Revelers began celebrating New Year’s Eve in Times Square as early as 1904, but it wasn’t until 1907 that the first ball was dropped. The new Constellation Ball is the ninth iteration and the largest ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

The U.S. government shutdown may end in the next few days, a development that's likely to lift both equities and crypto assets. There's also the potential boost to sentiment from President Donald ...

Payment processor Square has launched its Bitcoin payment feature for sellers, allowing them to opt in and accept Bitcoin (BTC) at checkout through its point-of-sale system. At the same time, Jacob ...

“Remember when your browser said 404 Not Found? Well, now it might just say 402 – Payment Required.” This tongue-in-cheek greeting belies a serious development: x402, Coinbase’s new open payment ...

Jackson Square Partners disclosed a new stake in Shift4 Payments in its quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC filing). The fund reported ownership of 74,100 shares ...

It’s the real world wide web. Romanian scientists realized every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after discovering the “world’s biggest spider web”– complete with approximately 111,000 of the critters.

Indictments described two rings that together hawked millions of doses of heroin, fentanyl or crack cocaine in the park and on social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat. By Benjamin Weiser and Santul ...

A customer just bought a coffee using bitcoin at Compass Coffee. This reportedly marked the first-ever Square terminal in the world to accept bitcoin. The pilot launch, showcased during DC Fintech ...

Sellers using the Square Bitcoin solution can accept BTC payments with no processing fees until 2027, according to a press statement. Moreover, a Conversion feature will let them convert a portion of ...

Square, the point-of-sale system owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, is announcing a number of new upgrades today—including one that will make it easier for business owners to accept payments in Bitcoin. On ...

Square, Block’s merchant payments platform, has launched new features for merchants, including AI-powered voice ordering for restaurants, enhancements to its AI assistants — such as providing local ...