Synonym Launches New Bitcoin Wallet App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYPfQIaowQ Synonym CEO John Carvalho announced a new bitcoin wallet app at Tether's Plan B conference. Synonym says it is...
Month: October 2022
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Has Busy Week Amid Potential Fraud, Consumer Data Protection Issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpHIF5dKYMw The consumer protection group Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) came into increased focus last week as its activity was...
Perseverance Rover Nearly Ready to Cache Samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehxGbYuwIU The Perseverance rover will cache about half the 14 rock cores that it has drilled as early as November....
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Demolishes Old Headquarters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtLqKa_5bY On October 29, 2022, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) demolished Building 4200, which served as the center’s headquarters...
Binance Now Owns Stake in Twitter, Will Help With Blockchain Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZWsJIF7kc Twitter has been taken private in a deal led by Elon Musk. Although he really created a lot of...
Data from Voyager Probes Challenge Models of Heliosphere’s Interaction With Interstellar Medium
The Voyager probes became the first two spacecraft from Earth to travel beyond the heliosphere and reach the interstellar medium....
NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Meteoroid Impact on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9C4yyqu3yI The ultra-sensitive instruments on NASA’s InSight lander detected a Magnitude 4 “marsquake” on Mars on December 4, 2021. Scientists...
Twitter Employees Quit Over Elon Musk’s Acquisition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_RApkCTkgo More than 1,100 Twitter employees have left the company since Elon Musk announced that he bought enough Twitter stock...
FTC Acts Against Drizly for Lax Cybersecurity Protocols
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against Drizly for lax cybersecurity protocols that led to the exposure of...
Edward Stone Retires After 50 Years on Voyager Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsJhvm7D_Q Edward Stone retired as the project scientist for the Voyager mission after 50 years in the role. He had...
New Scientific Instrument on ISS Captures Methane Emissions on Earth’s Surface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0GdlQkDXwE A scientific instrument installed on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) in July identified 50 methane “super...
Bank of America Downgrades Meta Over Spending on Broken Metaverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPThN_wrlJo Bank of America downgraded Meta (NASDAQ:META) from “buy” to “neutral” over ad spending and Meta’s high spending on metaverse...
Scientists Describe Conditions in Which Early Life Could Have Survived on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecq8QwKqLuY Could early life still exist on Mars? Some scientists say that, if life existed, it could have contributed to...
Auroras Punch Hole in Earth’s Ozone Layer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2u6v3qid1M Auroras punched a 250-mile-wide in the ozone in Earth's mesosphere, which resides 50 to 80 kilometers above Earth's surface....
Sanctions Force OneWeb to Find Alternative Launch Providers
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started, most of Europe and the United States slapped sanctions on Russia. This forced some...
Curiosity Finds Table Salt on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZl56tS9ko Going to Mars? Don’t forget to pack the saltshakers. The Curiosity rover has reached a region on Mount Sharp...
Two Newly Discovered Exoplanets Showcase Detail at Which Exoplanets Can Be Studied
Two newly discovered exoplanets demonstrate the detail at which planets orbiting other stars can be studied using instruments like the...
JWST Observes Early Galaxies Around Red Quasar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQo6nDES7Lk The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched in October 2021 and is already bouncing between sharper images of the...
Hodlnaut Wins Case Against Craig Wright in Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcYlnO-KMc Craig Wright has been filing lawsuits against many long-standing influential figures in the digital asset space in his quest...
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Image of “Pillars of Creation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__KBHIo_xs The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a new image of the “Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula,...
Scientists Develop Technique for Finding Dark Matter in Earth’s Atmosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2YqBegRxk Researchers at Ohio State University and University of Colorado Boulder published a study describing a way to track dark...
Lucy Probe to Make Close Flyby of Earth on October 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7SVOQA440 The Lucy probe will make an Earth flyby on October 16. It will be as close as 220 miles...
Washington State University Studies 3D Printing with Mars Regolith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJwmZcAV7YM Researchers at Washington State University published a paper with the results of a study on using Martian regolith for...
NSF Rejects Proposal to Rebuild Arecibo Observatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLDhTRX18A The National Scientific Foundation (NSF) will not rebuild Puerto Rico’s iconic Arecibo Observatory. Instead, it will build a STEM...
Lawmakers Question Texan Power Grid Manager’s Subsidies for Crypto Miners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mCfbxa3pBs Politicians and environmental activists seem to absolutely loathe Bitcoin, often citing the energy that gets used for bitcoin mining....
Google Selects Coinbase Commerce to Process Crypto Payments for Cloud Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnM1-zus1FY The Internet giant Alphabet, parent company of Google, selected Coinbase Commerce to integrate cryptocurrency payments for Google Cloud. This...
New Theory Says Early Martian Life Could Have Caused Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqhWIX2E7vg A new computer model generated by a team of scientists led by astrobiologist Boris Sauterey from France’s Institut de...
BNB Chain Launches Incubator for Web3 Companies
Binance's BNB Chain will host an incubator for European Web3 companies that are developing decentralized apps (dApps) on its blockchain....
Crypto.com Layoffs Worse than Previously Reported
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBC5TVdYT8 In February 2022, Crypto.com's "Fortune Favors the Brave" commercial became one of several crypto companies' ads that played during...
“Thor” Writer Ashley Edward Miller Joins Effort to Adapt Graphic Novel “The Gray Area” to Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKQz2DvvN5o Ashley Edward Miller, one of the writers behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe, joined efforts to adapt the graphic novel...
Iranian Blockchain Educator Arrested Amid Anti-Morality Police Protests
A friend of popular Iranian blockchain educator Ziya Sadr says he was arrested on the streets on September 19, 2022,...
About Capital Management to Acquire Majority Stake in Huobi Global
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAMCTLzFcw In August 2022, Huobi Global founder Leon Li was looking to unload his 60% stake for $1 billion. He...
Cooperation Between U.S., Brazil Cracks International Crypto Fraud Ring
An investigation by the United States’ Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brazilian Federal Police led to arrests in connection...
New Model Suggests Moon Formed Faster Than Previously Expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlhlCWplqk A new supercomputer model of the moon’s formation indicates that it could have formed within hours after a Mars-sized...
Space Advertising Might Be Commercially Viable (and Space Enthusiasts Hate It)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR40Ms_h1tA A recent feasibility study indicates that sending satellites into orbit to display advertising over major cities might be commercially...
Mars Orbiter Mission Ends Eight-Year Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81j98m5PHiM India lost contact with its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) after it ran out of fuel. The mission was originally...
Attacker Steals $570 Million in BNB Tokens in BNB Chain Exploit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Q-_nQGo58 Binance’s token bridge between the BNB Beacon Chain (BEP2) and BNB Smart Chain (BEP20 or BSC) became the latest...
Kim Kardashian Fined in Crypto Promotion Case
The SEC fined Kim Kardashian $1.26 million in a settlement of charges related to her promotion of EthereumMax. It alleges...
