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The Guardian | Dan Milmo  | Jul 1, 2022 The EU has moved to rein in the “wild west” of crypto assets by agreeing a groundbreaking set of rules for the sector, adding to pressure on the UK and US to act too. Representatives from the European parliament and EU states inked an agreement on

The Verge | Emma Roth | Jul 2, 2022 Cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in a bid to protect its US assets from creditors in the country, as reported earlier by Bloomberg and CNBC. Representatives for the Singapore-based company made the filing in a Southern District New York

SolidBlock | Miriam Green | Jun 9, 2022 SolidBlock is making history by being the first company to offer NFTs as a booking tool for the hotel industry in the United States. Launched in May 2022, NFTstays is a reservation system that enables hotels to increase their revenue and occupancy rates by tapping into the

The Tyee | Christopher Cheung  | Mar 15, 2022 Where did support for the Canada’s convoy protests come from? Thanks to a data leak, we have a rough idea. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” began in B.C.’s Lower Mainland and traversed the country before converging in Ottawa on Jan. 29. The protests attracted people with a

Jul 4, 2022 Most people consider rental properties to be a form of passive income. In its very essence, it is, yet it is not as simple as buying a place and putting it aside for the time being. Once you find a suitable place that will make a good rental property to buy, there

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CPO Magazine | Alicia Hope | Jun 23, 2022 Two-thirds of companies that suffered cyber attacks were hit again within a year, according to a global Cymulate Data Breaches Study.  According to the report, 40% of the businesses were attacked within 12 months, with an average of 1.3 cyber attacks per year. However, 10% of the

CFTC | Release | Jun 30, 2022 Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against Cornelius Johannes Steynberg of South Africa and Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI), a South African company, alleging that they operated a fraudulent scheme

Techcrunch | Lucas Matney | Jul 1, 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX is taking advantage of rampant instability in the crypto lending market to assert itself while propping up major institutions. The company’s U.S.-based arm has a deal in place with troubled crypto lender BlockFi that gives them the option to buy the startup, recently valued

Quanta Magazine | Allison Whitten | Jun 24, 2022 Smart beings learn by interacting with the world.... artificial intelligence researchers have adopted a similar strategy to teach their virtual agents new skills. In 2009, a computer scientist then at Princeton University named Fei-Fei Li invented a data set that would change the history of artificial

The Economist | Jun 28, 2022 No year was fatter than 2021 According to cb Insights, a research firm, global tech startups raised $621bn in 2021. That is twice as much as the year before and ten times more than in 2012. Then the music stopped. First to feel it were publicly traded firms. nasdaq

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Some 68% of chief financial officers expect a recession to occur during the first half of 2023, according to a CNBC survey. Here's how to prep your portfolio.

July 2, 2022 Even though no one wants to think about it, there could come a time when you can't pay your car insurance premium. If this happens to you, the best thing you can do is learn about the effects and take steps to fix the problem. Here's what happens if you don't pay