The Shiba Inu (SHIB-USD) digital coin has risen from obscurity (or meme status, depending on who you ask) to become the hottest trade in cryptocurrency.  Already, wild stories have emerged about small investors making a fortune on the digital coin bearing the likeness of a canine. For the uninitiated, Shiba Inu should not be confused with Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) — another dog-faced digital currency. Coincidentally, Doge also started life as a joke of sorts, en route to becoming one of the… Source link

LISBON, PORTUGAL – NOVEMBER 08: Megan Jones Bell, Headspace, at the HealthConf stage during day … [+] three of Web Summit 2018 at the Altice Arena on November 8, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2018, more than 70,000 attendees from over 170 countries will fly to Lisbon for Web Summit, including over 1,500 startups, 1,200 speakers and 2,600 international journalists. (Photo by David Fitzgerald /Web Summit via Getty Images) Web Summit via Getty Images Megan Jones… Source link

An unclassified version of an intelligence community assessment on the origins of COVID-19 released Friday afternoon shows that various agencies still don’t agree on whether the pandemic began from a laboratory incident in Wuhan, China, or was caused by a natural crossover from animals to humans. In the spring, President Biden ordered the intelligence community to conduct a 90-day review looking at the pandemic’s origins in China, amid growing debate and questions on the issue. The virus… Source link

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizing Pfizer (PFE)’s COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds on Friday is welcome news for millions of parents across the country. Roughly 28 million children are now eligible for vaccination, according to the New York Times. “If you look at a lot of the data, you’ll see that younger people, teenagers, small children, they’ve been responsible for a lot of the transmission of coronavirus,” Dr. Adrian Burrowes, a family medicine physician… Source link

It’s been a huge week for Tesla (TSLA).  Shares jumped to new highs as the market cap of the pure-play electric vehicle maker topped $1 trillion for the first time, making it the 5th most valuable company in the S&P 500 (^GSPC) — and sending Elon Musk’s personal fortune north of $300 billion. A huge deal with Hertz buying 100,000 Teslas for its rental fleet, and a big bullish note from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas had shares jumping. But it also follows a big earnings report in the… Source link

Some of the biggest technology companies in the world, Google and Microsoft, are reinforcing their relationships with U.S. community colleges.  “Today, we’re so excited to announce that all of our Google career certificates will be available for free, to every community college in the United States and to every career and technical high school in the United States,” Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, tells CNBC Make It. “One of the other things we actually announced today, which I… Source link

Next year’s Pixel 7 might look slightly different, but it’s likely to continue utilizing Google’s TPU chip. Photo: Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are just now arriving on buyers’ doorsteps, and we’re already talking about what’s next for Google’s flagship Android lineup. Evidence points to a next-gen Tensor chip in the Pixel 7. According to 9to5Google, whose tear-apart team tinkered with the apps built into the Pixel 6, there’s a clear indicator that a… Source link

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Count Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as a believer in crypto as a payments medium.  “Yes I am in that camp that crypto will be used effectively,” said Wozniak — also a panelist on the new show “Unicorn Hunters” — said Yahoo Finance Live. “We just have so much digital ways to pay for things now, even to transfer money to people. It goes back to PayPal, and now we have Apple Pay and Apple Cash. We have Venmo. So crypto has just a bit of anonymity. I don’t know if that’s right that, gosh I… Source link

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