Tech capital flows unencumbered across borders, and so should tech workers’ solidarity and action. Tech companies are the new empires of today: Alphabet annual revenue surpassed Hungary’s GDP, Facebook employs over 15000 content moderators around the world, and Microsoft has built datavcenters in nearly every corner of our planet. Yet we continue to be sold the myth that the workers of the tech industry, which spans every corner of the globe, have nothing to do with each other. To hold these tech companies accountable, tech workers in the United States have begun to organize. “Help us be Alphabet’s conscience”, proclaimed the recently-formed Alphabet […]
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Above photo: Cuban Americans rally against the Cuban government outside of the White House, July 17, 2021. Jose Luis Magana | AP. The involvement of foreign nationals in the domestic affairs of Cuba is on a level that can scarcely be conceived of in the United States. Havana -After gaining access to their private Facebook group, MintPress can reveal that the people who sparked the July 11 protests in Cuba are planning similar actions for October and November. The group, La Villa del Humor, is widely credited with providing the initial spark that ignited nationwide protests on the Caribbean island in the summer, the most significant demonstrations since […]
Four years ago, when the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX announced a new product called the “perpetual bitcoin leveraged swap,” few traders in nascent digital-asset markets could have anticipated what a major impact the obscure roll-out would have on the industry. But the instrument, which made it easy for customers to trade the equivalent of $100 of bitcoin for every $1 down, proved hugely popular and successful among risk-hungry traders, vaulting BitMEX into the top ranks of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. Now, digital-asset analysts and investors are scrambling to assess the market damage after U.S. authorities on Thursday brought a series […]
Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the strategic foresight firm Future Today Institute, thinks the world can, indeed, get worse. In her most recent book “2020 Tech Trend Report: Strategic Trends that Will Influence Business, Government, Education, Media and Society in the Coming Year,” Webb examines the companies – and the people who run them – that will make the future either a utopia or a new hell. Webb’s major idea centers around how the G-MAFIA (an invective and acronym of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Apple) and its Chinese counterpart in BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent) are […]
A token for rewarding content on a specific Reddit forum now has the unusual honor of being thousands of times bigger than the entire global economy… kind of. MOON, a community token for the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit, technically has a market cap of over $2.88 septillion (that’s 24 zeroes) at press time. That dwarves the global economy which, as per data from the World Bank, came to approximately $133 trillion in 2019. So on paper, a four-month old token, designed to reward good content on a subreddit, has “mooned” to become 2,000 times bigger than the value of everything else humanity has […]
After passing $2 billion in locked assets, there’s now more value in Uniswap than there was in the entire DeFi space on July 9. Source link
While bitcoin is eyeing an August gain for the first time in three years, the cryptocurrency is still lagging U.S. stocks over the month. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202008291080310579-bigger-than-anything-we-saw-joe-biden-pays-respects-to-chadwick-boseman/ Sad news about “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman dying of cancer after a four-year fight rocked the world earlier on Friday, causing a large number of fans, fellow actors and other prominent figures to express their grief. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden honored the memory of Marvel star Chadwick Boseman, whose death was confirmed on Friday. “The true power of @ChadwickBoseman was bigger than anything we saw on screen. From the Black Panther to Jackie Robinson, he inspired generations and showed them they can be anything they want — even super heroes. Jill and […]
As companies have to shift their business model to contend with low interest rates, the largest find themselves in a comparatively better situation. Today’s episode of The Breakdown is an extended edition of the Brief. The final topic today looks at news that some large money market funds are shifting fees from users and taking the financial hit themselves. This creates a dynamic where only the largest companies can survive long term, and reflects a key unintended consequence of low interest rates. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107927/25/1079272579_0:-1:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_f75025a179a1e0a7f79e73484e526e20.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007171079916897-bigger-than-london-eye-massive-asteroid-heads-towards-earth/ The asteroid in question was reportedly designated by NASA as potentially hazardous, as it is expected to approach our planet at a distance closer than 0.05 astronomical units. A large space rock traveling at a speed of over 46,000 kilometers per hour is expected to swoop by our planet on 24 July, according to data provided by NASA. The asteroid, 2020ND, whose 170-meter diameter would dwarf landmarks such as the London Eye, is expected to approach Earth at a distance of around 0.037 astronomical units (around 5.5 million kilometers). The US space agency has […]
This is the Democrat Party leader and the likely nominee for President of the United States. Advertisement – story continues below Joe Biden today told a crowd of supporters that George Floyd’s death was bigger than the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact the George Floyd’s death did.” 👀 pic.twitter.com/b9LzB9bbNq — ForAmerica 🇺🇸 (@ForAmerica) June 11, 2020 TRENDING: “I Should Never Have Been There” – Gen Mark Milley Stands with the Mob […]
The price of gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) steadied on Tuesday at the equivalent of $1,733 per ounce after retreating on the news of a potential coronavirus vaccine by drug maker Moderna. Gold ETFs are not equal to physical gold, as they are simply securities backed by the commodity designed to track the gold price. Gold bullion, which hit an eight-year high just before the news, lost $40 per ounce for US dollar traders by the start of Tuesday’s London trade. It has also dropped over two percent from new all-time highs in British pound and euro currency terms. “Gold sold off […]
Just in case anyone was getting too comfy, NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies is warning that two asteroids are heading towards Earth this Monday. Another one is expected to come close to us early on Tuesday. All three of the near-Earth asteroids are expected to make close approaches at some point between Monday May 18 and Tuesday May 19, at speeds of between 13,000 and 31,000 miles per hour. The first of the week’s incoming asteroids, 2020 JE2, boasts a diameter of 56 feet, or the equivalent of two London buses one in front of the other, and will fly […]
It’s Bigger Than Scrubs – My Termination From United Hospital ER By Cliff Willmeng, RN, Popular Resistance. May 11, 2020 It’s Bigger Than Scrubs – My Termination From United Hospital ER2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/mnnurses-e1589204236949.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images. St. Paul, MN – During the course of my May 8, 2020, shift, I was brought into two meetings with managers of United Hospital’s Emergency Room and two representatives from its Human Relations department. By the end of the second meeting, I was informed that I was terminated from employment for the following reason, as stated by United Hospital: “Cliff’s conduct on April 24, 2020 violated the […]