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Digital Currency Revolution

NFT: Nike debuts its first .Swoosh sneaker NFT collection

Apr 20, 2023 10:02 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Nike Inc. unveiled its first .SWOOSH drop NFT collection called the Our Force 1. This will consist of hundreds of thousands of virtual sneakers of the Air Force 1 models. It has been months since Nike launched its...

Digital Currency Revolution

Cryptocurrency: Intel terminates its Bitcoin mining chip series just a year after its launch

Apr 20, 2023 08:33 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Intel Corp. disclosed earlier this week that it has ended its Bitcoin mining chip series. It will no longer produce the Blockscale chips that were launched just a year ago. Intel Corp. made the decision after a series...

Digital Currency Revolution

NFT: Adidas expands metaverse with Chapter 1 ALTS NFT Collection launch

Apr 19, 2023 05:57 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Adidas AG is expanding its metaverse with the release of its Chapter 1 ALTS Dynamic NFT collection. Through this digital drop, all holders of Adidas Into The Metaverse NFTs will be able to burn their existing tokens to get...

Digital Currency Revolution

Metaverse: Krafton, Naver Z partner to set up metaverse company

Apr 18, 2023 09:58 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Krafton Inc. and Naver Z Corp. have teamed up to set up a new metaverse company. The companies joint venture is for the metaverse business in North America. Krafton and Naver Zs partnership is said to be a huge deal...

Americans spend more time and money filing their taxes than residents of other countries — but there are some benefits to a complex tax code

Apr 14, 2023 14:18 pm UTC| Life Investing

Tax Day falls on April 18 in 2023. But if youre one of the 20%-25% of Americans who wait until the last minute to file, dont panic you still have time. The IRS estimates that the average taxpayer spends 13 hours to...

Why is Tax Day on April 18 this year? And how did early spring become tax season, anyhow?

Apr 14, 2023 14:08 pm UTC| Life Investing

Mid-April has arrived. And along with the spring sunshine, that means the often dreaded civic duty of finishing off ones taxes. Its an arduous time for many, characterized by navigating increasingly confusing rules to...

Digital Currency Revolution

NFT: Bruce Lee jumps into Web3 with the launch of Pplpleasr’s Open Edition NFT

Apr 14, 2023 09:28 am UTC| Business Investing Digital Currency

Bruce Lee may no longer be around, but he remained very popular around the world. His movies continue to earn even if it has been almost 50 years since his demise, and this just shows that his name alone is still worth a...

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Economy

Burger King Ordered to Compensate Injured Customer With Almost $8M Payout

Burger King is set to shell out about $8 million after the court ordered it to pay a customer who was injured at the restaurant. The burger store chains franchisee in Florida has been found guilty of negligence by the...

Nestlé Reveals New Operations Chief to Replace Retiring Magdi Batato

Nestlé SA food and drink company announced it has appointed the new companys head of operations. Effective on July 1, Stephanie Pullings Hart will be the new deputy head of operations, and she will be stationed at...

Asda Reportedly Finalizing £10B Merger Deal With EG Group

Asda is reportedly in the midst of finalizing its merger agreement with UK-based EG Group, which operates filling stations, fast-food outlets, and convenience stores. Reportedly, the deal will include more than 500 million...

Panera Brands Promotes Exec to CEO Post Amid IPO Plans

Panera Brands Inc., an American bakery-cafe chain store, revealed it has promoted one of its high-ranking executives to become its new chief executive officer. The promotion comes as the company reportedly plans for an...

Samsung To Invest ₩30 Billion in Advancing Smart Factories for SMEs

Samsung Electronics Co. will invest 30 billion won over the next three years in its Smart Factory 3.0 project which would transform SMEs manufacturing facilities into smart factories usingartificial intelligence (AI) and...

Politics

Russia-Ukraine War: Russian Troops Replaced Wagner Fighters in Bakhmut

The Ukrainian deputy defense minister said that Russian troops were replacing the Wagner fighters in the eastern city of Bakhmut, where fighting has been taking place the longest. The minister said that Russian troops were...

North Korea Media Criticizes US, South Korea, Japan Missile Warning Agreement

North Korean state media criticized the agreement made between the United States, South Korea, and Japan that would allow the three countries to share information in real-time on the isolated nations missile launches. This...

US: Biden Nominates Air Force Chief as Top General

The White House announced this week that US President Joe Biden has appointed US Air Force Chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown to serve as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brown would become the second Black officer...

Russia-Ukraine War: Norway to Support Joint Training Programs for F-16s

Norway supports the push for joint training programs for Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets. This follows the endorsement by the United States for the training programs with Ukraine, assuring that the jets will not be used...

Japan Scrambles Fighter Jets Following Incursion of Russian 'Intelligence-Gathering' Aircraft

The Japanese defense ministry said it scrambled fighter jets after a Russian intelligence-gathering aircraft was spotted flying over the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan this week. This follows recent incidents,...

Science

Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades – how the world's most sensitive yardstick reveals secrets of the universe

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves - tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light waves, gravitational...

Why don't rocks burn?

While many rocks dont burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of and thats related to how they were formed. There are three main rock types: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. These rocks are...

Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology – and the results could revolutionize our understanding of how life works

Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. But this may one day be a...

You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are, raising ethical questions about privacy

Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and air in the environment to potentially extract identifiable information like genetic lineage, gender, and health risks, according to our new...

Theory of everything: how progress in physics depends on asking the right questions

When I began my undergraduate physics degree (around 20 years ago), What is the theory of everything? was a question that I heard often. It was used as a label for how theoretical physicists were trying to develop a deeper...

Technology

Apple Reveals Broadcom Deal to Develop 5G Components

Apple Inc. revealed it has teamed up with Broadcom Inc. for the development of 5G radio frequency parts in the United States. The companies signed a multi-billion deal for the partnership. With the cooperation between...

Apple, Masimo Lawsuit Declared a Mistrial

What is a black box? A computer scientist explains what it means when the inner workings of AIs are hidden

For some people, the term black box brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But...

AI is changing how Americans find jobs, get promoted and succeed at work

Whether we realize it or not, advancements in artificial intelligence are increasingly influencing the paths of our careers. Advancements in human capital management systems, more strategic and data-driven human...

AI is already being used in the legal system - we need to pay more attention to how we use it

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become such a part of our daily lives that its hard to avoid even if we might not recognise it. While ChatGPT and the use of algorithms in social media get lots of attention, an...

What is Bluesky and how's it different to Twitter?

Amid management changes at Twitter, discontented users are exploring an alternative social media platform called Bluesky. According to media reports, downloads of the Bluesky app surged more than 600% in...