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SOCIAL MEDIA
X Announces NBA Portal To Encourage Sports Engagement
In the competition between X and Threads to become the real-time social media app of choice, sports is a key battleground, which is why both platforms are now looking to make sports engagement a bigger focus in their apps. X has made the latest play on this front, with the introduction of a new NBA Portal activation, an in-app destination…
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ENTERTAINMENT
Driver charged with manslaughter, homicide in East New York school bus hit-and-run • Brooklyn Paper
A Brooklyn man was charged for a deadly hit-and-run on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia Commons A Brooklyn man was indicted Wednesday for an East New York hit-and-run that left his passenger dead and another driver injured. Tyree Epps was charged on April 9 with second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault, speeding, driving without a license, disobeying stop…
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LIFESTYLE
Weekend Guide: Murs, Smorgasburg + More
It may be a dirty word in our nation’s capital, but “diversity” is the name of the game here at Weekend Guide. We’ve got events of all kinds on the slate this week: readings, screenings, concerts, performances, DJ nights, festivals, food markets, and even a ferris wheel opening. Anything from the list below is guaranteed to be a great time,…
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REAL ESTATE
NYC seizes building from negligent landlord for first time in seven years
Streetview of 2205 Davidson Avenue, Map data © 2024 Google New York City has taken ownership of a building from a negligent landlord for the first time in over seven years. After a decade of organizing by tenants against landlord David Kornitzer, the city has foreclosed on the 49-unit building at 2201–2205 Davidson Avenue in the University Heights section of…
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CRYPTO
Meanwhile raises $40M to bring BTC life insurance to inflation-prone economies
Crypto startup Meanwhile has raised $40 million to scale its Bitcoin-denominated life insurance business, targeting so-called “inflation-prone economies” where policyholders may seek alternatives to traditional fiat-based payouts. The Series A investment round was led by Framework Ventures and Fulgur Ventures, with additional participation from Xapo founder Wences Casares, the company disclosed on April 10. Meanwhile previously secured $20.5 million in…
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FINANCE
“Let’s See What He Says First”
We recently published a list of Jim Cramer Talked About These 8 Stocks. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer discusses. On Friday, Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money, expressed concern over President Donald Trump’s focus on the long-term benefits of tariffs as he…
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ECONOMY
How Household Saving Affects Monetary Policy Spillovers
Sushant Acharya, Ozge Akinci, Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, and Paolo A. Pesenti As covered in the first post in this series, the international transmission of monetary policy shocks features positive output spillovers when the so-called expenditure-switching effect is sufficiently large. Departing from textbook analysis, this post zooms in on the implications of differences across market participants with respect to their consumption preferences…
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MARKET
Is the Nippon Steel bid dead? Here’s the latest as U.S. Steel’s stock plunges again.
“We don’t want it to go to Japan or any other place, and we’re working with them,” President Donald Trump said of U.S. Steel. Source link
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SOCIAL MEDIA
X Tests Expanded DM Functionality, Including Full Encryption and File Sharing
X continues to work on its coming revamp of DMs in the app, with the platform looking to enhance its messaging service to be able to compete with dedicated messaging apps. Which X owner Elon Musk has repeatedly stated is just one of his grand ambitions for the app, providing more utility within the platform to facilitate more of your…
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GADGET
Global emissions due to AI-related chipmaking grew more than four times in 2024
A pair of studies analyzing the effects of AI on our planet have been released and the news is fairly grim. Greenpeace generated from the production of the semiconductors used in AI chips and found that there was a fourfold increase in 2024. This analysis was completed using publicly available data. Greenpeace Many of the big chipmakers like NVIDIA rely…
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