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‘Black Swan’ author Nassim Taleb compared bitcoin to a disease, called it a speculative bubble, and warned it was worthless. Here are his 8 best tweets about the crypto.
Nassim Taleb. Mohd Zakir/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Nassim Taleb has compared bitcoin to a disease and called it worthless ...
JPMorgan says ethereum is losing ground to rivals in the NFT market, which could boost the likes of solana
CryptoPunks are some of the most popular NFTs. Rokas Tenys High gas fees and congestion have pushed NFT apps away ...
The world’s largest iPhone factory is offerings $1,500 signing bonuses — more than a month’s salary — to lure workers amid China’s Omicron lockdowns
Apple supplier Foxconn is offering signing bonuses for returning and new workers at its Zhengzhou facilities in China. Carlos Garcia ...
10 major airlines have signed a letter warning of massive flight disruptions and supply-chain chaos as AT&T and Verizon plan to roll out 5G services
AT&T and Verizon’s 5G service deployment is facing pushback from airlines due to safety concerns. Shutterstock.com AT&T and Verizon’s 5G ...
The Enigma — a 555-carat black gem and the largest diamond ever auctioned — can be purchased with cryptocurrency
A 555.55-carat black diamond called The Enigma is up for auction, and Sotheby’s is accepting cryptocurrency in payment. Giuseppe CACACE ...
China’s claim of a Beijing man getting infected with Omicron through Canadian mail is ‘extraordinary,’ Canada’s health minister says
China has struggled with its COVID-zero policy in recent months, as fresh outbreaks emerge across the nation and Omicron cases ...
A Capitol rioter who pleaded guilty this week compared January 6 to a ‘modern day Boston Massacre’ and said Ashli Babbitt was ‘viciously assassinated’
A Capitol rioter who pleaded guilty to entering the building compared the attack on the Capitol to the Boston massacre ...
Mike Lindell’s latest hire for his Frank Speech broadcast channel is a former Newsmax host who once claimed that vaccines contain satanic trackers
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is interviewed by the One America News Network during former U.S. president Donald Trump’s rally at ...
A former Buckingham Palace royal protection officer says he suspected Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew had an ‘intimate relationship,’ according to a new documentary
Ghislaine Maxwell on October 18, 2016 in New York City. Photo by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images A former ...
A French court has fined a far-right presidential candidate over hate speech and convicted him of inciting racial hatred
Éric Zemmour, the French presidential candidate, delivered a speech in Villepinte, France last month. Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images A French ...
A judge ordered a Minnesota COVID-19 patient be flown to Texas so he’d stay on a ventilator after hospital planned to disconnect him
Ventilator tubes are attached to a COVID-19 patient AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File A COVID-19 patient was relocated to a ...
Excellent CX requires proper organizational structure and team setup
Sometimes companies can get in their own way of delivering great customer experience (CX). Many companies organized in a product- ...
Transgender-rights activists will not be charged over posting photo of author JK Rowling’s home online, reports say
Activists have criticized JK Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series, for her comments about transgender people. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP ...
Digital Trust Benchmark Report 2021 Preview
In our Digital Trust Benchmark Report, we analyze the data from our fifth annual “US Digital Trust Survey” to evaluate ...
A megachurch pastor in Oklahoma apologized for a demonstration during his sermon ‘being too extreme and disgusting’ when he rubbed spit on a churchgoer’s face
Reza Estakhrian/Getty Images Reza Estakhrian/Getty Images Oklahoma pastor Mike Todd apologized for rubbing his spit on a person’s face during ...
New trucking vaccine mandate is likely to make fruit and vegetables more expensive
Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Vaccine mandates for truckers that haul goods over the US-Canada ...
Influencer marketing stats: How creators have impacted businesses in 2021
Nearly 68% of US marketers from companies with 100 or more employees will use influencer marketing in 2021. And influencer ...
Mississippi’s Jackson airport evacuated passengers and employees after receiving ‘verbal security threat’
Stephen Brashear / Stringer / Getty Images Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport evacuated passengers and employees on Monday. The Mississippi ...
Warriors co-owner Chamath Palihapitiya says the ‘ugly truth’ is ‘nobody cares about what’s happening’ to Uyghur Muslims in China
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital, presents during the 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York. Brendan McDermid/Reuters ...
A Silicon Valley city will use lasers and a boombox to try and scare away crows after other methods failed
Stan Tekiela. Sunnyvale, CA plans to use lasers to scare away crows that have been hanging out in its downtown. ...
The majority of PPP loans went to business owners and high-earning households, a new study shows
As much as three-quarters of PPP loans extended in 2020 went to business owners and shareholders, not employees. AP Photo/David ...
US airlines are combating the pilot shortage by raising pay, lowering requirements, and hiring from Australia
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-900ER. Ted S. Warren / Associated Press Airlines are once again bracing for a shortage ...
Biden pleads for passage of voting rights bills in speech on MLK Day: ‘The attack on our democracy is real’
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at the COP26 United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on ...
Three major cruise lines just postponed sailings on 18 ships — here are all the cruises that have been canceled amid the Omicron surge
Royal Caribbean’s Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship docked in Hong Kong in October 2021. Tyrone Siu/Reuters Norwegian has postponed ...
Janet Yellen says in MLK Day speech that the US economy has ‘never worked fairly for Black Americans’
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen attends the House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington on September 30, 2021. Al Drago/Pool/Reuters Janet ...
Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood points to El Salvador’s bitcoin push as one way innovation is making people’s lives better
A woman withdraws money from a bitcoin ATM in El Salvador. Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cathie Wood noted ...
Warren Buffett missed out on $10 billion in gains by dumping Wells Fargo stock — but he probably doesn’t regret cashing out
Warren Buffett. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway missed out on $10 billion in gains by dumping Wells Fargo stock. ...
Bitcoin is losing its dominance over other cryptocurrencies in payments to merchants, crypto processor BitPay says
Blue bitcoin Yuichiro Chino Bitcoin’s leaderboard position in crypto payments to merchants is falling, according to BitPay. Bitcoin use at ...
Fauci says pushback against ‘easy-to-understand’ COVID-19 protection measures like mask-wearing and vaccination is ‘very disturbing’
Dr. Anthony Fauci is US President Joe Biden’s chief medical officer. Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images Pushback against public health measures to ...
Meet the typical Walmart shopper, a 59-year-old white suburban woman earning $80,000 a year
REUTERS/ Kevork Djansezian Walmart has more than 3,500 Supercenters across the US and made $555 billion in sales last year. ...
