The crypto crash isn’t the only way the decentralized currency can lose its holders a lot of real money. The FTC says 46,000 people reported losing more than $1 billion worth of crypto in scams between January 2021 and March 2022, noting that this number is only the people who reported their losses to the […]
People have many feelings about bitcoin. One oft-cited example is that it uses more energy than the annual consumption in countries like Finland or Denmark — and that’s concerning in a world that’s already on track to blow past its climate goals, thanks in large part to fossil fuel emissions from energy consumption. That problem […]
That same year, as the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the country in March 2020, medical marijuana businesses were declared essential, allowing them to remain open along with pharmacies and grocery stores. As of 2020, one in three Americans lived in a state with access to legal marijuana, according to Politico, and that number is quickly growing […]
If it’s been a minute since you’ve seen The Matrix, or the other two films in the Matrix trilogy, don’t worry: The new film, The Matrix Resurrections, functions as more of a reboot than a sequel, so you don’t need to have every detail of the original franchise under your belt. Warning: The rest of […]
“How” is still a question, though — the conclusion to the first trilogy of MCU Spider-Man movies may have also left some wondering about what exactly happened. The conduit to these events is Doctor Strange — from other timelines, i.e. Marvel could, of course, make those rules more solid or provide a better explanation in […]
Throughout the skit, Strong ineffectually tries to clown — her spinning bowtie winds up tilting vertically, her attempt at making a balloon animal results in failure, her clown horn refuses to honk. The effect is twofold: As she proceeds through the sketch, the words “clown abortion” become increasingly discomfiting and absurd, arguably highlighting the absurdity […]
Cryptocurrency was first created as an alternative to traditional financial institutions. Banks and financial institutions that offer Mastercard credit and debit cards can now enable customers to pay down their balance and earn loyalty points with bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that the Bakkt platform supports. This will give the holders of more than 2.8 billion Mastercards […]
The new prompt warns users that the results they are seeing are changing quickly, and reads, in part, “If this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for results to be added by reliable sources.” Google confirmed to Recode that it started testing the feature about a week ago. But the kind of label […]
The remarkable thing about The Handmaid’s Tale’s fourth season, which wrapped up with a bloody and beautiful finale Wednesday, is how completely it snaps a sometimes-wayward story back into focus. Season four does something I’ve never quite seen a TV show do, which is that it tells a story that retroactively makes sense of its […]
Even as hundreds of thousands of lives were lost, millions of people were laid off and businesses shuttered, protests against police violence erupted across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, and the outgoing president refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election — supposedly the market’s nightmare scenario — for weeks, […]