This oasis at the foot of the Atlas Mountains is the result of a Moroccan man’s wish for his family to create a project in his hometown. Saida and Abdeslam Bennani Smires made their grandfather’s dream come true — while adding their own passion. This is how the Selman Marrakech palace hotel and stud farm was brought […]

Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee chain, will close 150 underperforming U.S locations in fiscal year 2019. That’s about three times its historical average, and the news comes just before executive chairman and co-founder Howard Schultz plans to step away from his role in the company on June 26. Starbucks hasn’t met experts’ estimates for same-store […]

Marriage may protect against the development of heart disease/stroke as well as influencing who is more likely to die of it, suggests a pooled analysis of the available data, published online in the journal Heart. The findings prompt the researchers to suggest that marital status should be included as a risk factor for heart disease/stroke and […]

Walt Disney Co raised its bid for the bulk of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s film and television assets to $71.3 billion on Wednesday, sweetening its deal with cash as it looks to upend Comcast Corp’s $65 billion offer. The new cash-or-stock deal may be attractive to Fox’s largest shareholder, Rupert Murdoch, who owns 17 percent […]

The rise of blockchain technology is fueling demand in relevant skill sets, with institutes and countries around the world launching educational initiatives. The latest to introduce such a program is the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In collaboration with American technology giant IBM, India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) launched a 12-week online course on blockchain architecture, […]

Add Akon to the list of celebrities who are launching their own cryptocurrencies. The 45-year-old “Smack It” singer announced Monday at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that he not only is launching his own crypto, “Akoin,” but also will use it in his Akon Crypto City, a 100 percent crypto-based city in Africa. First […]

US President Donald Trump has promised action to “keep families together” amid fury over separations of undocumented child migrants from adults. “I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that,” he told reporters at the White House. The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly drafted an executive order to stop the […]

Cryptocurrencies are already used to pay college and university tuition fees, buy Lamborghinis, and pay for space travel. Now you can also assist in protecting journalists and whistleblowers by donating to the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) using bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, litecoin, and zcash. The donations will support current projects of the free speech nonprofit […]

Bitcoin price formed a key bottom above USD 6,400 and jumped sharply. Ethereum, Ripple and other major altcoins moved into the green zone. FCT, ETC, SYS, Tron, ONT and many other coins registered decent gains. Bitcoin price was able to form a base around the USD 6,400 pivot level for an upward move. BTC/USD climbed […]

“Consensus by conference call” — that’s how one critic characterized the on-chain governance model employed by the nascent EOS network in the wake of several high profile incidents involving block producers. Most recently, the network’s 21 block producers — organizations who verify transactions and validate blocks — froze seven EOS accounts allegedly belonging to thieves who had […]