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When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, arrived at MIT 25 years ago, only professors and postdocs were allowed to touch the department’s underwater vehicles. The vehicles were expensive, he explains, and required extensive training to operate.“People were scared to death about losing or damaging them, [and] there was no education pipeline to teach students,” he says, adding that the introduction of class 2.680 (Marine Autonomy, Sensing, and Communication) changed this a lot, by creating a class where undergraduate and graduate students could learn to write autonomy code, and run their software on robots on the Charles River.…

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) was created as a joke by two friends in 2013. Cryptocurrency was becoming very serious back then with the rise of Bitcoin, and they wanted to lighten the mood. The Doge meme was sweeping the internet at the time, and they used it as inspiration to launch Dogecoin. It went on to become one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies in 2021 when its market capitalization topped $90 billion, helped by influential figures like Elon Musk who started promoting it online. But Dogecoin failed to find a real use case, and since speculative frenzies never last, the…

The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 4, 2023.Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersSpotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector.The company posted an all-clear to Twitter just after noon EDT, thanking listeners for their patience.”Spotify experienced an outage today beginning around 6:20am EDT. As of 11:45am EDT, Spotify is back up and functioning normally,” the company said in a statement.The music-streaming giant did not provide additional details about the scope of the outage.Users peppered the replies to the company’s outage announcement with frustrations and…

The crypto bull run may have ended, with the market poised for a winter characterized by prolonged losses and stagnation, according to Coinbase’s institutional arm. “The 200DMA model on bitcoin does suggest that the token’s recent steep decline qualifies this as a bear market cycle starting in late March. But the same exercise performed on the COIN50 index (which includes the top 50 tokens by market capitalization) shows the asset class as a whole has been unequivocally trading in bear market territory since the end of February,” David Duong, global head of research at Coinbase Institutional, said in a note…

Electricity demand should prove resilient even if President Donald Trump’s trade war triggers a recession, according to Morgan Stanley. “We believe power demand trends are more durable than in prior cycles, in part due to the inelasticity of data center demand,” analysts led by Andrew Percoco told clients in a Monday note. “Industrial demand could decline in the near term, but reshoring of manufacturing is a long-term tailwind.” Wall Street’s bullish outlook for power demand has been a key pillar of the investment case for many energy stocks over the past 12 months. Morgan Stanley, for example, sees electricity consumption…

Rippling’s efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch. The UAE is a country with a reputation of being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition. Rippling is trying to serve Bouaziz as part of its blockbuster lawsuit in Ireland against Deel. But French bailiffs weren’t able to find Bouaziz at an apartment in Paris in his native France last week.  The suit accuses Bouaziz of bribing a Rippling employee in Ireland, Keith O’Brien, and the…

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will delay imposing his tariffs for 90 days could provide a unique buying opportunity for crypto investors. Quite simply, it could be the time to load up on cryptos that will continue to perform well, even when higher tariffs go into effect this summer. Right now, I have two names on my crypto investment radar: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Render (CRYPTO: RENDER). Both are top 50 cryptocurrencies based on market cap, and both are up during the past 30 days, despite the tariff-induced volatility. In addition, I’m keeping my eye on one red-hot…

Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, attends the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, Feb. 10, 2025.Benoit Tessier | ReutersShares of Advanced Micro Devices slid more than 5% on Wednesday after the company said it could incur charges of up to $800 million for exporting its MI308 products to China and other countries.”The Company expects to apply for licenses but there is no assurance that licenses will be granted,” AMD said in the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The new U.S. license requirement, which applies to exports of certain semiconductor products, would hit inventory, purchase commitments…

Notorious internet forum 4chan was hacked on Tuesday.  At the time of writing, 4chan’s website was not loading, and users on social media reported the site being intermittently down for hours.  Messages on a rival message board, which TechCrunch has seen, celebrated the hack, with one person claiming that the hacker responsible for the breach was inside 4chan’s system “for over a year.”  Several screenshots showing what appears to be 4chan’s back end circulated online, showing the site’s alleged back end, source code, and templates to ban users, which would only be accessible to the site’s moderators. Also in the…

Forget about Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Forget about speculative meme coins. And forget about risky altcoins. At a time when many cryptocurrencies are losing value, the single best crypto investment opportunity of 2025 could turn out to be stablecoins. That might be surprising, given that stablecoins are designed to be, well, stable. They always trade for $1, so you won’t become a crypto millionaire by investing in them directly. But there are a number of ways to invest in them indirectly, and that’s where things get interesting. The easiest way to think about stablecoins is that they are digital dollars. That’s…