Mike Colyer leads one of North America’s biggest crypto mining companies, Foundry. Owned by Digital Currency Group (CoinDesk’s parent company), the startup emerged in 2019 and has quickly come to exemplify a trend: the comeback of U.S. crypto mining after years of living in the shadows of China’s greater hash power.  We caught up with Colyer for a preview of his thoughts on the China vs. U.S. rivalry in bitcoin mining, institutional adoption and the controversial concept of “clean… Source link

James Martin/CNET Google I/O kicks off today, and even though it’s a developers conference,… Source link

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan has begun providing to clients, and even its rivals, a free service that uses artificial intelligence to determine if comments posted in Japanese on online forums are appropriate to its clients. The service will then allow the client companies to delete the posts or warn writers if they are deemed to be defamatory. Three companies, including social media-based news website NewsPicks, are the first since Yahoo launched the service in September to adopt the… Source link

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan, owned by Z Holdings, has begun providing a free artificial intelligence technology to clients, including its rivals, that can assess instantly if comments posted in Japanese on online forums are appropriate. Three companies, including social media-based news website NewsPicks, have adopted the cutting-edge technology that analyzes within a second comments that are posted online. The technology can also be applied by companies to take action to delete inappropriate… Source link

Bitcoin’s bull market correction may be coming to an end, according to the relative strength index (RSI) – a technical indicator widely used to gauge momentum and identify overbought and oversold conditions. The 14-week RSI has now dropped to 53.00, a level that has consistently acted as solid support and marked an end of corrective pullbacks during the 2016-2017 bull run. The RSI support has come into play as bitcoin charted a 35% drop from $64,801 to $42,000 in the past four weeks. While… Source link

(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday unveiled updates across many services, including Maps, Photos and operating systems, as the company showcases its role in a world that has become more digitally connected during the pandemic. The announcements during the virtually-held Google I/O developer conference add up to a boost for the company’s smartwatch efforts, which compete with Apple Inc , and for its collaboration tools that rival offerings from Microsoft Corp. They also show how… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, May 18, 2021 The stock market is entering a new phase Investors right now are faced with a simple question: how much?  How much do they want to pay for earnings growth that continues to blow away expectations but might also be peaking.  Back in early April, my Morning Brief collaborator Sam Ro highlighted the most important chart for… Source link

Bloomberg AT&T’s WarnerMedia, Discovery to Merge in Blockbuster Deal (Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. agreed to spin off its media operations in a deal with Discovery Inc. that will create a new entertainment company, merging assets ranging from CNN and HBO to HGTV and the Food Network.The transaction values the combined entity at about $130 billion including debt, based on WarnerMedia’s estimated enterprise value of more than $90 billion.AT&T will receive $43 billion in cash, debt securities and… Source link

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding at Least 8%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Dividend stocks are always popular. They offer investors a clear path to returns, with regular cash payments and a yield – a return on the original investment – that usually far exceeds bond yields. But not all dividend stocks are created equal, and some offer better opportunities than others. Dividend yield is a key metric. Among S&P listed companies the average yield is only 2%. However, the highest yields… Source link

Tech giant to remove video apps from Play Store illegally streaming Italian soccer’s top flight. Posted: May 18 2021 By: Ed Dixon Getty Images Partnership will lead to “a level of protection unique in the world”, says Lega Serie A CEO Recent study from Synamedia and Ampere found that sports rights holders are missing out on US$28.3bn per year due to piracy Italian soccer’s Serie A has stepped up its fight against online piracy by agreeing a deal with Google that will see the technology… Source link