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Google Cloud also said Flare has become part of the Google for Startups Program, which aims to accelerate the growth of Web3 startups. Google Cloud, the cloud computing and data storage unit of the technology giant Google, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Flare blockchain to join the network as a validator. The cloud unit has become the latest corporate institution to join the growing list of validators on Flare, verifying blocks, confirming transactions, and proposing new...

In terms of regional search, Google Trends revealed that countries such as Spain and the Philippines took the lead. People in these nations recorded more users searching for the term Solana than Ethereum.  In 2023, searches on Google for “Solana” surpassed those for “Ethereum” for the first time since the launch of both cryptocurrencies in 2020 and 2015, respectively. The move comes after the digital asset flipped XRP as the fifth largest crypto in the world, according to market...

AI has overtaken crypto in Google searches for the first time since 2020. This is credited to the rise of generative AIs like ChatGPT and the crypto winter. As 2023 is rolling to a close, the industry as a whole is looking back on the year and taking stock of how it performed. One way we’ve done this in the past is by looking at Google search trends. As the biggest search engine on the planet, Google gives us insight into what was popular in a given year. This year, it seems that...

Wallet drainers are a type of scam that generally operates by cloning a legitimate website, fooling the target into providing their crypto wallet credentials, and then executing a smart contract that sends the users’ funds to bad actors. 🚨1/ Alert: A ‘Wallet Drainer’ has been linked to phishing campaigns on Google search and X ads, draining approximately $58M from over 63K victims in 9 months. pic.twitter.com/ye3ob2uTtz — Scam Sniffer | Web3 Anti-Scam (@realScamSniffer)...

The launch of Immutable Passport comes shortly after the company introduced a new gaming solution that allows developers to build games that eliminate transaction fees. Blockchain gaming developer Immutable has announced the official release of its new wallet infrastructure, named Immutable Passport. In a recent announcement, the company revealed that Passport is an innovative universal sign-on and wallet solution designed to streamline player access to online games and marketplaces....

As Bitcoin emerges as the top-performing asset in 2023, it has garnered endorsement from major Wall Street players such as BlackRock, who are actively working to integrate cryptocurrencies into the financial mainstream. This indicates that the extended Crypto Winter has indeed come to an end, but it seems that retail participants are falling behind. Retail Participation Lacking Bitcoin’s recent price action to the upside helped it cross back into the top 10 largest assets by...

Despite the market slowdown, OpenAI continues with aggressive hiring by strategically leveraging the growing interest in AI technology. OpenAI is said to be presenting substantial compensation packages, reaching as high as $10 million, to entice top researchers away from Google, as per a report from The Information. This marks OpenAI’s ongoing efforts to recruit talent from Google’s ranks, with a focus on senior researchers in Google’s AI teams. The proposed annual compensation, largely...

Space and Time, a data warehousing player, announced that it will enable its novel zero-knowledge (ZK) proof for SQL operations to work with Google Cloud’s warehouse, BigQuery. Dubbed ‘Proof of SQL,’ Space and Time’s new ZK protocol, will enable developers leveraging BigQuery to cryptographically confirm query results were computed accurately and on untampered data. BitQuery is the latest to incorporate the ZK-proof technology while citing that the end goal is to establish...

The deployment of the 24,000 chips should be completed by February 2024. Voltage Park, a nonprofit organization founded by billionaire Jed McCaleb, has acquired approximately 24,000 Nvidia H100 chips for approximately $500 million. According to The Business Time, the organization plans to lease AI computing power at a low cost to address the shortage of these chips. Eric Park, CEO of Voltage, stated: “The current ecosystem for machine learning is fundamentally flawed.” Therefore, the...

Xiaomi’s founder and chairman of the board Lei Jun said it took approximately 5000 software engineers’ combined efforts to develop the new operating system. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has announced the launch of its cutting-edge operating system HyperOS after five years of dedicated hard work and research. The new OS, unveiled Thursday during the company’s launch event theme “Leap Beyond the Moment”, will debut alongside Xiaomi’s upcoming range of smartphones, wearables, and TV sets...