Bankers revel in crypto’s crash- POLITICO
With help from Derek Robertson Joe Raedle/Getty Images It’s been a rough stretch for the world’s top central bankers, who are facing pressure to tame high prices without crashing their economies now that persistent inflation has defied their predictions. It doesn’t help that they face this challenge amid an explosion of interest in cryptocurrencies, a […]
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Nepal plans to move Everest base camp due to global warming
Nepal plans to move a base camp at the foot of Everest further down the mountain because global warming and human activity is making the current one unstable. Experts say the Khumbu glacier, a 10-mile ‘river of ice’ on which the campsite is located, is rapidly melting and thinning, which makes it unsafe for visitors. […]
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Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting fast and could raise sea levels by 11ft by end of century
With the potential to raise global sea levels, Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has been widely nicknamed the ‘Doomsday Glacier.’ Now, a study has revealed just how quickly the enormous glacier is melting – and warns it could lead to a global sea level rise of up to 11 feet (3.4 metres) over the next several centuries. […]
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Elon Musk | Tiktok: ‘Is TikTok destroying civilization?’ Elon Musk tweets, even as he wishes Twitter to be like it
New Delhi: Days after reports revealed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Twitter staff at a meeting on Thursday he wanted the microblogging site to be more like TikTok and WeChat, the tech mogul shared a cryptic tweet early Saturday, asking if TikTok is “destroying civilization.” Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so. — […]
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Flexible Telecom Travel Coverage : T-Mobile Coverage Beyond
T-Mobile Coverage Beyond is being launched by the telecom brand as part of its ongoing Un-carrier campaign to provide travelers with access to data when traveling to an array of locations. The new coverage announcement will see subscribers with access to data in more than 210 countries around the world as well as free in-flight […]
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Kim Kardashian Didn’t Damage Marilyn Monroe’s Dress, Ripley’s Museum Says
NEW YORK (AP) — Ripley’s Believe It or Not! on Thursday denied claims that Kim Kardashian’s wearing of the iconic Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday” dress left it with new damage. ChadMichael Morrisette, who owns a mannequin supply company and once handled the skintight sparkler briefly worn by Kardashian at the Met Gala, said he spotted […]
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Apple workers in Maryland vote on whether to unionize
Placeholder while article actions load Apple workers in Towson, Md., voted to join a union on Saturday, becoming the first of the tech giant’s U.S. retail stores to do so. The vote means workers at the store plan to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers once a contract is ratified. Saturday evening’s […]
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How to Quote Someone on Discord
By quoting text, you make a piece of text stand out in your Discord messages. There are options to quote specific text in a text string as well as quote entire lines of text on this platform. We’ll show you how to do just that. Note that the steps to quote text are the same […]
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Canada’s Rogers and Shaw reach a deal to sell Shaw’s Freedom Mobile to rival Quebecor for $2.2B, a major step in solving antitrust concerns about their merger (Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg)
TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users’ data to Oracle’s servers in the US — TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users’ information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters.
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Are We Really Headed for 1970s-Style Inflation?
Bloomberg “estimates that U.S. households will have to spend an extra $5,200 this year, or about $433 a month, for the same consumption basket.” “This is a major shock to a whole generation of consumers who had become accustomed to little or no inflation.” Larry Summers: “I’m probably as apprehensive about the prospects for a […]
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