As Washington and America’s media keep pumping up the intelligence reports of which they have not provided a scintilla of evidence, another the D.C. media’s greatest lies and greatest hits is Russia’s invasion and takeover of Crimea in Eastern Ukraine. In the print-news world, “nut graphs” are statements of fact that explain a story’s news...
Denmark lifted all COVID-19 restrictions despite a jump in omicron cases and hospitalizations—and issued a statement that said the virus should no longer be categorized as a “socially critical disease.” Among the restrictions that have been lifted is the mask mandate on public transportation and in indoor spaces. Magnus Heunicke, the country’s health minister, called...
Italy has mandated vaccinations for its elderly, forced citizens to use vaccine passports to go to work, eat in restaurants and cafes, and has enforced some of the most restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe… but all of those measures could not prevent 150,000 deaths tied to COVID-19. Nicola Magrini, the director of the Italian Medicines...
Younger Americans benefited less from taking a third booster COVID-19 vaccine jab than older adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC). The new data was published Thursday and found that older adults benefited the most from these jabs. But Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease expert and epidemiologist at Kaiser Health News,...
In a Congressional hearing on 9 Wednesday, Rostin Behnam, chair of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), asked Congress to grant his agency the authority to regulate cash markets in cryptocurrencies. The CFTC already regulates derivatives markets. “My responsibility is to assume that [crypto] will continue to take root and emerge and wind itself...
Private equity firms Silver Lake and Lightspeed Venture Partners led a recent $200-million funding round for a company called Alchemy that makes software for crypto developers. Alchemy is now valued at $10.2 billion, the company said on 8 February. A day earlier, the Indian company Polygon, which creates software that makes Ethereum transactions easier,...
Non-Fungible Tokens can establish an immutable record of ownership of any digital asset, and even real-world assets. The issued token can then be utilized as an authenticator for any process concerning that asset. A previous Trends Journal article (“THE CRYPTO ‘AGE OF UTILITY’ HAS JUST BEGUN,” 12 Oct 2021) detailed how an NFT powered music...
GOV’T AI WILL TRACK AUTHOR “FINGERPRINTS” TO CRUSH DISSENT. Artificial intelligence which can track written materials back to their authors, by identifying unique “fingerprint” traits of authorship, is being rapidly developed by the U.S. government. That’s according to Nextgov, a consortium of leading tech corps that works closely with government agencies, developing, selling and procuring...
If you’re eating mealworms—the larval stage of a common beetle—you want to chow down on first-rate grubs. Ynsect, the French mealworm rancher, is going to make your mealworm wishes come true. The 11-year old company operates two mealworm farms in Europe, producing the critters for pet food, livestock feed, and a tofu-like substance for human...
Two breakthrough trials have opened parallel paths to restoring motion after spinal cords have been partly or completely severed. Using electrical stimulation to reactivate spinal neurons, researchers at Switzerland’s Lausanne University have enabled three patients with partly or completely severed spinal cords to stand, walk, pedal a bike, twist their torsos, and even swim. Other...