Picture two $1 bills. One is crisp and immaculate, newly arrived from the U.S. Mint. The other is crumpled and covered with crumbs and boogers. Each is worth exactly the same as the other. It doesn’t matter if the crumply one previously belonged to a coke dealer or a Koch brother. It’s still good for […]

Other data was published along with the list, like the average age of crypto's richest compared to the age of Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans (42 vs. 67), and the average daily price volatility in January 2018 for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) compared to Apple, Proctor & Gamble, and …

The Oscar-nominated short documentary Knife Skills has been acquired by Condé Nast Entertainment. This follows last year’s acquisition when the company acquired the Oscar-nominated short documentary Joe’s Violin, also for The New Yorker’s “The Screening Room” which features award-winning short films. The film, directed by Thomas Lennon (The Blood of Yingzhou District), follows the launch of an haute cuisine restaurant […]

Thirty years after nations banded together to phase out chemicals that destroy stratospheric ozone, the gaping hole in Earth’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation shield above Antarctica is shrinking. But new findings suggest that at midlatitudes, where most people live, the ozone layer in the lower stratosphere is growing more tenuous—for reasons that scientists are struggling to […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful launch system on Earth, roared into the sky on Tuesday afternoon atop a pillar of smoke. The rocket’s three reusable boosters lifted the vehicle skyward, sending Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster on a journey toward Mars orbit. Musk, SpaceX’s founder, was worried that the experimental 23-story rocket might explode with the force of […]

Former employees at companies such as Google and Facebook are pushing for tech companies to rethink and redesign addictive and intrusive tools under a new organization called Center for Humane Technology. The Center for Humane Technology is partnering with nonprofit Common Sense, which advocates for kids and families in the digital age, on a campaign […]

The distributed ledger technology which makes up the backbone of the Blockchain has already been adopted by legal firms, healthcare providers, retail and manufacturing, and even the food industry. The business value-add of blockchain is expected to grow to more than $176 billion by 2025, and to …

With governments around the globe cracking down on all aspects of the cryptocurrency market, it seems like new regulatory risks arise every day. Add U.S. sanctions to that list. On Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the primary sanctions enforcer in the U.S., announced that any U.S. […]

LOOKING AHEAD Team Mickey: Walt Disney Co. reports first-quarter results for fiscal 2018 on Tuesday. During the quarter, the company announced plans to acquire TV and movie assets from 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. The proposed acquisition includes Fox’s 20th Century Fox film division and TV studio, as well as its international and cable TV […]

It’s still too early to pack your bags for TRAPPIST-1. But two new studies probe the likely compositions of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the cool, dim star, and some are looking better and better as places to live (SN: 3/18/17, p. 6). New mass measurements suggest that the septet probably have rocky surfaces and possibly thin atmospheres, researchers report […]