Chinese President Xi Jinping 2019 New Economy Forum in BeijingGetty ImagesLast month Chinese leader Xi Jinping gave a speech where he encouraged Chinese enterprises to ‘seize the opportunity’ in using and accelerating the development of blockchain technology. This was a significant event in China’s perspective of the technology and cemented several previous public statements regarding…
ToplineBrown University became the second high-profile university to turn down the Trump administration’s “Compact For Academic Excellence in Higher Education” — a deal that offers special funding advantages for schools that make policy changes aligned with President Donald Trump’s education agenda. Brown declined the compact Wednesday afternoon.Moment Editorial/Getty ImagesKey FactsBrown University president Christina H. Paxson…
Walking with Michl Binderbauer into his 2-acre laboratory feels a bit like taking a factory tour with Willy Wonka. In one corner Binderbauer, chief executive of TAE Technologies, shows off a new machine that blasts cancer tumors with a neutron beam. Engineers huddle in a control room. Beyond their window: Norman. That’s the name of…
The founder who runs a billion user company with 40 people (and no phone) Getty ImagesMost tech billionaires can’t function without their phones. Pavel Durov built a billion-user messaging app without one. Pavel Durov, the 41-year-old founder and CEO of Telegram, runs one of the world’s most valuable tech companies with just 40 engineers. His…
ToplineShares of companies producing rare earth minerals surged Monday as JPMorgan announced a decade-long $1.5 trillion “Security and Resilience Initiative” aimed at investing in industries like artificial intelligence, manufacturing and critical minerals—and surely to curry favor with President Trump, who has urged major entities to invest in his “America First” economic agenda. JP Morgan headquarters…
To purchase gold isn’t much different from hiding money in the proverbial coffee can. Yes, rising gold signals a little or a lot of economic decline. The yellow metal’s upward trajectory in dollars brings to mind a weekly gathering of old at Caltech. Professors wouldn’t talk about the experiments that worked, rather they’d revel in…
ToplineThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” on Friday, according to multiple reports, becoming the first school to reject the funding deal that looks to have a group of universities adhere to policy changes aligning with President Donald Trump’s agenda. MIT issued the letter Friday.…
Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire. Elon Musk achieved yet another major milestone Wednesday, becoming the first ever person worth half-a-trillion dollars. The richest person on the planet is now worth $500 billion, as of 3:30 pm Eastern, per Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires tracker. Musk, who became the first person ever worth…
ToplinePresident Donald Trump shared and then deleted a seemingly AI-generated video in which he was seen promising Americans access to “medbeds” a fictional technology popular with some far-right conspiracy theorists who believe they secretly exist and hold miracle cures for every illness, and have been withheld from common Americans. Trump’s account on Truth Social posted…
Al Singer Xania Monet TALISHA JONESSeventeen million streams in two months. A multimillion-dollar record deal. A Billboard-charting single. These are the kinds of stats that typically belong to breakout human stars. But today they belong to Xania Monet — an AI-powered R&B singer who doesn’t exist in human form. Monet was created by 31-year-old Mississippi…
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