Month: April 2021
Tesla holds $2.48 billion of Bitcoin Bitcoin
US automaker Tesla purchased $1.5bn worth of Bitcoin at the beginning of this year and the company’s investment already looks to be paying off as it now holds $2.48bn of the cryptocurrency. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) back in January of this year, the…
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Google updates latest Chromecast with more HDR controls and improved Wi-Fi performance
Google is rolling out a new April update for the Chromecast with Google TV that launched last year. It’s a fairly large update for a streaming device — totaling 166MB on my Chromecast — but includes numerous improvements. Once you’ve installed the new software and restarted your Chromecast, you’ll be…
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Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart looks gorgeous in new PS5 gameplay, photo mode confirmed Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Today, Sony held another State of Play presentation, this time primarily focused on Insomniac Games’ upcoming PS5 exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. The gameplay footage showed off some of Ratchet’s new moves, such as his dash and wallrunning capabilities, as well as gameplay of the newly-introduced Rivet, a female…
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Watch Dexter creepily smile again in the first teaser trailer for his new Showtime series
Years ago, my Verge colleagues convinced me that Dexter got so bad, it’d be a waste of my time to see my favorite TV serial killer reach the end of his story — so when I tell you that Dexter’s coming back this fall, picking up right where the show…
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The math isn’t adding up on forests and CO2 reductions
More evidence surfaced this week that shows that forests are struggling to do humans’ dirty work when it comes to climate change. Although companies and countries are increasingly relying on forests to draw down their planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions, the math isn’t adding up to show big benefits. California might…
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Feds arrest founder of bitcoin ‘mixer’ they say laundered $335 million over ten years
The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds. Bitcoin Fog…
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