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Researchers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest recently delivered a piece of assistive technology whose design began with a simple but important question: What will the person using this tech need?Last month a team of engineers and occupational therapists from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. delivered a learning station they’d designed for a first grader with cerebral palsy.David Schipf, assistant professor of engineering and physics at Whitworth, says the project’s success was due to the collaborative efforts between team members—engineers, physical therapists, and occupational therapists—and the child and his family. After multiple consultations with the family, the Whitworth team delivered their…

Tether Investments has jumped into a $39 million Series A funding round for Pave Bank, a company trying to merge traditional banking with digital assets. The round was led by Accel, with support from Wintermute, Quona Capital, and Helios Digital Ventures. The fresh funds are expected to help Pave Bank grow its global presence, speed up its product pipeline, and bring more institutional clients on board. A Bank That Talks to Both Worlds Pave Bank calls itself a “programmable” commercial bank, meaning it’s built for businesses that deal with both fiat currencies and digital assets. It’s not just a catchy…

Is the Google Search for internal enterprise knowledge finally here…but from OpenAI? It certainly seems that way. Today, OpenAI has launched company knowledge in ChatGPT, a major new capability for subscribers to ChatGPT's paid Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans that lets them call up their company's data directly from third-party workplace apps including Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, HubSpot and combine it in ChatGPT outputs to them. As OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo put it in a post on the social network X: "it brings all the context from your apps (Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, etc) together in…

XRP hovers at $2.41 as MACD and SRSI flash bullish signs. Whale outflows rise, but traders eye $5 upside if support holds. XRP is trading around $2.41, up slightly over the past 24 hours. While the price remains within a defined range, recent signals from several market watchers suggest a possible shift in direction. However, the likelihood of a correction appears firmer at the moment. Technical Setup Suggests Room for Upside XRP continues to move within an ascending channel that has held since late 2024. According to ChartNerd, the asset is currently testing support at the lower end of…

In my quest to find the best solution for Cake Wallet to offer user-friendly, non-custodial Lightning to our users, I’ve gone deep down the rabbit hole of both Spark and Ark. Both are quite novel approaches to Bitcoin layer two networks, and are designed at their core to be interoperable with the broader Bitcoin network for payments via the Lightning Network. While both can be used “just” for Lightning payments, both networks are positioned to rapidly expand and be used for far more than that over the coming months and years. One thing to keep in mind is that while…

Key points:Bitcoin bulls are attempting to sustain the price above $107,000, but the bears have continued to exert selling pressure.The recovery in most major altcoins has fizzled out, indicating that the bears continue to sell on minor rallies.Buyers have managed to keep Bitcoin (BTC) above the vital $107,000 support level, but the lack of a solid rebound suggests that the bears have maintained their pressure. The short-term uncertainty has divided the analysts on BTC’s next directional move. Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, told Cointelegraph that BTC remains on track to hit $200,000 by the end of…

Hall of Fame basketball player Carmelo Anthony said Thursday, in the wake of bombshell indictments detailing illegal NBA betting, that the rapid rise of sports gambling is putting growing pressure on today’s athletes.Speaking with CNBC Sport, the former New York Knicks star said the betting culture “mentally affects” players.”They may say they don’t care … but they care about it, because it affects them,” he said. On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were separately arrested following investigations into alleged insider bets on basketball games. Anthony was not…

After President Trump pardoned CZ this morning, World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token jumped over 14%. Although the former Binance CEO seems unrelated to this Trump family venture, the rally highlights key dynamics. In essence, all these parties have become intertwined and formed a symbiotic relationship. On paper, Binance and the US President’s crypto empire can benefit from each other’s success.Sponsored Binance and Trump ExplainedThis morning, the crypto space was rocked by President Trump’s decision to pardon CZ, the former CEO of Binance. Since his former organization and the Trump family’s business interests are thoroughly entangled, this has raised community fears…

May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives believe artificial intelligence is actively damaging their organizations — and placing the blame squarely on leadership's shoulders.The problem, according to Habib, isn't the technology. It's that business leaders are making a category error, treating AI transformation like previous technology rollouts and delegating it to IT departments. This approach, she warned, has led to "billions of dollars spent on AI initiatives that are going nowhere.""Earlier this year, we…

Moon Inc. (HKEX: 1723) has raised about US$8.8 million to launch a Bitcoin prepaid card in Thailand and South Korea, with plans to expand across Asia. The company, a leader in prepaid connectivity and digital asset solutions, confirmed the successful HK$65.5 million fundraising earlier today. The round was supported by a consortium of Bitcoin miners and investors through the issuance of new shares and convertible notes, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine.  “The successful completion of this private placement marks another critical milestone in Moon Inc.’s growth, and we are grateful for the confidence our new and existing…