For four weeks during 2021, this TechCrunch reporter took the plunge and tested a “metabolic fitness” service from Bangalore-based startup Ultrahuman. The tracker program, branded Cyborg, uses arm-mounted medical grade hardware to get a real-time read-out of your blood glucose — using that dynamic data-point to power a...
The Mozilla Foundation has put cryptocurrency donations on hold following a community backlash sparked by trenchant criticism from co-founder Jamie Zawinski.Last week the development company behind the Firefox browser tweeted an appeal for donations in cryptocurrency.But earlier today, Mozilla announced it had paused crypto donations due to the...
The global crypto market capitalization is currently hovering around $2 trillion, according to data from CoinMarketCap. However, Raoul Paul, one of the most vocal mouthpieces in the digital currency ecosystem, expects the market cap to top $250 trillion by the end of the decade.
The digital currency ecosystem has seen...
Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people. After all, the usefulness of things like mobility aids, health monitoring platforms and long-term financial...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has put his thinking cap on again in an attempt to improve the current fee structure for the network.The proposal titled “Multidimensional EIP-1559” was laid out in a blog post on Jan. 5 in which Buterin noted that different resources in the Ethereum Virtual...
Samsung Electronics America is really defining the scope of its metaverse ambitions as it has launched a new store dubbed the Samsung 837x on Decentraland, a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications.
The Samsung 837x store...
Major cryptocurrencies are currently enduring price declines from already depressed levels. It’s a selloff, though likely not one large enough to shake the confidence of the crypto faithful. Still, the impact of falling crypto prices on assets priced in crypto should prove interesting.
The NFT market, largely built on...
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a suit against Australian Craig Derel Sproule for the allegedly “fraudulent and unregistered” sale “of digital asset securities” in an Initial Coin Offering his company conducted in 2018.The SEC alleges in a Jan. 6 complaint that Sproule’s company,...
Today, Khosla Ventures said it raised over $550 million for its first Opportunity Fund.
Samir Kaul, managing partner, Khosla Ventures. Image Credits: Khosla Ventures
The new oversubscribed fund brings Khosla’s total set of funds to just under $2 billion. Managing partner Samir Kaul told TechCrunch that the fund gives the...
