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A bear market is one of the best opportunities to invest in crypto, with one key caveat: You need to choose your investments very carefully. Bear markets tend to separate the crypto contenders from the pretenders. Many cryptocurrencies never recover from their first downturn. I’m selective about cryptocurrency investments, especially during times of economic uncertainty. Even so, there are a few coins that I think are well-equipped to survive a bear market and deliver outsized long-term returns. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » Monero…

Unknown hackers last month targeted leaders of the exiled Uyghur community in a campaign involving Windows spyware, researchers revealed Monday.  Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto, detailed an espionage campaign against members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an organization that represents the Muslim-minority group, which has for years faced repression, discrimination, surveillance, and hacking from China’s government.  Google alerted some WUC members to the hacking campaign in mid-March, prompting the members to contact journalists and Citizen Lab’s researchers, the report said. Citizen Lab investigated and found a targeted phishing email sent to…

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to web pages where users can buy the products. OpenAI says users can ask super-specific questions in natural language and receive customized results. To start, OpenAI is experimenting with categories such as fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics. OpenAI is rolling out the feature in GPT-4o (the default AI model for ChatGPT)…

Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood recently reiterated her prediction that Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) price could reach $1.5 million by 2030. In the innovation-centric investment firm’s “Big Ideas 2025” report, Wood claims that institutional interest, rising demand from emerging markets, and a wider view of the crypto as an effective form of “digital gold” will all combine to drive its price much higher. Ark calculated that $1.5 million target by measuring Bitcoin’s institutional penetration rates and its adoption as a safe-haven asset across emerging markets, but that outcome would certainly be a bull case scenario. Wood also presented what she described…

Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the arm is the follow-up to Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. The company’s robotics division, LeRobot, partnered with French robotics firm The Robot Studio to debut the SO-100 for around $100 in October. Hugging Face teamed up with The Robot Studio once again for the SO-101, as well as with robotics store WowRobo, IoT hardware supplier…

British oil and gasoline company BP (British Petroleum) signage is being pictured in Warsaw, Poland, on July 29, 2024.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBritish oil giant BP on Tuesday posted slightly weaker-than-expected first-quarter net profit, following a recent strategic reset and a slump in crude prices.The beleaguered oil and gas major posted underlying replacement cost profit, used as a proxy for net profit, of $1.38 billion for the first three months of the year. That missed analyst expectations of $1.6 billion, according to an LSEG-compiled consensus.BP’s net profit had hit $2.7 billion a year earlier and $1.2 billion in the…

Uber on Monday informed employees, including some who had been previously approved for remote work, that it will require them to come to the office three days a week, CNBC has learned. “Even as the external environment remains dynamic, we’re on solid footing, with a clear strategy and big plans,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told employees in the memo, which was viewed by CNBC. “As we head into this next chapter, I want to emphasize that ‘good’ is not going to be good enough — we need to be great.”Khosrowshahi goes on to say employees need to push themselves so the company…

A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a U.K.-based investor with no obvious ties to the EV startup, offered $20 million for Canoo’s assets, according to a filing. A lawyer representing Garson filed a motion Friday to vacate the sale, claiming he presented a “far superior offer” to that of Canoo CEO Anthony Aquila, who bid just $4 million in cash for the assets. (Aquila’s bid also includes the extinguishment of around $11 million in…

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will be — available for download under an “open” license from AI dev platform Hugging Face and GitHub. They range in size from 0.6 billion parameters to 235 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform better than those with fewer parameters. The rise of China-originated model series like Qwen have increased the…

Steve Chen had never been in love. Last spring though, it happened. The 25-year-old met his first girlfriend in a way he couldn’t have imagined before: a livestreamed video chat.Frustrated with traditional dating and using the apps, Chen jumped on a new trend among young, single people in China. Those looking for love go into video chatrooms hosted by what’s called a “cyber matchmaker,” all while thousands of viewers watch and comment in real time.The number of single people in China over 15 reached a record-high of 240 million in 2023, according to government data. Facing a plummeting birth rate…