The guy who accidentally threw away $700 million in Bitcoin wants to buy a landfill to find it

James Howells, a British IT worker, mined over 7,500 Bitcoins back in 2009, when they were

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Kickstarter is rolling out new tools for backers, including a way to split pledges into four payments

Kickstarter just unveiled a bunch of new tools for backers and creators. The most notable of the bunch is called Pledge Over Time and, well, it’s exactly what it sounds like. The tool allows backers to split a pledge into four payments that get pulled from a bank account every two weeks. It’s sort of like Affirm or Klarna.

This feature should also help creators, as it’ll entice more backers to buy into a campaign. It’s available right now, but only to select campaigns. Pledge Over Time

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Get six months of Apple Music for just $3

If you’re currently in the market for a music-streaming subscription, have we got a deal for you. Pick up six months of Apple Music for just $3. That’s no

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Google adopts Gulf of America for US Maps users

Google Maps now officially shows the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America if you open the app in the US. In a blog post, Google said it rolled out the named change because the government has already updated the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which d

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Man from Alabama pleads guilty over SEC's fake bitcoin post on X

Eric Council Jr. from Alabama has pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator in the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Twitter account last year. In early January 2024, SEC's official X account

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More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile

YouTube has officially been around for two decades and a lot has changed over the years — including how people watch it. Now, a new report from YouTube claims TV has overtaken mobile to become the primary device for viewing content in the US. 

Yes, despite the tremendous push to smart phones, TVs, with their big screens

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The Ninja Swirl by Creami is conquering the hardest type of ice cream to make at home

When it launched a couple of years back, the Ninja Creami became a viral sensation by making it easy to turn almost anything into a tasty frozen treat. However, there was still one thing it couldn’t do: a classic soft serve, like the kind you dream about on hot summer days. But Ninja has made it its goal to change that by launching the

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EU will put over $200 billion toward AI development

This week is the AI Action Summit in Paris and the European Union is using it as an opportunity to deep dive into the growing sector. The bloc has announced it's putting €200 billion ($206 billion) toward AI development. This number includes €20 billion ($20.6 billion) for AI gigafactories that process and train large models. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen an

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The Sky Glass Gen 2 offers a brighter display and better sound

Sky Glass, an all-in-one TV with a six-speaker sound bar and 4K Quantum Dot Display, came out in late 2021. Now the system is getting its successor: the Sky Glass Gen 2. One of the biggest improvements is sound quality, with a seven-spe

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