Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings held a call Sunday with Elon Musk about the potential to make mining greener. Musk’s announcement about the call — on Twitter, of course — sent bitcoin surging earlier this week. Prior to the call, Tesla reversed its position on bitcoin, saying it would no longer accept crypto for car
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Tina Smith, D-Minn., introduced legislation Wednesday allocating mandatory funding to build child care availability over the long term and treat child care like the critical infrastructure that it is for families.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A Southern California couple decided to pay it forward by slipping cash into baby products at local Target stores. Krystal Duhaney, a mother of two children, posted a video on her Instagram account of her inserting money into diaper boxes and formula cans. “Being
Continue ReadingJames Bond, meet Jeff Bezos. Amazon is investing even more heavily in growing its position in the entertainment world. The company announced Wednesday that it made a deal to acquire MGM, the home of James Bond and one of the most iconic movie studios in Hollywood. The deal, which is valued at $8.45 billion, gives
Continue ReadingIf you step out the door on a clear, dark night at this time of year, you’ll find the great constellation called Ursa Major high in the sky below Polaris, the pole star. You might even be able to pick out a small star there, in the middle of the handle of the Big Dipper.
Continue ReadingFacebook and Instagram are giving all users the option to hide public “likes” on their posts, potentially upending a core dynamic of the social media platforms where like counts are seen as a sign of a person’s influence. The social media giant has since 2019 been testing the ability for users to hide like counts,
Continue ReadingA hedge fund that’s criticized ExxonMobil’s climate strategy won enough shareholder support to oust two directors from the oil giant’s board, a major loss for the once-mighty company. For the first time in modern history, America’s largest oil company faced a credible challenge from an activist investor, Engine No. 1. Upset with Exxon’s financial performance
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Deputies in Henderson County are searching for a 250-pound quartz crystal cluster that was stolen from a local gem mine. Authorities say the cluster was stolen from the Elijah Mountain Gem Mine on Brevard Road just outside Laurel Park sometime between May
Continue ReadingRep. Jody Hice says former President Donald Trump would’ve won the 2020 election in Georgia if it were “fair.” He says that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent out 700,000 ballot applications to “illegal voters,” and that there’s going to be “some fraud mixed up in there.” To Hice, those “hundreds and hundreds of
Continue ReadingFord is doubling down on electric vehicle development, announcing Wednesday it will invest $30 billion in electrification efforts by 2025. The automaker also pledged that 40% of its vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric. Ford had previously announced plans to spend $22 billion on electrification efforts and had recently revealed plans to build two
Continue ReadingClose, but no passing the bar this time for Kim Kardashian. In a clip released Wednesday from her family’s show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” she confides in her sisters Kourtney and Khloe that she failed her law test. “So you guys, I did not pass the baby bar,” the reality star and aspiring lawyer
Continue ReadingA gunman opened fire at a public transit rail yard in San Jose, California, Wednesday morning, causing multiple casualties and fatalities, Deputy Russell Davis of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said. The male suspect is dead, he said. Employees of the Valley Transportation Authority were among the victims, and the extent of their injuries
Continue ReadingI adopted my daughter from foster care. It took a specialized village to help her succeed. The day our daughter toddled around a corner of her foster mother’s house in a peach pantsuit and flashed my husband and me a mischievous grin, we knew we were her parents. We also knew we had made the
Continue ReadingMGM, a classic Hollywood brand synonymous with “The Wizard of Oz” and Leo the roaring lion, was purchased for $8.45 billion on Wednesday by Amazon, a company currently valued at nearly $1.7 trillion. Being gobbled up by a tech behemoth is a fitting finale for a studio that has been whittled down over the last
Continue ReadingSofia Sapega, the Russian girlfriend of Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, appeared in a video overnight after the pair were detained, allegedly “confessing” to working for a social media channel that publishes personal data of government employees. The video comes a day after a similar one featuring Protasevich, 26, in detention “confessing” to organizing mass
Continue ReadingA shooting at a public transit control center in San Jose, California, Wednesday morning left multiple casualties and fatalities, Deputy Russell Davis of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said. The suspect is dead, he said. Employees of the Valley Transportation Authority were among the victims, and the extent of the victims’ injuries was not
Continue ReadingShares of Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid dropped Wednesday following a report that Amazon is considering opening brick-and-mortar pharmacies in the United States. Walgreens dropped 4%, CVS fell 2% and Rite Aid was off 3% during mid-morning trading. Business Insider reported early Wednesday that Amazon is eying opening physical stores in a “handful” of locations,
Continue ReadingOne of New York City’s newer tourist attractions is reopening to the public with a focus on suicide prevention after three young adults took their own lives there over the last year. The climbable, 150-foot-tall staircase, known as the “Vessel,” located at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, closed for visitors in January after a 21-year-old man
Continue ReadingWhatsApp has sued the Indian government in a bid to block new rules it says would lead to “mass surveillance” by forcing social media platforms to hand over private information about their users. The company confirmed Wednesday that such a complaint has been filed with the Delhi High Court. CNN Business has asked for a
Continue ReadingOriginally intended to help launch HBO Max, “Friends: The Reunion” finally hits the streaming service, in big, slightly bloated, unapologetically nostalgic form. A valentine to fans, the nearly two-hour special is inevitably hard-pressed to justify the hype, working best when it lets the cast casually reminisce, while getting carried away with cameos, some of which,
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