Summary List Placement Good morning and welcome to 10 Things in Tech. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Here’s what you need to know today. 1. Coinbase warns the crypto market could tumble if bitcoin’s anonymous creator is identified. While filing to go public, Coinbase noted that should the creator be revealed […]
Continue ReadingInside the Wizards of the Coast HQ in Renton, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Hasbro, the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, is reorganizing its business structure in order to continue growing the audience for Dungeons & Dragons. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wizards of the Coast, based in Renton, Wash., posted […]
Continue ReadingBloomberg’s Tim O’Brien, one of the few journalists who has seen former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday night he will sleep better now that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance finally has eight years of Trump’s financial documents, from 2011 to 2019. Trump “is very afraid of what’s in these […]
Continue ReadingMarco Restivo / Barcroft Media via Getty Moving a home through the streets of San Francisco, ski jumping in Germany, hiking the Great Wall in China, visiting a ski resort in Tehran, opening a “hug room” in Rome, taking a vaccination selfie in Spain, surfing in front of Mount Fuji, walking a snow maze in […]
Continue ReadingSenate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Thursday effectively killed a Democratic push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, ruling that the measure doesn’t pass muster under the budget reconciliation rules Democrats are using to pass the package with a simple majority in the Senate. Two […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement President Joe Biden heads to Texas on Friday to tour some of the hardest hit areas of the state, but while he’s there, he won’t be meeting with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. That’s because Cruz has a speaking engagement that day at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. He’ll be […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement Tiger Woods’ future on the golf course looks to be in jeopardy following a horrific car accident. One former pro golfer who is now an orthopedic surgeon is optimistic Woods can compete again. Based on his competitiveness, if anybody can do it, it would be Tiger, and we collected 26 examples. Read […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement A federal judge in Texas ruled that an eviction moratorium put into place by the Centers for Disease Control and supported by former President Donald Trump is unconstitutional. US District Judge John Barker in the Eastern District of Texas said that the creation of such a moratorium “criminalizes the use of state […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement Sen. Bernie Sanders said Democrats would try to devise a backdoor to implement a $15 minimum wage after a pay hike was struck from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package on Thursday evening — a major setback for progressives. Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough ruled that a $15 minimum wage violated the strict guidelines […]
Continue ReadingThe new reference dataset includes 64 assembled genomes representing 25 different human populations from around the globe. (Getty Images via Univ. of Washington) Twenty years after the first human genome sequence was published, an international research team has kicked the sequencing game to the next level with a set of 64 reference genomes that reflect […]
Continue ReadingThe effort to remove Vancouver Coun. Michael Wiebe from office was launched with “heavy influence from a political party,” his lawyer told B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday. But the opposing lawyer, representing Vancouver voters seeking Wiebe’s ouster, said any political differences were “irrelevant,” and the politician had clearly broken conflict rules by “wearing two hats” […]
Continue ReadingVICTORIA — Five years have passed since premier Christy Clark made a bold and expensive promise to get the Site C project, then already under construction, “past the point of no return.” For political purposes, her main object was to portray her B.C. Liberals as the government of “yes” versus the New Democrats and their leader, […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement This is a preview of The Global Small Business Neobanks research report from Insider Intelligence. Purchase this report. Insider Intelligence offers even more fintech coverage with Fintech Pro. Subscribe today to receive industry-changing finance news and analysis to your inbox. Neobanks — digital-only banks with industry-leading capabilities that don’t operate physical branches […]
Continue ReadingDespite the economic uncertainty brought by the pandemic, B.C.’s real estate market is heating up, with record-low interest rates fuelling the fire. Single-family homes are attracting bidding wars and selling for way over asking, which has the B.C. Real Estate Association predicting 2021 sales will be on par with the halcyon days of 2016. This […]
Continue Reading