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Once you hop into Roblox Sailor Piece and access the portal, you’ll be able to travel to any of the 16 islands, except Soul Dominion (previously known as Soul Society). This area is locked and can only be entered after finishing the Hogyoku quest. For those unfamiliar, the Hogyoku quest requires you to collect six Hogyoku fragments scattered across different locations in the in-game world. For a full step-by-step breakdown of how to complete the Hogyoku quest and find every fragment, read this guide to the end. Related Sailor Piece Tier List (April 2026) Find the top picks in Sailor…

Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said he hopes that cryptocurrencies and blockchain will simply become an invisible part of daily infrastructure by 2031, much like the internet today. Speaking on Scott Melker’s Wolf of All Streets podcast posted Thursday, Zhao said that while new use cases and advances will continue to emerge, he hopes talk of the technology will subside as it becomes part of everyday life. “I’m hoping that we don’t talk about crypto as crypto in five years, just like we don’t talk about the internet anymore, we don’t talk about TCP/IP, we don’t talk about HTML, JavaScript, etc. We…

PUBG Battlegrounds Boss Taeseok Jang has made his stance on AI clear, stating that he doesn’t mind the use of AI in game development, so long as it doesn’t come at the cost of good gameplay. AI has been a hot-button topic for a while now, as game developers steadily adopt the technology, so it makes sense that the PUBG Battlegrounds developer is commenting on it now. Most recently, Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has made headlines for its use of AI, which the developer stated was not meant to end up in the final project. While it has begun…

CAEX, a crypto platform linked to the Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) ecosystem, said OKX Ventures and HashKey are backing the company as it seeks to qualify for Vietnam’s pilot regime for crypto exchanges.CAEX said Friday that the two offshore companies will join VPBank Securities (VPBankS) and technology partner LynkiD as shareholders.According to a release shared with Cointelegraph, their investment is intended to help CAEX reach Vietnam’s minimum charter capital threshold of 10 trillion dong (about $380 million), a key condition for participating in the pilot program.Vietnam pilot sets high barThe move comes as Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance…

Deadline has confirmed that Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the two directors at the helm of 2025’s Final Destination Bloodlines and 2018’s Freaks, have set a new project at Sony: a Metal Gear Solid movie. The game follows Solid Snake, a gritty soldier who breaks into a government weapons facility to eliminate a terrorist threat. The Metal Gear Solid movie has long been in talks with Sony: Hideo Kojima announced that Arad Productions would produce a movie on the eponymous video game franchise with Columbia Pictures, but updates surrounding the film have been minimal. The groundbreaking stealth-action game boasts…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday marveled at the divergent fates of technology stocks — the hardware winners and software losers — and suggested it may remain this way for a while longer.This divide had been one of the market’s dominant themes in 2026 before the Iran war broke out Feb. 28. And now, even with the conflict paused in a “fragile truce,” Cramer said the buy hardware, sell software trade has returned in full force.”I’m talking about the enterprise software empire that’s being toppled by hardware stocks and AI,” the “Mad Money” host said. “This war in tech, more than the…

Newly appointed company president Brett Redfearn briefly worked as Coinbase’s head of capital markets and served for more than three years at the SEC.Tokenization platform Securitize has named Brett Redfearn as president, with the former official at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also joining its board of directors.Securitize’s Thursday notice said Redfearn previously served as the SEC’s director of its division of trading and markets, worked as Coinbase’s head of capital markets and held various roles over a decade spent at JPMorgan. He most recently has been a member of Securitize’s advisory board.Redfearn is the latest former government…

OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until now, plans were priced at: free (which now includes ads), an $8/month Go plan (that also includes ads), a $20/month Plus plan (ad free), and then all the way up to a $200 Pro plan (also ad free). OpenAI’s pricing plan page currently does not list a $200/month plan at all. However, that highest tier is still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. The model maker says Plus (which remains at $20/month) and the new $100 Pro tier are geared to support daily usage…

Florida’s Attorney General, James Uthmeier, announced Thursday that his office planned to investigate OpenAI over the alleged role of ChatGPT in a deadly shooting last year. In April 2025, a gunman opened fire on Florida State University’s campus, killing two and injuring five. Last week, attorneys for one of the victims of the shooting claimed that ChatGPT had been used to plan the attack. The family of the victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident. “AI should advance mankind, not destroy it,” Uthmeier said in a statement posted to X. “We’re demanding answers on OpenAI’s…