Bitcoin breaks through $60,000 again – but will it hold? April 10, 2021 Bitcoin punched through $60,000 once again after topsy-turvy couple of weeks saw the flagship cryptocurrency rising and falling between $52,000 and $59,000.
Kanye West, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates tipped to be next big names in Bitcoin April 9, 2021 Rapper Kanye West has been tipped as the next celebrity to invest heavily into Bitcoin, with one odds maker putting Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband at 2/1 to buy at least $100m of the cryptocurrency.
Elon Musk claims Neuralink could ‘enable paraplegics to walk again’ April 9, 2021 Elon Musk has shared a video of a monkey using his Neuralink this morning, which showed it playing a video game with computer chips in its mind. Neuralink has begun developing an implanted, wireless brain-machine interface (BMI) which could aid people with paralysis to use their brain activity to operate computers. “First Neuralink product will [...]
Screenshot: Can cinemas bring Brits back to the big screen? April 9, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: Every dog has its day **Can cinemas bring Brits back to the big screen? **Is Clubhouse really worth $4bn? Media Moment of the Week: Every dog has its day Doing a live piece to camera comes with risks, as any broadcast journalist will tell you. But one thing [...]
Twitter held discussions for $4bn takeover of Clubhouse April 7, 2021 Twitter in recent months held talks to acquire Clubhouse, with the two companies discussing a potential $4bn valuation for the buzzy, audio-based social media app. Discussions are no longer ongoing and it is unclear why they ended, Bloomberg first reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Twitter declined to comment on the report. Clubhouse launched [...]
The Accelerating Competition in the Bionic Hand Industry April 7, 2021 The Emergence of Lower-Cost Devices If you wanted to purchase a multi-articulating bionic hand in 2015, you would have had only a few mainstream options, all costing between $35,000 and $70,000 US for a complete solution. Roll forward six years and at BionicsForEveryone.com we now list 14 bionic hands from 13 companies on our website, with another [...]
Singled out: This year’s billionaire Brits April 7, 2021 Forbes released its highly anticipated billionaire list yesterday morning which has left regular folks pinching purse strings in hopes to add another zero to their bank accounts. The UK’s home-grown billionaires did not make it into the lucrative top 10, which was dominated by tech big dogs: Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon [...]
Virgin Media boss Schuler to lead £31bn tie-up with Telefonica’s O2 April 7, 2021 Virgin Media chief executive Lutz Schuler will lead the firm that results from their mega-merger with Telefonica’s O2. Schuler was confirmed in the role late last night. Schuler joined Virgin Media in 2018 as Chief Operating Officer and had been CEO since June 2019. O2’s Patricia Cobian will become chief financial officer of the combined [...]
Tesla shares surge as electric carmaker’s deliveries beat estimates April 5, 2021 Shares of Tesla accelerated eight per cent in pre-market trading today, after the world’s most valuable carmaker posted record deliveries as a solid demand for its electric cars offset the impact of a global shortage of chips. The electric-car maker said on Friday it was encouraged by the strong reception of its Model Y crossover [...]
Satoshi Nakamoto is secretly funding Elon Musk by yield farming using Aave April 1, 2021 Just kidding! But, on a serious note, Bitcoin is showing positive signs as April is already shaping up nicely for cryptocurrency.