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Dollar on track for best week since 2016 despite slowing growth
byNEW YORK – The dollar held steady on Friday despite a government report showing slower first-quarter economic growth, with the currency on track to end its strongest week since November 2016, having gained 1.6 percent. On Tuesday, the U.S. benchmark government bond yield US10YT=RR broke through the psychologically significant 3 percent level for the first […]
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Crypto Assets Offer New Opportunities for VCs on a Global Scale
byAs institutional capital in the crypto space increases regularly, the need for blockchain technology and related enterprise support is at an all-time high, and several companies are working hard to provide both as the arena expands. One of those companies is Coefficient Ventures, a crypto fund set on financing blockchain systems worldwide. Thus far, the company […]
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China’s New ‘Guam Killer’ Missile Could Reach U.S. Military Bases
byChina’s new missile is being called the “Guam killer” because it could attack a U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean with a nuclear weapon. Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said the DF-26 intermediate range ballistic missile was now in service and could carry conventional and nuclear warheads to attack targets at land or sea. It has a […]
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Intel soars after brighter forecast for data centers, memory
byIntel Corp (INTC.O) beat earnings expectations for the first quarter and raised its full-year revenue and profit forecasts on Thursday, driven by the biggest-ever quarterly jump in its data center business and small-but-steady growth in its personal computer business. Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker rose 5.4 percent to $55.95 in after-market trading after […]
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Daily horoscope for Thursday 26 April
byAries Daily Horoscope for Today 26 April 2018: Aries on April 26th will not have much trouble, but neither will they experience fervent joy. You will be engaged in routine affairs, only occasionally wriggling from her tenacious paws to touch someone else’s creativity. Today you will discover a new literary author or artist who creates […]
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Atlanta Design Festival includes May 26 architectural tour in Asheville
byAtlanta Design Festival, organized by MA! (May 26 – June 3, 2018) will present a program of architecture tours, as part of their nine-day festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Now in its twelfth year, this Festival has risen to become one of the nation’s leading events dedicated to showcasing world-class design, architecture and brands. MA!, the […]
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In Tackling Gender Inequality in STEM, Considerations of Culture
byFor the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear. GROWING UP IN Saudi Arabia, Aciel Eshky didn’t get the memo that science was for boys. When she was around 10 years old, her aunt started to teach her basic computer programming. From there, going on to […]
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Inventing a Lifestyle
byThe concept and origins of smart home devices go back at least 70 years: Ray Bradbury, a mid-century push-button house and ‘The Jetsons’ all foreshadowed smart home devices. Ray Bradbury saw it coming, from inside the walls of an imaginary empty house decades away. The acclaimed author’s 1950 short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” is […]
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Key Supreme Court justices appear friendly to travel ban
byWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to tune out President Trump’s inflammatory anti-Muslim statements on the campaign trail and uphold his executive order banning travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. In hearing the case Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, a key swing vote, seemed largely unmoved by the argument […]
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The Far Right Is Freaking Out Over Kanye West’s Tweets About Donald Trump
by“It’s the return of Americana and not being a coward and having your own internal compass,” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said of West’s tweets. A series of pro-Trump tweets from Kanye West sent the far right into a gleeful fit Wednesday, turning a simmering flirtation with the rapper into a full-blown love-fest from a conservative […]
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