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Stablecoin issuer Tether holds 116 tons of physical gold, placing it on par with central banks such as those in South Korea, Hungary and Greece. Tether is “the largest holder of gold outside central banks,” Jefferies wrote in a recent analysis, per a report by the Financial Times. The investment bank added that Tether’s growing…
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) released version 3.0.0 of its reference server software, rippled, introducing a wide-ranging set of amendments, bug fixes and internal changes aimed at improving accounting accuracy, developer tooling and long-term protocol extensibility. Operators running XRPL servers are required to upgrade to the version to maintain network compatibility, according to RippleX, the development…
Time is running out to join one of the startup world’s largest annual conferences. You have just 4 days left to lock in up to $624 in savings on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 pass before prices rise Friday, October 17 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Bringing a plus-one? Get 50% off the second ticket. Bringing a…
The Apple Watch helps people track their health and fitness, but it can also be a great tool to help people stay productive and get work done. This is especially true for people who get easily distracted by their phone. Although the Apple Watch comes with simple built-in productivity apps like Reminders and Calendar, it’s…
If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of making AI usable. In practice, that involves deploying smaller models where they fit, embedding intelligence into physical devices, and…
Sixteen-year-old DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, has revealed its influential 15-film Short List. The festival will run its main lineup of 116 features, 30 world premieres, 34 U.S. premieres, and 113 short films in-person November 12-20 in New York City’s IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika and continue online until November 30 with…
“One Battle After Another” is a film littered with great moments, from the captivating prologue that Teyana Taylor dominates to the poignant “American Girl” needle drop that closes the epic out. But there’s one sequence the film that critics and audiences have singled out as a standout: the stomach-churning, incredibly suspenseful road chase along a…
On Wednesday evening at PlayGround Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don’t understand yet will explain what’s coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and truly, the lineup is ridiculous. The series has traveled around the globe under the auspices of TechCrunch. Steve Case rented a…
At the end of Episode 1 of “The Ba***ds of Bollywood,” I cackled so loudly that I startled my editor. That’s the premiere of Aryan Khan’s Netflix series which ends with the line “Say no to drugs,” spoken directly into camera as a deliciously cheeky reference to Khan’s own 2021 drug charges that led to…
Editor’s Note: “Orwell 2+2 = 5” originally debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It opens at the IFC Center in New York City on Thursday, October 2 and the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles on October 9. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare that his father’s…
