ECB Digital Euro Report: Prototype Testing Set for 2025
ECB Digital Euro Prototype Testing Set for 2025The European Central Bank (ECB) has recently unveiled its second progress report on the development of the digital euro central bank digital currency (CBDC), signaling significant advancements...
After more than a year of postponement, Somalia holds its presidential election on Sunday
Somali parliamentarians are due to elect a new president on Sunday, May 15 in a poll expected for more than a year in this unstable country in the Horn of Africa, faced with the...
“La Rafle du Vel d’Hiv”, “Monterey”, “Corregidora”, “The Rare Bird”: our reading choices
THE MORNING LISTThis week, Laurent Joly, in a masterful study on the Vel d'Hiv roundup, restores in all its magnitude the horror of French collaboration with Nazism. In the field of fiction, the marginalized...
Microsoft Shareholders Vote on Bitcoin Investment Despite Board Opposition
Microsoft shareholders will soon be voting on a proposal to evaluate Bitcoin as a potential corporate investment at the upcoming annual meeting. The proposal, put forth by a shareholder advisory board, aims to assess...
Harvey Weinstein prosecuted in the UK on suspicion of sexual assault in 1996
Fallen Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein, whose crimes sparked the movementThe prosecution was authorized "following a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation", it added. According to a press...
Cardano Hydra Achieves 1 Million TPS in Virtual Doom Tournament
Cardano Hydra Sets Record with 1 Million TPS in Virtual Doom TournamentCardano’s Layer-2 protocol, Hydra, has made waves in the blockchain world by achieving an impressive milestone of surpassing 1 million transactions per second...
From the Renaissance to Kate Moss, shoulders freed from the yoke of their braces
To admire a bare shoulder or two, all you have to do is push open the door of any church or art gallery in Italy. Faced with the women and fashions of past centuries,...
Unlocking MegaLabs: Revolutionizing Real-Time Blockchain with $20M Investment
MegaLabs, the company behind a new Ethereum scaling protocol aiming to achieve real-time processing of transactions, has secured a $20 million investment in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. Other participants in the...
Bitcoin Price Surges Above $70K on Election Day: Crypto and Stocks Rally
Bitcoin has seen a significant surge in price, crossing back above $70,000 on Election Day in the United States. This represents a 2.4% increase over the past 24 hours. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index...
xAI Raises $6 Billion in Series C Funding with Top Investors
xAI Secures $6 Billion in Series C FundingIn a groundbreaking development, xAI, a renowned developer of advanced artificial intelligence systems, has successfully closed its Series C funding round, amassing an impressive $6 billion. The...
