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 official X account of the open-source cryptocurrency responded to Dorsey, who had quoted Elon Musk's statement: "The most interesting outcome is usually the most likely." "Wouldn’t it be ...

“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 ...

HONG KONG, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AEON, the next generation crypto payment framework, today announced the release of its x402 SDK Version 2 on BNB Chain, enabling AI agents and API service ...

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 ...

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 ...

The offering, called Square Bitcoin, includes three main features: bitcoin payments, automatic bitcoin conversions from card sales, and a native bitcoin wallet built into Square’s seller platform.

Square, the payments processor owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc., launched a feature enabling local businesses to accept Bitcoin at the point of sale and hold the digital asset in an integrated wallet ...

There are more than 1.5 million payments to go. Those first payments went to senior citizens and those who receive disability payments from Social Security and completed the new PAS-1 application.