CANNES — Ten years ago, Vitalik Buterin and a small band of developers huddled in a drafty Berlin loft strung with dangling lightbulbs, laptops balanced on mismatched chairs and chipped tables. They weren’t corporate titans or venture-backed founders — just idealists working long nights to push a radical idea into reality. From that sparse office, […]
Jessica Simpson opens up about heartbreak from Eric Johnson divorce
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jessica Simpson is not sugarcoating her heartbreak. Simpson, 45, opened up about her unexpected split from Eric Johnson after 10 years of marriage. Although the “Irresistible” singer revealed that the separation wasn’t something she saw coming, Simpson didn’t shy away from acknowledging that both she and Johnson […]
WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode
Louise Matsakis: I got to say, I think calling this a migration is maybe underselling it. This is an evacuation, no? I find this sad in a lot of ways just because I remember when Tuvalu was kind of the poster child for climate change, and it was like, we have to save places like […]
How Curve Finance is Solving Impermanent Loss
Yield Basis, a protocol developed by the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Curve Finance, mitigates impermanent loss for tokenized Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) liquidity providers (LPs), while also creating a market-based approach to token inflation and emissions, according to Curve founder Dr. Michael Egorov. Impermanent loss in crypto occurs when the price of assets deposited […]
Why the U.S. job market has soured
Ozgur Donmaz | Photodisc | Getty Images The U.S. job market has been showing signs of a gradual weakening. But new federal data issued Friday suggests it may have hit a long-awaited wall. “We’re finally in the eye of the hurricane,” Daniel Zhao, chief economist at career site Glassdoor, wrote in a note. “After months […]