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Rishi Sunak has invited Britain’s trade union leaders to talks on Monday in an attempt to find a solution to the wave of disruptive strikes across the UK. The UK prime minister said in a broadcast interview on Friday that government departments had written to the relevant unions inviting them for talks to begin on

Yes or no? — After $414M fine, Meta tries to avoid seeking user consent for personalized ads Privacy activists explain why asking for consent may be Meta’s only option. Ashley Belanger – Jan 5, 2023 7:41 pm UTC EnlargeFRANCESCO ZERILLI/ZERILLIMEDIA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY | Science Photo Library reader comments 4 with 0 posters participating Share this

Global payments giantVisa IncV has released a paper outlining how the firm could work withEthereumETH/USD to enable automated payments from self-custodial crypto wallets. What Happened: The paper, originally presented as part of a company hackathon held earlier this year, explores how the Ethereum mainnet can offer users the capability of scheduling auto-payments with the support

Jeremy Blosson, Cofounder and CEO of Strikepoint Media, moderated the panel The Key To Winning Customers In Bear Markets" at Benzinga's Fintech Deal Day. Earlier this year, amid growing concerns of a recession, platforms were dealing with a crisis of confidence. After the FTX fiasco, platforms are now facing a crisis of trust. The panel

What’s new? — How humans got a new gene that makes our brains larger Somewhere between chimps and us, an RNA started producing a useful protein. John Timmer – Jan 5, 2023 7:09 pm UTC Enlarge / Building a bigger brain requires new genes, not a workout.OsakaWayne Studios reader comments 6 with 0 posters participating

This is an opinion editorial by Matt Smith, an operations officer for the United States Air Force and an assistant professor of aerospace studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As the country’s most adversarial competitors actively pursue ways to de-dollarize the world while simultaneously publicly announcing, “the economy of imaginary wealth is being inevitably replaced by

The claim that former PresidentDonald Trumpwas knighted byQueen Elizabeth IIin private has been assessed as false, according to areportfrom the Associated Press. What Happened:Soon after thedeathof the British Monarch on Sept. 8 claims arose, disseminated on social media, that Trump was knighted by the Queen. The AP cited a particular Tweet, which, in turn, contained

George Parthimos, founder and CEO of Wolfpack Financials LLC, shared the motivation behind his company at Benzingas Fintech Deal Day. Parthimos has several sons who were interested in building a portfolio but were daunted by the complexity of investing in the stock market. Parthimos had the tools to educate his family but knew that many

2020 and 2021 saw a massive expansion of digital offerings across nearly every industry. Many organizations implemented new partnerships to offer digital commerce and payment tools, or even invested in creating their own tools to address the abrupt and urgent need created by the pandemic. This trend was particularly evident in the digital health market,

Its been a bad month for many in the crypto world, including Gemini Exchange and its owners and founders, billionaire twin brothers Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss. On November 16, 2022, Gemini announced on its blog: Genesis Global Capital, LLC (Genesis) the lending partner of the (Gemini) Earn program has paused withdrawals and will not

For two years following the publishing of the now-famous Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008, the person or people calledSatoshi Nakamoto (presumed to be a pseudonym)who created the cryptocurrency corresponded regularly with the growing community, explaining the concepts behind a decentralized global digital currency. What Happened: Thelast-known message from Nakamoto was sent on Jan.10, 2011. This

Billionaire investor Tim Draper has earned the title "adventure capitalist" by betting on a series of notable tech successes, including Hotmail, Skype, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Ancestry.com. Draper was an early supporter of Bitcoin BTC/USD and has made early predictions which for the past eight years have turned out to be

Mark Water, Head of Sales at Barchart, shared insights into his company at Benzingas Fintech Deal Day. Barchart is a technology company that specializes in financial market data. Mark shares that, unlike competitors, being a technology company first enables them to leverage the latest and best technology to deliver financial data efficiently and accurately. The

Clients pulled $8.1bn in deposits from Silvergate during a “crisis in confidence” late last year, forcing the crypto-focused US bank to sell assets and underscoring how the implosion of FTX reached the regulated financial sector. The California-based group’s disclosure on Thursday showing its deposits from digital asset customers shrank to $3.8bn on December 31 from

Uniswap, the decentralized exchange, has partnered up with fintech company Moonpay to let users in the U.S., Brazil, the UK and SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) areas buy cryptocurrencies on its web app with debit cards, credit cards or bank transfers. What Happened: Uniswap said on Tuesday that users may be able to convert fiat

lovelace goes mobile — Nvidia unveils a broad range of efficient new laptop GPUs, from RTX 4050 to 4090 Mobile RTX 4050 can supposedly beat an RTX 3070 with just one-third the power use. Andrew Cunningham – Jan 3, 2023 11:30 pm UTC Enlarge / Nvidia says that an unnamed RTX 4000-series GPU can perform