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Blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk paints a grim picture for buyers of the TRUMP meme token. The coin has shed ninety-six percent of its peak value, and holders are collectively down three point eight billion dollars. Eighty-five percent of secondary market wallets for the affiliated WLFI token are also underwater — a stark reminder that political branding does not insulate anyone from crypto's volatility.
Sony, meanwhile, never brought a fascinating piece of hardware history to market. A developer named Brian Watson recently revealed that Sony once built a working prototype called the PlayStation Puga — a DualShock controller with an entire PlayStation One packed inside it, designed to plug directly into a television. The project died, reportedly because Sony offered game studios just ten cents per unit sold.
And on the lighter side of the developer world, two projects on Hacker News caught attention this week. One turns your personal homepage into a live chatbot that knows your biography. Another reimagines the entire history of every nation on Earth as software release notes, plotted across an interactive three-dimensional globe spanning ten thousand entries across one hundred ninety-seven countries.
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