Back in the day when early humans were spreading out of Africa, the world was not as we know it. Yet the study of the paths by which the Homo genus dispersed around the globe starting as much as 2 million years ago has tended to overlook that. It is agreed that our genus evolved in Africa and began to …
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Stripe is funding a new blockchain company called Tempo, co-founder CEO Patrick Collison announced on Thursday. Tempo is aimed at high-volume processing of stablecoins — coins that help reduce crypto’s notorious volatility because they are pegged to a stable asset like the U.S. dollar. That’s not surprising given that Stripe acquired stablecoin company Bridge. What is surprising is the eye-popping …
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Two of Silicon Valley’s top tech firms are teaming up to change the payments landscape. On Thursday, the $91.5 billion fintech Stripe and the crypto venture firm Paradigm publicly announced their joint project, Tempo, a so-called layer 1 blockchain built around stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies typically pegged to the U.S. dollar. Layer 1 blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum are more demanding …
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An ancient and “nearly naked” black hole that astronomers believe may have been created in the first fraction of a second after the big bang has been spotted by the James Webb space telescope. If confirmed as a so-called primordial black hole, a theoretical class of object predicted to exist by Stephen Hawking but never before seen, the discovery would …
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Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI agents and landed on spreadsheets. “I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this pattern, of putting very important …
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The fintech giant Stripe is developing a new blockchain, according to a recent job posting on a site for the crypto lobby group Blockchain Association. “Tempo is a high-performance, payments-focused blockchain,” reads the job advertisement, which is for a product marketing position and dated Aug. 3. The posting goes on to say that Tempo is in stealth, has a team …
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Infographic by Linlin Zhao, University of California Riverside A new chemical probe protects healthy cells from DNA damage, preserving them from one of the 8 hallmarks of aging. The story of this potentially paradigmatic development begins where so much of human health begins: the mitochondria. These organelles are disrespectfully monikered as “the powerhouses” of the cell, but they do so …
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