The author paid a company, Renewable Recycling, to pick up and recycle his queen-size mattress in New York City. Greg Iacurci I paid $95 to recycle a mattress. It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can […]
Microsoft to allow autonomous AI agent development next month
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Microsoft will allow businesses to start making their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents starting next month, taking the fight back to Salesforce, which introduced its own configurable […]
King Charles heckled by Australian lawmaker: ‘You are not my king’
An Australian lawmaker was dragged away by security after heckling King Charles III during his visit to the country, yelling, “You are not my king!” Lidia Thorpe, an indigenous Australian independent senator who once called Queen Elizabeth II a colonizer during her swearing-in ceremony in 2022, went after King Charles on Monday inside the Great […]
In the Kentucky Mountains, a Bitcoin Mining Dream Turned Into a Nightmare
In both cases, Biofuel claims, the firms shipped equipment from China to its hosting facility in Eastern Kentucky, then walked away with the bitcoin produced, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid energy bills and hosting fees. Biofuel reached a settlement with Touzi in early 2022 for $60,000, but despite having handed back […]
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong backs Republican Senate candidates
Armstrong has endorsed pro-crypto Senate candidates, backing Republicans like John Deaton and David McCormick for their stance on digital asset policies.