“If you had to point to one reason [crypto prediction markets] are able to come back to the US, you have to point to the Trump administration,” says Zach Hamilton, founder of crypto startup Sarcophagus, in an interview with WIRED. “Donald Trump. I mean, that’s it.”Even before the arrival of Truth Predict, the Trump family had a financial interest in the spread of prediction markets in the US.In January, Donald Trump Jr. joined Kalshi as a strategic adviser. Then, in August, Polymarket received an investment from 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm where Trump Jr. serves as a partner. As…
Before today’s Quordle hints and answers, here’s what you missed on Monday:Hey, folks! Hints and the answers for today’s Quordle words are just ahead.How To Play QuordleFor any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine…
Note: Make sure to complete today’s NYT Connections before reading further! We’ll be getting into spoilers for today’s game pretty quickly. If you need some help to complete the grid, you can find my NYT Connections hints and answers column for today on my author page (I’ll update this with…
The project is environmentally sustainable in other ways. More than 95 percent of its electricity comes from offshore wind turbines. Overall, the designers estimate that this reduces energy consumption by 22.8 percent. Huang Dinan, president of Shenergy Group, another of the project’s contractors, noted that the East China Sea offers…
After the Amazon’s huge Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price drop, Samsung and other retailers have launched a raft of new offers and discount codes that slash the price of most of the company’s smartphones.This story was updated on November 1st with a new Samsung voucher code. Last week, Samsung…
US president Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Zhao, widely known as CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions. The plea formed part of a sweeping deal with the US Department of Justice, under which Binance was…
In cannabis media, size used to be the story. Bigger audiences. Louder drops. Flashier strain names. But the center of gravity is shifting. A new tier of creators is training people to judge smoke, not just talk about it. Method, standards and palate become the product. Entertainment is the format.…
Jim Sanborn couldn’t believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for 35 years. As always, wannabe solvers kept on paying him a $50 fee to offer their guesses to the remaining unsolved portion…
If you head over to the Google homepage, you’ll notice the Halloween spirit on full display. Today’s Google Doodle is a spooky take on one of the most famous arcade games: Pac-Man.This is not the first time Google has released a version of Pac-Man as its playable Doodle. In 2010,…
On Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be “a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” and “a necessary step towards…
Following the release of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, which was entirely amazing, we now have the first two games done in the same way, and they’re equally great.The reason for this order of releases is that the third game was actually the first game in the Erdrick Trilogy narrative,…
When the Harris Poll surveyed marketing executives at last week’s ANA Masters of Marketing conference, only 30% said they’d recommend their profession to young people. Meanwhile, 44% suggested electrician careers instead.That divide isn’t about pessimism. It’s about strategy.The conference revealed a widening competitive gap – not between companies using AI…
Then I got my wife the Model S for Christmas. I started driving that around, and I’m like, I kind of like this. I put an order back in for the Cybertruck and I started building the excitement after that.How do you feel about it now?Oh, I love it. Now,…
Last night Ukrainian drone struck Moscow, with one dramatic image showing a mobile air defence outside the Kremlin. There have been several previous drone attacks on the Russian capital, but this is different. Now Russian commanders are marshalling forces to defend the city against a sustained onslaught.It looks like the…
A cryptocurrency promoted in January by US first lady Melania Trump was part of a sophisticated fraud that “leveraged celebrity association and ‘borrowed fame’ to sell legitimacy to unsuspecting investors,” a new legal filing has alleged.In April, crypto investors brought a federal class action lawsuit against Benjamin Chow, cofounder of…
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