Articles Posted by zeestephen
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Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high for the first time in more than two years, as this year's rally - fueled by excitement over bitcoin ETFs and the upcoming halving event - accelerated...The price of the cryptocurrency topped $69,210 on Tuesday morning before retreating, according to Coin Metrics.
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Users have reported issues accessing Facebook and Instagram amid fears that Meta may have been hacked, according to unconfirmed reports on social media...Areas such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have all had a high number of reports, according to the map from Down Detector.
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Apple is facing a tough environment in its key market, China. Several notable trends are adding pressure, not least of which is intense competition from local Chinese smartphone makers - including a resurging Huawei.
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The price of bitcoin rose to start the week, edging even closer to its all-time high after the rally took a breather over the weekend. [All time high - $69,000 - Nov 2021] [High today - almost $67,000]
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Actual data and various lines of hard evidence show that there is no connection between climate change and the wildfires now ravaging parts of north Texas and Oklahoma...Sadly, once again the media is pushing the "climate catastrophe" narrative in which every extreme weather event or natural disaster is caused by climate change, despite the clear evidence that this is false
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Philip Martin is Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Davis...Long essay, but should be of interest to anyone in the food business, and of interest to any general readers who wonder how dinner gets to the dinner table.
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A leading scientific journal faces humiliation after it published a completely fake paper, purportedly written by Chinese researchers, which contained AI generated images of a rat with a penis bigger than its own body...The Telegraph reports that the journal Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology published a paper that claimed to show the signalling pathway of sperm stem cells, but depicted a rat sitting upright with a massive #### and four giant testicles.
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The IRS, with billion of dollars in new funding from Congress, has launched a sweeping crackdown on wealthy taxpayers, partnerships and large companies.
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The graph shows the Average Surface Temperature Anomaly for the contiguous United States since 2005. The data comes from the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) which is a properly sited (away from human influences and infrastructure) and state-of-the-art weather network consisting of 114 stations in the USA...The US Climate Reference Network record from 2005 shows no obvious warming during this period. [Chart in Comment #1]
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Is anyone else having a problem making a FR donation? Everything checks out fine on my end, but FR keeps saying my card is being declined. I chatted with an Account Rep for my credit card. She says my card is fine. Thanks for any help with this.
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Compared to 2019, all employment growth has gone to the foreign-born...Comparing the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2023 shows 2.7 million more people working in the United States - 2.9 million more immigrants (legal and illegal) and 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans.
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"Demand for spot-bitcoin ETFs remains robust, with net inflows of $1.1 billion over the past week and $2.8 billion since their launch," he added. "On Friday alone, ETFs acquired 12,000 bitcoin, significantly outpacing the daily creation rate of approximately 900 new bitcoins."
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Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl appear to have developed resistance to cancer - raising hopes the findings can help scientists fight the disease in humans...
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Bitcoin marched higher to end the week, with its price breaching the $48,000 level for the first time since spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds began trading. [$47,800 as I post]
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The prices consumers pay in the marketplace rose at an even slower pace than originally reported, according to closely watched revisions the government released Friday...[Other business news sources are reporting that the CPI was revised UP +0.1 in October and UP +0.1 in November - so - 4th Quarter 2023 CPI is UP +0.1 MORE than originally reported!]
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The live audience let out a whoop when Haley stood up on stage and began asking "Trump," played by James Austin Johnson, questions at a faux CNN town hall in South Carolina after other people in the audience had their turn...A beaming Haley also delivered the signature line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" at the end of the skit.
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Imagine the Olympics on steroids - literally...Founded by Australian businessman Aron D'Souza and backed by some of the world's richest venture capitalists, the Enhanced Games is an international competition that seeks to elevate athletes to their full potential by not only allowing, but encouraging, them to use performance-enhancing drugs.
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State lawmakers in Georgia on Wednesday introduced legislation to void the racketeering charges former President Donald Trump is facing in the state. The lawmakers say they seek to prevent "current and future politically-motivated prosecutions commenced" in Georgia.
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Real Quote From The Article - "Sex refers to the biological characteristics, including DNA, hormones and more, many of which impact height. Gender refers to social and cultural ideas. The research around height centers on males, typically defined in the research as people who were assigned male at birth. We are utilizing this research, while understanding that not all men were assigned male at birth."
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Trump claimed that investors are betting he will win the 2024 presidential election...Trump cited no evidence to back up the claim..."THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET," Trump claimed in an all-caps Truth social post, "BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN..."
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