The end of cash has been heralded for yearsmostly by government officials eager to end the expense of minting coins and printing banknotes while pushing transactions to digital forms that can be tracked and taxed. The transformation has met varying degrees of acceptance or resistance from people around the globe. But Australians appear to be
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During his closing argument in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan on Tuesday, lead defense attorney Todd Blanche hammered at the credibility of the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, the former president’s estranged fixer, calling him “the greatest liar of all time.” That strategy makes sense given Cohen’s role in establishing that Trump “caused” the
step forward — Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain Precision expects its minimally invasive brain implant to hit the market next year. Beth Mole – May 28, 2024 9:41 pm UTC Enlarge / Each of Precision’s microelectrode arrays comprises 1,024 electrodes ranging in diameter from 50 to 380 microns, connected
Like a chesterfield strapped to a rocket? — Bentley is replacing its W12 engine with a plug-in hybridand let us try it Plug-in hybrid powertrain perfectly suits Bentley’s next Continental GT Speed. Jonathan M. Gitlin – May 28, 2024 11:01 pm UTC Enlarge / After building almost 100,000 W12-powered Bentley Continental GTs, the brand is
Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 In February, freakouts over artificial intelligence took a fun twist. This time, it wasn’t concern that humans are ushering in our robot overlords, panic about AI’s potential to create realistic fakes, or any of the usual fare. It wasn’t really about AI at all, but the humans who create it:wokehumans. The controversy started
A home available for sale is shown on May 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images After a brief pullback during much of May, mortgage rates began rising again last week. That had an immediate impact on what had been several weeks of strengthening mortgage demand. The average contract interest rate for
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Dallas would ramp up contributions to its Police and Fire Pension System over five years and could pursue additional funding options, including pension obligation bonds and using a portion of sales taxes earmarked for mass transit, under recommendations presented to a city council committee. Jack Ireland, Dallas’ chief financial officer, told the Ad Hoc Committee
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The trial in Dominion v. Fox News, which has already resulted in bombshell revelations about the right-wing media giant and the 2020 election, is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Unless a settlement is reached, a jury will determine whether Fox is financially liable for broadcasting and promoting false claims about Dominion Voting Systems voting machines rigging
Even as Donald Trump relies on unprecedented support from Black and Latino voters, he is embracing policies that would expose their communities to much greater police surveillance and enforcement. The policies that Trump is pledging to implement around crime and policing in a second presidential term would reverse the broad trend of police reform that
Amazon is slashing grocery prices by up to 30% in hopes of luring inflation-weary customers — following in the footsteps of other major retailers such as Target and Walmart. The company said that it will reduce prices of 4,000 items at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores online as well as at its handful of brick-and-mortar
Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Saturday it has urged Tesla shareholders to reject a $56 billion pay package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, which if passed would be the largest pay package for a CEO in corporate America. The report cited reasons like the “excessive size” of the pay deal, the dilutive
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GOING NATIVE — Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data ShrinkLocker is the latest ransomware to use Windows’ full-disk encryption. Dan Goodin – May 24, 2024 10:06 pm UTC reader comments 64 A previously unknown piece of ransomware, dubbed ShrinkLocker, encrypts victim data using the BitLocker feature built into the Windows operating system.
Late discovery — NASA finds more issues with Boeings Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1 Fixing the helium leak would delay Starliner crew test flight for months. Stephen Clark – May 25, 2024 3:34 am UTC Enlarge / Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop its Atlas V rocket on the launch pad earlier this month.NASA/Joel
manufacturing doubt — Deny, denounce, delay: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances. Madeleine Speed, Ella Hollowood and Sarah Neville, Financial Times – May 25, 2024 11:15 am UTC Enlargemonticelllo/Getty reader comments 315 When the Brazilian nutritional scientist Carlos Monteiro
a rich hunting ground — The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in US Researchers are working to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods. Hannah Hoag, Knowable Magazine – May 26, 2024 10:55 am UTC Enlarge / 2023 marked the first sighting of a yellow-legged hornet in the United States, sparking
ver’ smol’ cars — Small, cheap, and weird: A history of the microcar Tiny EVs come of age again in the third microcar renaissance. Alex Goy – May 27, 2024 11:00 am UTC EnlargeAurich Lawson reader comments 24 European car manufacturers are currently tripping over themselves to figure out how personal transport and “last mile”