StanChart, Animoca Brands and HKT launch joint venture to develop Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin

Standard Chartered’s Hong Kong arm (SCBHK), in collaboration with Animoca Brands and telecom firm HKT, announced a joint venture to launch a Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin. According to a Feb. 17…

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Institutional investors hold $27B in Bitcoin ETF shares, controlling over 25% of total AUM

Institutional investors held 25.4% of the assets under management (AUM) of spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as of Dec. 31 — totaling $26.8 billion.K33 Research head of research Vetle…

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Profit over privacy? Google gives advertisers more personal info in major ‘fingerprinting’ U-turn

Google has reversed its policy on 'fingerprinting''Fingerprinting' is a technique used to collect personal user dataUsers have very little say over what information is given to advertisers Do you sometimes…

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Alexa’s big AI revamp might have been delayed again, and I’m losing faith Amazon’s new assistant will be all that smart

A new leak suggests Alexa's AI is too innacurate to launch yetIt'll still be shown off on February 26, but won't release until laterThe leak follows reports Alexa was delayed…

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Supreme irony: AMD got rid of GloFo’s predecessor to survive; Intel may now merge with the foundry to do the same

GlobalFoundries was spun off when AMD decided to go fabless 16 years agoThomas Caulfield’s leadership made GloFo profitable; now rumors link him to IntelA merger could help Intel, but regulatory…

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