Blockstream Buys Demeester’s Adamant in Expansion Into Bitcoin Investment Products – Yahoo Finance

Bloomberg Merkel’s Twilight Months Cloud German Crisis Rebound: Eco Week (Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast.The Germany economy is enduring a moment of flux as it tries to shake off the coronavirus crisis, just as the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel draws to a close.In just four months on Wednesday, voters will choose a new government in an election that augurs a turning point as she leaves a political void after 13… Source link

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Virgin Galactic moves one step closer to commercial space flights

By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Flying at Mach 3 and reaching more than 55 miles above the Earth Saturday, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s private spaceship company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico. This is a milestone in Branson’s near two-decades effort to create a commercial “spaceline” to take paying customers into outer space. Touted as the first human spaceflight from the state, Branson’s SpaceShipTwo craft… Source link

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Elizabeth Hurley, 55, defends her bikini photos

Refinery29 An Exhaustive List Of Skimpy (& Supportive) Plus-Size Bikinis Skimpy bikinis are great! Honestly, truly. There are minimal tan lines, they’re easy to adjust, and — if you find one that really fits — they are actually really comfortable, too (there’s no pinching or chafing common to fuller-coverage bottoms). The cons? At many swimwear brands, revealing suits are often only available in straight sizes, or, the plus sets they do carry are somehow more modest, as if plus… Source link

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Why You Should Never Use Google Chrome On Your iPhone, iPad Or Mac

If you’re among the billions of people using Chrome, then Google has just given you a seriously good reason to quit. The exposure of stark data harvesting and the quiet introduction of “creepy” new tracking is the best reason in years to switch browsers. Now, for Apple users, there are even more reasons you should make a change. With Chrome, as with Photos, Gmail and Maps, you need to remember that Google is in the ad business, not the app business. Its entire business model is… Source link

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Klay Thompson has ‘never been hungrier’ to return after loss

The Guardian Tim Tebow’s NFL resurrection is no gimmick, but it’s very much a farce The Jaguars signed the faded college star to their 90-man roster, reuniting first-year Jacksonville coach Urban Meyer with his former quarterback. It’s official: Tebow Time is a flat circle Tim Tebow and wife Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters attend UFC 261 at Jacksonville’s VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in April. Photograph: Alex Menendez/Getty Images You can be forgiven for forgetting all about Tim Tebow, unless… Source link

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An alarming number of Americans are unvaccinated despite wanting a jab

Though the number of vaccinated Americans continues to rise, there is still a significant amount of the population that has yet to receive their COVID-19 shots. And while some have no plans of getting vaccinated for various personal or political reasons, others would like to but are having trouble obtaining or making time for a vaccination appointment. “Hesitancy makes a better story because you’ve got controversy,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease… Source link

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Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store – TechCrunch

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

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Data highlights the difference in perceived and actual value of a college degree in America

The expected income and wealth boost from earning a college degree has slowly been shrinking while the cost of college and student debt burden has been rising, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).  The so-called “college premium” steadily rose throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, but the growth began to slow by the mid-1990s, EPI found. (A 2018 report from the St. Louis Fed noted that this was an ongoing trend, particularly for people of color.) (EPI) At the same… Source link

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