From Reuters:
Donald Trump’s real estate company was convicted on Tuesday of carrying out a more-than 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities... The Trump Organization - which operates hotels, golf courses, and other real estate around the world - faces fines over the conviction. The exact amount will be determined by the judge overseeing the trial in New York State court at a later date.
Despite recent bad news around crypto, some people still think it’s the next big thing.
Enter this $279 credit card-sized Ledger Stax crypto wallet, “a usable way for you to take control of cryptocurrency and digital collectibles.”
It has an E Ink screen that wraps around its spine and wireless Qi charging, but its most important attribute is name recognition — it’s designed by Tony Fadell, who led the team creating the iPod. That’s supposed to suggest that, like the iPod, this will also become popular. We’ll see!
Not to jinx things, but it appears we’ve gone five consecutive minutes without Sam Bankman-Fried popping up for another interview.
A few news items you may have missed:
Emma Roth and Mitchell Clark looked into some of the services teeming with ex-Twitter posters, like Mastodon and Hive.
Stack Overflow banned AI-generated answers.
The trouble with tech in trucking.
Google’s December feature drop is rolling out for Pixel phones.
There is no HBO, there is only “Max” (maybe).
At 5PM ET.
On a Friday.
On Twitter.
With a “live Q&A.”
Kanye’s tweets, Elon’s semi trucks, and lots of ego to go around... just another day on the Internet.
In other stories that aren’t about those people that you may have missed:
Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club) is jumping from Netflix to Amazon.
The Mandalorian returns on March 1st.
There’s a trailer for the Beast Wars Transformers movie.
The new OpenAI bot is chatty, but naive.
There are more cheap laptops coming with AMD’s gaming-friendly RDNA2 tech.
According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, a mixed reality headset from Apple could debut in 2023, complete with its own OS and app store.
While that all lines up with what we’ve heard, he also revealed that internally, the platform has changed names, going from “realityOS” to “xrOS,” for “extended reality.”
Whatever they call it, hopefully, it’s more fun to use than Meta’s Quest Pro — see our video review of that device below.
Just in case you missed Elon Musk’s “show and tell” about brain-computer interfaces last night, we have the key details for you, viewable in less than 15 minutes.
If the video isn’t for you, Verge science editor Mary Beth Griggs can break it all down here.
During the presentation, Musk said that the company had submitted most of the paperwork needed for a human clinical trial to the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates medical devices in the United States. Previously, Musk had said that he’d hoped for human trials to begin in 2020, and then 2022. Now, that’s slipped to at least 2023.
Today’s schedule includes a few things to keep an eye out for.
At 5PM ET, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is scheduled for a live interview at the NYT DealBook event, so of course, we’re tuning in. Then, around 9PM ET (or whenever Elon Musk decides to show up, he’s usually late), Neuralink will have a show-and-tell about whatever it’s plugging into someone’s brain next.
And don’t miss Verge staffers showing off some of their favorite old tech gear.
