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Bitcoin (BTC-USD), the premiere digital currency first introduced in 2009, raised eyebrows this week when it dropped below $40,000 for the first time in three months, stoking fears of uncontrolled volatility. But by Wednesday, the coin’s price had risen back to $43,000 and many financial leaders are predicting Bitcoin to surpass $75,000 before the year ends. The quick recovery proved to many crypto enthusiasts that Bitcoin is here to stay. Now, some investors are highlighting Bitcoin for… Source link

Utah State’s Max Shulga may be the only basketball player to have a halfcourt shot counted as two points, however briefly.  Shulga’s halfcourt heave turned into a bizarre rulebook controversy on Tuesday during a game against Portland State, all thanks to a question of his intent with the shot. As you can see, Shulga seemed to be throwing up an alley-oop for teammate Brandon Horvath, only for the ball to go in: Per Utah State radio staffer Ajay Salvesen, the officials told Aggies athletic… Source link

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced Monday that it had recovered $2.3 million in cryptocurrency from criminal hackers who compromised a major U.S. pipeline in mid-May that resulted in fuel outages and hoarding across the East Coast for six days. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a seizure warrant on Monday, allowing the DOJ to take action to confiscate a large chunk of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware… Source link

The Telegraph Phil Mickelson rolls back the years but has elite company on USPGA leaderboard Full leaderboard Third round tee times Padraig Harrington had seen enough. After watching playing partner Phil Mickelson rolling back the years whilst rolling in the putts in the first two rounds of the 103rd US PGA Championship here, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain was ready to call history. “In the position Phil is, I expect him to contend and I wouldn’t put it past him being there on top at the end… Source link

Indiana didn’t fail to sign Brad Stevens for lack of trying.  The Boston Celtics head coach reportedly turned down the Hoosiers last month before IU eventually hired Mike Woodson as its head basketball coach. Now we know just how much IU coveted Stevens. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Indiana was prepared to make Stevens a 7-year, $70 million offer. He reported the news Saturday night during ESPN’s NBA studio show.  Annual salary more than Coach K, Calipari Just how big of a deal is… Source link

Time to dust off that shoebox filled with Pokémon cards. They could be worth something — just ask viral media sensation Logan Paul. 25 years after Pokémon debuted as tiny animated “pocket monsters” for Ninetendo’s Game Boy, the Japanese trading cards are red hot. Already this year, a collector paid more than $300,000 for a vintage Charizard card. A rare Blastoise card sold for $360,000. A quick search on eBay will yield a trove of cards being auctioned for upwards of $500,000, and… Source link

Problems with student loan debt pushed Congress to create a seemingly straightforward law in the 1990s to help borrowers lower default rates by consolidating debt with their spouses. Two decades later, divorced borrowers are struggling with the unforeseen consequences. “This problem, in particular, is a great metaphor for how broken the student loan system is,” Bonnie Latreille, director of research and advocacy at the Student Borrower Protection Center, told Yahoo Finance. “This product was… Source link

When Luke Stark sought money from Google in November he had no idea he’d be turning down $60,000 from the tech giant in March. Stark, an assistant professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, studies the social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence. In late November, he applied for a Google Research Scholar award, a no-strings-attached research grant of up to $60,000 to support professors who are early in their careers. He put in for the award, he said,… Source link

He put in for the award, he said, “because of my sense at the time that Google was building a really strong, potentially industry-leading ethical AI team.” Soon after, that feeling began to dissipate. In early December, Timnit Gebru, the co-leader of Google’s ethical AI team and a prominent Black woman in a mostly White, male field, abruptly left Google. On Wednesday, December 2, she tweeted that she had been “immediately fired” for an email she sent to an internal mailing list. In the email… Source link