Month: February 2025
US Restores ‘Full USD Services’ on Binance
In June 2023, Binance.US stopped accepting and processing fiat-based deposits and withdrawals. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), the company claimed that it had been impacted by “aggressive and intimidating tactics” at the Securities and Exchange Commission.Binance.US isolated itself from U.S. banks days after the SEC initiated a lawsuit against the exchange,
Superhuman introduces AI-powered E-mail categorization to reduce spams
While an email client automatically replying to emails is a long way out, categorization is an annoying pain point that could be solved today. And the promised new label feature looks useful as long as it accurately places emails into different buckets.Google was one of the first companies that focused on putting emails into different
Malaysia bets on Data centers for economic growth
Data centers are large, windowless buildings filled with racks of computers that need lots of electricity. To prevent overheating, they rely on energy-intensive air conditioning systems using pumped water. Increasingly used by tech companies for running artificial intelligence systems, the power demand from future facilities in Malaysia may rise to over 5 gigawatts by 2035.
Positive Market sentiments as Russia-Ukraine war shows a sign of coming to an end
President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s phone call last week, followed by the first meeting between US and Russian officials since 2022, have some investors optimistic about ending Russia’s war with Ukraine. From the rise of the Russian ruble to shifting odds on betting markets, a potential resolution to the nearly three-year-old conflict
Microsoft Digital Infrastructure investment in Poland
In 2020, Microsoft launched the first cloud computing region in Poland, building three independent data centers and investing $1billion in the project. Between 2020 and 2023, Microsoft also trained 430,000 Polish citizens in digital skills, and has committed to training 1 million Polish teachers, information workers, software developers, with the ‘skills and capabilities to help
World’s largest ‘mega’ data center in South Korea
Construction for the world’s largest data center has been given the go-ahead in South Korea, and is predicted to bring in an initial revenue of $3.5 billion – with an initial project size of $10 billion and the potential to reach $35 billion.The project was co-founded by LG Electronics heir Brian Koo and Dr. Amin
xAI launches Grok 3 AI
The Grok 3 mini model can answer questions quickly, but it’s not as accurate as the other models in the family. Meanwhile, the Grok 3 Reasoning and Grok 3 mini Reasoning models are capable of mimicking human-like reasoning when it comes to analyzing information the user needs. Other examples of AI models capable of reasoning
Pope Francis Health
The 88-year-old pontiff has been suffering from a respiratory infection for more than a week and was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on February 14. All public events on the pope’s calendar were cancelled through Sunday, the Vatican said in a brief statement. Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital for what
British couple accused of working for western intelligence charged with espionage in Iran
Iranian authorities have charged a British couple recently arrested in the country with espionage, accusing the pair of having links to Western intelligence services. The two are currently being held in Kerman, a city and province in Iran’s south-east, the family said in a statement that was issued by the British foreign ministry. Britain’s Foreign
The Launch of Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX plans to send a Falcon 9 rocket and several Starlink satellites into orbit on Tuesday, Feb. 18. And depending on weather and visibility, there could be a show in the sky above the Space Coast.Weather permitting and depending on cloud cover, rocket launches from the Space Coast could be visible from almost every part