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In the crypto world, two major players are moving in opposite directions. BitMine, backed by analyst Tom Lee, added seventy-three million dollars in Ethereum to its treasury, doubling down on a bet that Ethereum is the smarter long-term hold. Meanwhile, Strategy — long the loudest voice for Bitcoin as a corporate reserve asset — quietly trimmed its own position, a reversal worth watching closely.
On a very different note, a developer named Nicholas Slattery has turned Sony's premium headphones into something their engineers never advertised. By tapping the gyroscopes and accelerometers already built into recent Sony models for spatial audio, his open-source app translates your head movements into live camera controls for racing and flight simulators. Several hundred games are already supported, and the software is completely free — a genuinely clever piece of engineering that costs users nothing extra.
And shifting from the earthly to the cosmic, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified a previously undocumented barred spiral galaxy. It is a reminder that Webb continues delivering discoveries at a pace that would have seemed extraordinary just a few years ago, quietly reshaping our picture of the universe one image at a time.
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