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Sugarverse secures $1 million to develop Web3 games with lasting economies, starting with Sugar Match on Tezos’ Etherlink in 2025.

Co-founder of HitBit Pro and Head of Pateplay Africa believes that Web3 is a revolution in emerging markets, allowing people to safely make payments and preserve capital.

Open Banking began as a response to the European Union’s PSD2 regulation, designed to increase competition and innovation in financial services. Open Banking enabled third-party providers to introduce new payment solutions, such as Pay-by-Bank. VRP is an Open Banking innovation designed to address these gaps by automating payments while maintaining transparency, security, and user control.

React: Flexible, library-focused approach. Great for projects that need customizable solutions. Vast ecosystem but requires additional libraries for routing and state management. Vue: Easy to learn, uses single-file components, and provides official plugins like Vue Router and Vuex/Pinia. Good for both small apps and larger-scale projects when structured carefully. Angular: A complete, TypeScript-based framework with built-in solutions for routing, form handling, and more. Ideal...

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a striking lightning text effect using HTML and CSS. By structuring the HTML with a container and child elements, and applying specific CSS properties like clip-path and position, you can simulate a lightning effect on text. The guide addresses common styling challenges, such as handling italic fonts and ensuring proper element positioning, providing solutions to maintain design integrity.

Have you ever been in the middle of an important task, only for your Mac to dim the screen or go to sleep at the worst possible moment?

The debate concerning the sustainability of the AI has become increasingly important. The training phase remains the biggest contributor to power consumption in AI systems. Pruning and self-optimization approaches are challenging in AI-optimized systems.

AI in QA is neither a revolution nor a gimmick—it’s a tool. It enhances, but doesn’t replace, human testers. AI is great for automation, defect prediction, and test data management, but it can’t replace critical thinking or domain expertise. The key is using AI strategically, not blindly. Strong QA fundamentals matter more than AI hype. AI won’t fix bad processes, but it can amplify...

Organizations are facing a critical challenge to AI adoption: how to leverage their domain-specific knowledge to use AI in a way that delivers trustworthy results. Knowledge graphs provide the missing “truth layer” for AI that transforms probabilistic outputs into real world business acceleration.

AI's increasing capability to replace human work poses risks of mass unemployment. Recent research shows 43.6% of AI applications can directly replace humans, while 31.3% are transitioning towards automation. The article warns of the "Turing Trap" - focusing on replacing rather than enhancing human capabilities. Suggested solutions include tax reform, education investment, and encouraging human-AI collaboration rather than replacement.

Ed25519 is an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithm used for digital signatures. It's part of the asymmetric (public-key) cryptography family.

How transactions work on Solana, including their structure, processing lifecycle, and why Solana transactions are fast and low-cost.

80% of software engineers are not able to become senior software developers. Here are three reasons why. If you make all these mistakes, then right now stop, otherwise you will face problems.

Mamba enhances SSMs with a selection mechanism for context-aware reasoning, outperforming Transformers in long-context tasks like DNA and audio modeling. Future directions include scaling to LLaMa-sized AI models.

Welcome to HackerNoon Startups of the Week! Each week, the HackerNoon team showcases a list of startups from our Startups of The Year database. All these startups have been nominated as one of the best in their respective category or region. This week, we’re pleased to bring you ROW Marketing Agency, Violet, & YellowMay.

DeFi's reliance on variable rates limits institutional adoption. DELV’s Hyperdrive protocol brings fixed-rate yield and borrowing, offering stability, efficiency, and seamless integration with top DeFi platforms. By optimizing liquidity provisioning and enabling tokenized fixed-income products, DELV is paving the way for structured, long-term investment in decentralized finance.

Traditional performance testing focuses on metrics like response times and max load but often ignores user experience and business impact. A more effective approach includes user journey simulations, frustration metrics, conversion tracking, and resilience testing under real-world conditions. Teams must go beyond numbers, integrating business goals and user insights to ensure true application success.

Discover how 51nodes and World Mobile’s $5 million grant program is funding 50 innovative projects to drive Industry 5.0, supported by major corporations and cutting-edge decentralized solutions.

Funtico and FunNFT launch Mystery Tournaments on March 14, 2025. The tournaments feature three games, offering a prize pool of 1,500 USDT and 75,000 $TICO, Funtico’s native token. The event tests how digital assets connect to competitive play.

The emergence of cryptocurrency has greatly impacted the financial system around the world. Some countries recognize the importance of cryptocurrency and have well-tailored laws to support it, while some others impose strict regulations or even complete bans.