The beautiful thing about track and field is that your one true challenger is the clock or measuring tape. But in the case of Sydney McLaughlin, the clock really is her only challenger. The 22-year-old American lined up for the medal race in the women’s 400 meter hurdles on Friday night at the World Athletics Championships with the second- and third-fastest women in history also running — and she left them in her wake. Already the world record holder, McLaughlin didn’t just lower that time,… Source link
Read More »Google Shatters Pandemic Record in $2.1B Office Purchase
A rendering of St. John’s Terminal with Google CEO Sundar Pichai (COOKFOX Architects, Getty) Google announced Tuesday it was expanding its office inventory in the city with the purchase of 550 Washington Street for $2.1 billion. The tech giant already leased space at the property, called St. John’s Terminal, from Oxford Properties, the Wall Street Journal reported, and will be exercising an option to buy the building, which the company said it expects to do in the first quarter of… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin shatters $30,000 as 2020 price surge continues into new year
It took bitcoin (BTC) 10 years in existence to reach the $20,000 mark, on Dec. 15. Then it took just 17 days to reach $30,000. It took the Dow Jones almost three years to make the same move. Bitcoin started 2020 at $7,200. It ended the year very close to $30,000, up 296%. (For comparison, the Nasdaq rose 43% in 2020, the S&P 500 rose 16%, the Dow rose 7%.) The surge continued full-steam into 2021: On Jan. 2, bitcoin broke through $30,000 for the first time, then broke through $31,000. The 2020… Source link
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