Tech

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.

2026-08-17 · 18:32 UTC
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Crypto

Crypto Stocks Break Free as Wall Street Buckles Under Iran Risk

2026-08-17 · 18:30

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Crypto

Stellar Adoption Expands Institutional Reach

2026-08-17 · 18:30

DTCC and DTC plans may settle Treasuries, ETFs and Russell 1000 securities on to Stellar in the first half of 2027. …

Crypto

Solana’s Pump Token Leads Crypto Market Gainers as Chart Paints Golden Cross

2026-08-17 · 18:29

The native token of Solana's Pump.fun is up 8%, and the pattern bulls have been waiting for is starting to form on the…

Tech

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

2026-08-17 · 18:28

Roboflow Playground is a new tool that allows users to test and compare up to five zero-shot computer vision models…

Sports

West Brom in talks over permanent Collyer return

2026-08-17 · 18:26

Manchester United midfielder Toby Collyer is in talks with West Bromwich Albion about returning to The Hawthorns on a…

Crypto

Ethereum Developers Target Privacy Changes in Next Major Upgrade

2026-08-17 · 18:19

A proposed package would let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees without relying on intermediaries.

Tech

How I Over-Engineered My Book

2026-08-17 · 18:15

The author built an over-engineered book publishing system using developer tools like Git, Markdown, and CI/CD pipelines…

Tech

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

2026-08-17 · 18:13

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

Crypto

Stellar Hits Multi-Year Floor; XLM Eyes Bullish Reset To $2.40?

2026-08-17 · 18:13

Analyst says touching the 1.272 Fibonacci extension at roughly $2.40-$2.45 is tangible in the next bull run.

Tech

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

2026-08-17 · 18:09

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

Tech

Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment

2026-08-17 · 18:06
World

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson is appealing - here's what you need to know

2026-08-17 · 18:03

The Australian, who notoriously poisoned her family members, is trying to overturn her conviction.

World

French PM heckled over wildfire response as blazes continue across Europe

2026-08-17 · 18:00

The prime minister announced on Monday €12m worth of aid to French regions that had been worst affected by the fires.

Tech

Llama.cpp v0.1.0

2026-08-17 · 17:56

Llama.cpp released version 0.1.0 on August 17, marking an official release of the project with 124k stars and 21.8k…

Tech

We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

2026-08-17 · 17:55

SecretSpec has released dotenv-ng 1.0, a fork of the unmaintained dotenvy library that fixes critical parsing bugs where…

Tech

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

2026-08-17 · 17:54

Researchers have developed a GPU programming framework integrated into the Rust compiler that enables safe, portable,…

Tech

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

2026-08-17 · 17:52

Memory prices have surged 500% over the past 12 months, reaching levels up to 10 times higher than the lowest prices…

Crypto

ZEC Breaks $500 as 4.3% Daily Gain Puts XMR Further Behind

2026-08-17 · 17:49

Zcash rallied over 4.3% to cross $518, bringing its market cap to $8.65 billion and widening its lead over monero (XMR).

Crypto

Cardano Races Toward Dijkstra Upgrade as Sept. Deadline Nears

2026-08-17 · 17:47

Cardano prepares for the Dijkstra upgrade, with Linear Leios and Peras set to improve transaction capacity, network…

Crypto

BitMine Now Controls 4.8 % Of Ethereum’s Total Supply

2026-08-17 · 17:35

BitMine Immersion Technologies scales up on Ethereum.

Crypto

Bitcoin Holds Support as Leverage Cools

2026-08-17 · 17:30

Bitcoin has been held in a tight range around $63,000 with buyers holding up $62,800, and sellers holding back advances…

Tech

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

2026-08-17 · 17:25

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B, an open-weight model released in August 2026, scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…

Crypto

Ethereum’s Hegotá Upgrade Cuts Down To 4 Priorities

2026-08-17 · 17:25

Ether’s developers are aiming to deliver apps that users & AI can ‘actually feel’ with this chain upgrade.