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The investment round was accompanied by the launch of Wormhole Labs, an independent technology company “emerging from stealth to become a core contributor to Wormhole.” Wormhole, a blockchain protocol designed to address the interoperability challenges of pioneer blockchain networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, has secured $225 million in funding, propelling the company’s total valuation to a new high of $2.5 billion. According to an official announcement on Wednesday, the cross-chain protocol revealed that notable investors, including Jump Trading, Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, ParaFi, Dialectic, Borderless Capital, and Arrington Capital, participated in the funding round. The company wrote:…

Laser-induced hydrothermal growth (LIHG) can occur in the ambient atmosphere to prepare integrated electrodes with dense nanosheet arrays on nickel foams for electrocatalysis (with or without further treatment). Credit: Yang Sha, Menghui Zhu, Kun Huang, Yang Zhang, Francis Moissinac, Zhizhou Zhang, Dongxu Cheng, Paul Mativenga and Zhu Liu. In the new study published in the journal International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing on 1 November 2023, researchers from the UK and China reported a novel technique based on a laser-induced hydrothermal reaction (LIHR) mechanism for the growth of binary metal oxide nanoarchitecture and layered-double hydroxides on nickel foams for electrocatalytic applications.…

Initial plans from Brighton and Hove City Council would have seen 40 arches of the historic cast iron walkway in the first phase of the project. However, due to increasing costs, the council sought a quote for restoring 28 arches in case restoring 40 proved too costly. The council has opted to only restore 28 arches as a result of the increased costs of the project. Councillor Julie Cattell, lead member for major projects on the city council, said: “The council is planning to go out to the second stage of tender process in early December for the first phase…

Location : The A59 westbound at the junction with the M57 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 05:30 and 05:45 on 30 November 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Image Credit: Hulu After getting pregnant unexpectedly, Kourtney Kardashian is embracing all things baby. In the November 29 episode of The Kardashians, Kourtney brings along Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian to the first night of Blink-182’s San Diego tour stop. Kourtney, 44, rocks a casual tracksuit and bares her bump on the tour bus. Both Kris, 68, and Khloé, 39, note that Kourtney’s “stomach’s out.” Travis Barker joins them all on the tour bus to catch up with everyone. “Mom, please,” Penelope Disick says off-camera. Khloé tells Kourtney, “She [Penelope] doesn’t like that your belly’s out.” Kourtney asks Penelope if…

Days after a privacy complaint was lodged against Meta in the European Union over its latest controversial shift of legal basis claimed for processing people’s data for ads, consumer groups across the region are filing their own complaints about what the tracking giant is up to. A coalition of almost 20 consumer protection organizations is united in the view that Meta’s switch to railroading users into agreeing to being tracked and profiled so it can keep profiting from microtargeting them is “unfair” and “illegal” —  breaching EU consumer protection law “on several counts”. Starting this month, EU users of Meta’s social…

So, it’s a strange truth that in our age of seamless digital interaction, customer service is often awful. We all have horror stories of wasted hours of terrible hold music, FAQs that require a degree in technology, and chatbots that are as clever as a potato. On top of all this, since the COVID-19 lockdowns, many businesses have scaled back customer service and extended deadlines for complaint resolution. Some have removed helplines, leaving customers reliant on ineffective and frustrating chatbots. But cost-cutting can be a false economy. On average, employees are spending nearly 4.8 days a month dealing with problems…

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is making the headlines again, this time for an expletive-laden outburst on live TV at an annual conference hosted by The New York Times.Speaking at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Nov. 29, Elon Musk, the owner of micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter), lashed out at advertisers leaving the social media site due to antisemitic posts he amplified there.Recently, Musk publicly endorsed what the White House labeled “antisemitic and racist hate” on the platform, which he has since apologized for. The tweet has also been deleted.However, when interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin asked about advertisers…

A gunman who tenacious Met detectives identified and extradited from St Lucia to face justice at the Old Bailey has been convicted of murder.Chase Griffith, 22, (24.05.01) of Ashfield Parade, N14 was found guilty of the murder of 28-year-old Sam Brown at the conclusion of the trial on Wednesday, 29 November.Griffith had been extradited from Saint Lucia having fled there following the murder.He will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on a date to be determined.Detective Chief Inspector Kelly Allen who led the investigation said: “This conviction brings an end to a long and painstaking investigation by officers from the…

At around 7.20am on Tuesday, November 28, cops received a report of a car being stolen from outside a property in Montrose Drive after it was left unattended while being defrosted.  An investigation is ongoing.  Police are now warning car owners not to leave their vehicle unattended while defrosting it, highlighting that many insurance companies will not pay claims for any stolen in this way.  Police Scotland East Dunbartonshire division say they found seven vehicles running unattended outside homes this morning.  Defrosting your vehicle? Never leave it unnattended!We have seen the first “Frosting” car theft in Bearsden yesterday morning.Many insurers will not…