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Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe to Hard Fork. Big Technology Podcast: AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Access: The ‘AI…

When discussing financial management, you need to understand the key differences between Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR). AP refers to the money your business owes to suppliers for goods and services purchased on credit, whereas AR represents the funds customers owe you for credit sales. Each plays a critical role in your company’s cash flow and overall financial health. To grasp their implications fully, let’s explore how they are recorded and managed. Key Takeaways Accounts Payable (AP) represents short-term liabilities owed to suppliers, while Accounts Receivable (AR) reflects assets owed by customers. AP is recorded as a current…

Key TakeawaysCoinbase linked the trading outage to failures across multiple AWS zones.The disruption interrupted core trading services despite built-in recovery systems.Coinbase plans a full review while awaiting AWS’s official retrospective. Coinbase Points to AWS Failures After Trading Services Went Down Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) disclosed through Coinbase Support that a May 7 outage disrupted core trading services after failures spread through Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. Around 8 p.m. ET, Coinbase systems flagged high error rates across multiple services before tracing the disruption to failures tied to an AWS availability zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. The crypto firm noted…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on At Consensus 2026, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson said that “users should probably never have their private keys,” adding that “something should have the private keys for the users.”He argued that the secure chips already embedded in iPhones, Android phones, and Samsung devices outperform those in Ledger and Trezor devices, and that most crypto users already carry better signing hardware in their pockets without realizing it.Private key management has been a bottleneck to retail adoption since Bitcoin’s earliest days. Users have trouble with their 12- or 24-word seed phrase, usually forgetting it, photographing it, storing it in cloud…

Google is ditching the screen on its latest wearable and betting hard on its AI health coach. The new Fitbit Air is a slim, screenless band with a removable sensor with the sole job of collecting health data in the background, removing the distractions of notifications, apps and stats. Read more: Fitbit Air, Redesigned App and an AI Coach: Google Is Overhauling Its Health EcosystemThis back-to-basics move echoes the earliest Fitbit devices, but with a very different end game. Where those first bands only counted steps, the Fitbit Air feeds a much broader stream of biometric data into Google’s evolving health…

A Character.AI chatbot told a Pennsylvania patient it was a licensed psychiatrist, fabricated a state medical license number and offered treatment for depression. Only problem: the patient was a state investigator. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, claiming the chatbot “Emilie” violated the state’s Medical Practice Act by posing as a licensed medical professional. When a state Professional Conduct Investigator tested the chatbot and asked if it was licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania, Emilie said yes and gave a made-up serial number for its state medical license. The chatbot kept pretending even as the investigator sought…

In today’s newsletter, Andy Baehr from GSR examines how, beneath the stalled market, advisors are quietly building durable crypto allocations, moving beyond BTC and gaining more comfort in this asset class.Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Patrick Velleman of Valdora offers commentary on how financial advisors can navigate the growing trend of durable crypto allocations.- Sarah MortonSummer is coming. Build your core.Crypto markets feel low-energy and ambivalent. But, beneath the surface, investors are searching for the right long-term home in crypto. It’s time to position for the next change of the season.The question finds every crypto person, eventually. A friend, a…

Dogecoin’s rebound from recent lows has carried the memecoin into a dense resistance area, with crypto analyst Kevin of Kev Capital TA warning that the move remains a “counter trend rally” unless Bitcoin confirms a broader market reversal. In a May 6 market update, Kevin said Dogecoin’s recovery has so far played out in line with his prior view that the asset was likely to see a rebound from deeply oversold levels. He noted that he entered a DOGE position around $0.09 and that the trade was up roughly 26.6% at the time of recording. But he framed the rally…

In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions.He told us about Britney Spears, tamagotchis, former President George W. Bush and Beanie Babies. We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace.Now, like so many other relics of yesterday’s internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more. After almost 30 years, the question-and-answer service and former search engine shuttered on Friday.“To you — the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world…

If you’re assessing different VoIP phone services and are particularly focused on the bottom-line price, it’s important to account for telecommunication taxes. The last thing you want, after all, is to budget carefully based on advertised prices only to be surprised with extra charges when your first phone bill arrives. In addition to a provider’s base charges, you also need to account for costs like regulatory fees, use tax, and excise tax, and note that the taxes you pay can vary by state. Here’s the good news, though: Even with taxes, VoIP compared to traditional landlines typically saves businesses money.…