Visa supports transaction settlement with USDC stablecoin
Payment card network Visa has announced that transactions can be settled using USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Crypto.com is the first company to test the new capability with its own Visa-branded cards. USDC is a sta.....»»
Apple, Visa, Mastercard face lawsuit over high merchant fees
Apple has been named in a proposed class-action lawsuit alongside Mastercard and Visa, over claims of conspiracy to cut competition and make merchants pay higher fees for credit and debit card transactions.Apple PayFiled on Thursday at the East St. L.....»»
Visa Provisioning Intelligence predicts probability of token fraud
Visa launched Visa Provisioning Intelligence (VPI), an AI-based product designed to combat token fraud at its source. Available as a value-added service for clients, VPI uses machine learning to rate the likelihood of fraud for token provisioning req.....»»
Pixelmator Pro 3.5 update adds HDR image and video editing support
Pixelmator Pro now supports editing HDR photos and videos with layer management and color adjustments in its easy-to-use interface.Pixelmator Pro 3.5 adds full HDR support | Image Credit: PixelmatorPixelmator Pro 3.5 has launched with HDR support to.....»»
After losing everywhere else, Elon Musk asks SCOTUS to get SEC off his back
Musk's last-ditch effort to terminate settlement over "funding secured" tweets. Enlarge / Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | WPA Pool ).....»»
Against the Storm feels like WarCraft without the war, and it’s weirdly calming
Build a town, direct its workers, and be weirdly tranquil as it washes away. Enlarge / I'd like to pretend I'd built a settlement this neatly compact and organized—with street grids, even—but alas, this is a provided screensh.....»»
US regulators will now have access to years of Binance transaction data
Binance and its customers will get "24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy." Enlarge (credit: Wired/Getty) One attraction of Binance, as the company grew from its 2017 founding into the biggest cryptocurrency exchan.....»»
Openlane plans to buy Manheim Canada in $95M transaction
Openlane CEO Peter Kelly said Openlane will retain about 100 Manheim Canada employees as part of the proposed transaction......»»
Neptune-sized exoplanet is too big for its host star
Stars this small shouldn't make planets this big. Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) You win some, you lose some. Earlier this week, observations made by the Webb Space Telescope provided new data that supports what we t.....»»
Cable Transaction Assurance enhances the efficacy of front-line financial crime controls
Cable launched Transaction Assurance, pioneering a new wave of financial crime compliance and transaction testing. “In recent years, we’ve witnessed a surge in compliance lapses, highlighted by billions in fines levied against major instituti.....»»
Who supports Putin? Men, older generations and traditionalists, study shows
An international team of researchers has released an exhaustive look at support for Russia's autocratic President Vladimir Putin across several neighboring countries......»»
Business metrics for Cisco Cloud Observability capability enables customers to protect revenue
Cisco announced new business metrics in Cisco Cloud Observability. Powered by the Cisco Observability Platform to enhance business context for modern applications running on AWS. This latest release also supports integration with AWS services and app.....»»
Supply-chain reports supports half-price 2nd-gen Vision Pro headset in 2025
Bloomberg last month reported that Apple is working on a 2nd-gen Vision Pro headset which could reduce the price by around half, and that is today backed by a new supply-chain report. The report says that the company is currently working on no few.....»»
Bay Area scientist with bees in his bonnet gives Gov. Newsom a buzz in his ear
Among the presidents of nations, high-profile dignitaries, and leaders of household-name companies like Visa, ExxonMobil and Microsoft who descended on San Francisco last week to speak at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation events was a Santa Cruz comp.....»»
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams
Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival. Enlarge (credit: Penguin Random House) Let me start with the TLDR for A City on Mars. It is, essentially, 400 pages of "well, actually…,".....»»
Judge rejects Elon Musk’s attempt to kill Twitter/FTC privacy settlement
Court cannot grant X Corp.'s flawed legal motion, magistrate judge rules. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bet_Noire) Elon Musk lost an attempt to avoid a deposition and terminate a privacy settlement that Twitter agreed.....»»
Wireshark 4.2.0 released, open-source packet analysis gets even better
Wireshark, the popular network protocol analyzer, has reached version 4.2.0. Wireshark 4.2.0: Notable changes Wireshark supports dark mode on Windows. Packet list sorting has been improved. Wireshark and TShark are now better about generating valid U.....»»
GM quietly snatches key Tesla gigacasting supplier
TEI is now part of General Motors after agreeing to a deal that may have flown under the radar but is a key part of the U.S. automaker's strategy to make up ground on Tesla, four people familiar with the transaction told Reuters......»»
Adobe now supports RAW images taken with Google’s Pixel 8 cameras
Adobe has announced RAW support for photos taken by Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones. The post Adobe now supports RAW images taken with Google’s Pixel 8 cameras appeared first on Phandroid. A lot of smartphones have the abi.....»»
Poll finds British public largely supports strong climate policies
The UK's Tory government is rolling back climate legislation and is continuing to fund the expansion of domestic oil and gas reserves. Our new research suggests this might be based on a misreading of public opinion......»»
The TP-Link Tapo C120 is an affordable security camera designed for all environments
The TP-Link Tapo C120 costs $40, offers 2K video capture, and supports microSD cards. Here's a closer look at the indoor/outdoor camera......»»