Why Users and Businesses Are Choosing to Get Paid in USDT Instead of Local Currency
Discover why USDT stablecoin payments are becoming popular worldwide. Learn the benefits, risks, and practical tips for using USDT instead of traditional money. Getting paid in USDT puts real‑time, US dollar–stable value straight into your hands. It shields you from local inflation and slow bank transfers. And payments land almost instantly, even across borders, with…
Bulk Buying IT Hardware? Here’s How to Save More with Direct Macro
Businesses, educational institutions, and IT resellers constantly require reliable and high-performance IT equipment. Upgrading an entire network, developing custom systems for clients, or even setting up new office systems, the cost can add up quickly. The smart solution is not about compromising on the quality; it’s about optimizing your procurement strategy. It is where the…
The Smart Ring: Passing fad, or the next big health-monitoring thing?
The battery in my two-year-old first-gen Pixel Watch generally—unless I use GPS and/or LTE data services heavily—lasts 24 hours-plus until it hits the 15%-left Battery Saver threshold. And because sleep quality tracking is particularly important to me, I’ve more or less gotten in the habit of tossing it on the charger right before dinner, for…
FirstClub bucks India’s speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach | TechCrunch
While quick commerce in India has become synonymous with 10-minute deliveries — and the hottest play for startups and investors — FirstClub is taking a slower, more curated route. Yet just three months after launching its app, the 8-month-old startup has tripled its valuation. At a post-money valuation of $120 million, the Bengaluru-based startup has…
What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition?
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one…
AI by the Numbers: How It Took Over Web Design & Development in 2025
AI isn’t just a neat extra anymore—it’s at the core of how websites are imagined, built, tested, and maintained. It’s replacing tedious steps, automating design iterations, generating entire codebases, and even sparking creative directions we wouldn’t have dreamed of a few years back. For designers, AI now sits in the same category as Figma or…
Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots Review
As a lifelong sports fan, golf was the one I never got heavily invested in. I owned a set of clubs, briefly joined my team in high school, and would occasionally hit the local course with some buddies a couple of times per year. Still, I never really followed the sport nearly as closely as…
Acer’s First Kompanio Ultra Chromebook Plus Spin 514 Debuts, Alongside Two New Chromeboxes
[IFA 2025] Acer is rolling out its first Chromebook powered by MediaTek’s Kompanio Ultra platform—the Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (CP514-5HN)—and pairing it with two compact desktop options, the Chromebox CXI6 and the Chromebox Mini CXM2, to cover everything from mobile creativity to space-saving workstations. The headliner Spin 514 brings an integrated NPU with up to…
The best VPN deals: Get up to 77 percent off ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Surfshark and others
A virtual private network (VPN) can save you a lot of money if you use it right. By changing your virtual location, you can use one streaming service to see shows that might be scattered between three or four in your home country. You can also trawl the world for discounts that only show up…
ToolShell: An all-you-can-eat buffet for threat actors
ESET Research has been monitoring attacks involving the recently discovered ToolShell zero-day vulnerabilities 24 Jul 2025 • , 5 min. read On July 19th, 2025, Microsoft confirmed that a set of zero-day vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server called ToolShell is being exploited in the wild. ToolShell is comprised of CVE-2025-53770, a remote code execution vulnerability, and…