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Maddison Peel Less than a year ago, Maddison Peel was making $12 an hour at a Kentucky McDonald’s. One week after her TikTok of roasting a chicken went viral, she quit. Now, she makes up to $10k a month and has brand deals with Walmart, Heinz, and Kroger. Just under a year ago, 22-year-old Maddison Peel was working at a McDonald’s in Kentucky, where she was paid $12 an hour. Now, she says she makes between $5,000 and $10,000 a month by posting food recipes on TikTok. Better known by her handle… Source link

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it would start slowing its pace of asset purchases, the first step in paring back its COVID-era easy money policies. “In light of the substantial further progress the economy has made toward the committee’s goals since last December, the Committee decided to begin reducing the monthly pace of its net asset purchases,” the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in its updated policy statement Wednesday. Since the depths of the pandemic, the… Source link

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder. Alex Wong/Getty Images An Amazon worker on leave emailed Jeff Bezos to say she’d been underpaid, The New York Times said. A subsequent investigation found that Amazon was systematically underpaying some workers on leave. A spokesperson told The Times that Amazon was still identifying underpaid workers. An email sent to Jeff Bezos from an Amazon worker who was on leave triggered an internal investigation that exposed flaws with the company’s payroll system, The New… Source link

A visitor takes a photo in front of digital work “Untitled (Self-Portrait)” by Andy Warhol and digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, at the Digital Art Fair, in Hong Kong, China September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu Since NBA Top Shots and artist Beeple’s digital collage that sold from Christie’s for $69 million this year, the NFT investing craze has only gotten hotter. Artists from Snoop Dog to singer-songwriter Grimes and rock band Kings of Leon made huge profits minting these… Source link

The logo of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is reflected in a laptop screen showing Google start page. May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it would this month seek to fine U.S. tech giant Google a percentage of its annual Russian turnover for repeatedly failing to delete content deemed illegal, Moscow’s strongest effort yet to rein in foreign tech firms. Communications regulator Roskomnadzor said Google had failed to pay… Source link

Russian internet search engine Yandex has announced that it plans to launch a new version of its smart speaker, the Yandex Min and a new Module set-top box, reports Cnews.ru. Yandex has raised the capacity of its mini smart speaker from 3W to 10W. The set-top box is based on the Yandex TV platform. Source link

Russian internet search engine Yandex has announced that it plans to launch a new version of its smart speaker, the Yandex Min and a new Module set-top box, reports Cnews.ru. Yandex has raised the capacity of its mini smart speaker from 3W to 10W. The set-top box is based on the Yandex TV platform. Source link

At first blush, if you look at the news about crypto right now, things don’t look so great. “China Declares Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal; Bitcoin Price Falls” screams the Wall Street Journal headline from yesterday. Bloomberg, citing that China news and the SEC threatening to sue cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, called September “crypto’s grim month.” Indeed after topping $52,600 earlier this month, bitcoin is down some 20% to close to $43,000. And that’s all true, as far… Source link

After it ended free unlimited storage for Google Photos in June, many Google users had figure out how to store images and other data in the Google accounts. They could keep their Google account stored data under 15GB, or pay for a Google One plan. Options included a 100GB plan for $1.99 per month, a 200GB plan for $2.99 a month, a 2TB plan for $9.99 a month, or a plan with 10TB of storage for $49.99 per month. 20TB and 30TB plans are also available, for $99.99 and $149.99 per month,… Source link

Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal. Last week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000 for the second time in two weeks, extending a rally that put a grim sell-off that started in May further in the rear-view mirror. While notable for its volatility, gains in the the largest cryptocurrency may have gotten lost in the swell of rising prices across the entire asset class. With a… Source link