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AI in the APAC retail sector is transitioning from analytics and pilots into workflows and daily operations.Dense urban stores, high labour churn, and competitive quick-commerce ecosystems are driving the uptake. A Q4 2025 survey by GlobalData found that 45 percent of consumers in Asia and Australasia are very or quite likely to purchase a product based on AI recommendations or endorsements.Jaya Dandey, Consumer Analyst at GlobalData, said: “Whether shoppers realise it or not, machine-learning systems have long been deciding when to encourage consumers to make purchases, which products they can see, and what discounts they can avail.“Now, agentic systems can…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin hashing power pushed the difficulty up about 15% to a little past 144 trillion on Friday, based on data from CoinWarz. That move reversed an earlier drop of 10% that followed widespread outages in parts of the US. The numbers are blunt: machines went quiet during extreme weather, then came back online, and the protocol rebalanced itself. Winter Outages And The Bounce Back Foundry USA’s pool saw a dramatic swing in computing power, falling near 198 EH/s before climbing from roughly 400 EH/s. Reports say that…

Data from Santiment shows new wallet creation rising even as prices slump, hinting network curiosity hasn’t faded with sentiment yet. The price of Solana’s native SOL token is near $84, after a steep, multi-month slide that erased nearly 67% from its September 2025 all-time high, with new on-chain data and community debates pointing to a network under strain. The mixed signals matter because they show a split between falling market sentiment and activity metrics that suggest users have not abandoned the chain. Security Patch Delays and Infrastructure Concerns A February 19 report from Santiment noted that a significant source of…

The Aptos Foundation is proposing a significant shake-up to the dynamics of the Aptos token, announcing a range of potential policy changes designed to spur greater APT deflation.  In an X post on Wednesday, the Aptos Foundation said it would submit several governance proposals to help transition the ecosystem away from its current subsidy-based emissions model toward a focus on “performance-driven mechanisms” and reducing APT supply. “The Aptos network is transitioning to performance-driven tokenomics designed to align supply mechanics with network utilization,” the Aptos Foundation said, adding:“This update replaces bootstrap-era subsidy with mechanisms tied to transaction activity, establishing a framework where burns…

On-chain analytics firm Parsec is closing down after five years, as crypto trader flows and on-chain activity no longer resemble what they once did. “Parsec is shutting down,” the company said in an X post on Thursday, while its CEO, Will Sheehan, said the “market zigged while we zagged a few too many times.”Sheehan added that Parsec’s primary focus on decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) fell out of step with where the industry has now headed.“Post FTX DeFi spot lending leverage never really came back in the same way, it changed, morphed into something we understood less,” he said,…

$56.9M have exited Arbitrum, pressuring ARB near key support levels. Arbitrum Network activity remains steady despite the token price decline. Critical levels to watch are the support around $0.093–$0.095 and the resistance around $0.100–$0.105. Arbitrum has found itself under renewed pressure after a sharp wave of capital outflows unsettled market confidence. In the last 24 hours, roughly $56.9 million exited the Arbitrum ecosystem, according to Artemis, raising concerns about whether the recent attempt at a price rebound can survive. Arbitrum capital outflow | Source: Artemis Arbitrum capital outflow against ARB’s price decline The outflow comes at a time when ARB…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos!So, humanoid robots are nearing peak human performance. I would point out, though, that this is likely very far from peak robot performance, which has yet to be effectively exploited, because it requires more than just copying humans.[ Unitree ]“The Street Dance of China” Turning lightness into gravity, and rhythm into impact.This is a…

Something interesting is happening with XRP crypto. Roughly 200M tokens have just flowed off Binance, pushing the exchange supply ratio noticeably lower. That kind of movement does not usually come from small retail accounts. When coins leave major exchanges, it often means one thing. They are moving into private wallets, not sitting there ready to be sold. Market Cap 24h 7d 30d 1y All Time DISCOVER: Top 20 Crypto to Buy in 2026 On-Chain Data Reveals Shifting Supply Dynamics The XRP supply ratio on Binance just slipped from 0.027 to 0.025 in about ten days. That equals roughly 200M XRP…

The industry’s largest cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), are enduring one of their most difficult openings to a year on record, according to a recent analysis by Fortune, with both digital assets trading sharply below their previous peaks. Bitcoin is currently down roughly 46% from its all-time high, while Ethereum has fallen about 60% from its record level. The steep declines mark what the publication describes as historically poor year-to-date performances for the assets.  Bitcoin, Ethereum Lag While S&P 500, Gold Post Gains While Bitcoin and Ethereum, along with broader crypto prices, have often moved in tandem with equities…

Key points:Bitcoin bulls are struggling to sustain the intraday rallies, indicating that every minor rise is being sold into.Select major altcoins are showing weakness, signaling a drop to their strong support levels.Bitcoin (BTC) bulls pushed the price above $68,300 but are struggling to maintain the higher levels. BTC is likely to record its fifth consecutive red monthly candle in the absence of a major rally in the next few days. That is the longest losing streak since 2018/19 when BTC fell for six successive months. A minor positive for the bulls is that the losing streak in 2018/19 was followed…