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Garmin’s New Solar-Powered Watch Promises 70-Day Battery Life
Garmin wants to make charging your watch nearly a thing of the past. The fitness watch maker on Tuesday announced the Instinct Crossover, a hybrid watch that promises to provide up to 70 days of battery life if you purchase the solar-powered edition. That’s significantly longer than the one- to... Read more
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 3: Alpha Male
CHAPTER 6 RAWMEO By March 2017, the always aggressive Fresno prosecutor Grant Rabenn was ready to charge Alexandre Cazes with running AlphaBay. But his more cautious colleague Paul Hemesath wanted more evidence. They were still busy filing subpoenas for not only Cazes’ cryptocurrency exchange accounts but all of his... Read more
Nintendo shaves its Switch console forecast by 10%
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit Next 2022? All sessions are now available for viewing in our on-demand library. Click here to start watching. Wary of the downturn and a chip shortage, Nintendo cut back its forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million for... Read more
Nvidia Says New Advanced Chip for China Meets US Export Rules
Chipmaker Nvidia has developed a new advanced chip for China that adheres to new US control export rules aimed at restricting that country’s access to AI technology. The chip, known as the A800, is an alternative to the A100 chip that went into production in the third quarter, Nvidia... Read more
The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on US voting infrastructure has come from inside the house. Violent domestic threats against election officials have soared around the country in the past couple of years, endangering workers and,... Read more
League of Legends Worlds 2022 peaks at 5.15M viewers
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit Next 2022? All sessions are now available for viewing in our on-demand library. Click here to start watching. Over the weekend, fans watched DRX overcome the odds to win the League of Legends Worlds 2022 championship and set viewership records. The... Read more
Hacker took pains to hide $3.36B of stolen bitcoin. Feds found it anyway
Enlarge / Bitcoin laundering concept vector illustration. Federal prosecutors have recovered $3.36 billion in bitcoin that was stolen a decade ago from Silk Road, the dark web bazaar responsible for distributing massive quantities of illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to people worldwide. Last November, federal agents... Read more
Cargo Craft Bound for Space Station Troubled By Unusual Glitch
Northrop Grumman’s NG-18 Cygnus space freighter is loaded up with 4 tons of hardware, crew supplies and research equipment destined for the International Space Station. It launched from Virginia on Monday morning, but it hasn’t been smooth sailing as Cygnus aims to reach the ISS on Wednesday. Only one... Read more
How to ‘Quiet Quit’ Elon Musk’s Twitter
And for the love of God, don’t blindly take voting advice from Elon Musk. Take a Walk on the Decentralized Side Twitter may be much smaller than other social media sites, but it plays an outsize role in public discourse. It’s centralized: You log in and are torpedoed into... Read more
How fintech tokenization empowers users and boosts innovation (VB On-Demand)
Presented by Envestnet | Yodlee Account tokens are a highly secure way to retrieve, verify, manage and maintain financial data. In this on-demand webinar, learn how these tokens help payment processors prevent financial fraud, mitigate transactional risks, simplify data sharing and more. Watch free on-demand! Returns, breaches, fraud and... Read more