Trump supporters take photographs near the U.S. Capitol building as the sun sets the day U.S. President Elect Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2024. Leah Millis | Reuters Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, many individual investors are wondering what that means for […]
Bitcoin (btc) tops $82,000 as crypto euphoria over Trump win
Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin hit another high Monday, as the rally in cryptocurrencies continued following Donald Trump’s election win. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 3% higher at $81,854.98, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $82,526.33. Ether was little changed, […]
Tom Hanks rips movie critics with single expletive
Tom Hanks has some thoughts about movie critics. The Academy Award-winning actor called people who write about movies “c———s” in an interview with Conan O’Brien. The two had been discussing how “time” has become a metric for how movies matter after box office numbers and critics’ reviews. “Then a ton of time goes by, none […]
Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office
Lauren Goode: Oh, really? Zoë Schiffer: Yes. Lauren Goode: I did not have that experience on Caltrain. Zoë Schiffer: Well, you weren’t reading Infinite Jest on the Caltrain, were you now? That was my catfishing technique. Lauren Goode: What was your worst commute, Mike? Michael Calore: There was a period of time in the early […]
Conflux Foundation commits $500M to fuel PayFi Web3 payments solution
The Conflux Foundation plans to invest $500 million to support the growth of PayFi, short for Pay Finance, a Web3 payments solution. Conflux’s $500 million investment will come from its ecosystem fund and will go toward developing PayFi, a blockchain-based payments platform that aims to bring traditional finance services to the blockchain. PayFi aims to […]
Here’s why young adults in Puerto Rico are struggling financially
Parade attendees wave Puerto Rican flags on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan during the annual Puerto Rico Day Parade. Luiz C. Ribeiro | New York Daily News | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Young adults in Puerto Rico are on shaky financial ground, a study finds. About 47% of respondents in the U.S. territory are […]
Bitcoin hits $80,000 for the first time as crypto traders bask in Trump election victory
Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies extended their rally on Sunday, with bitcoin touching $80,000 for the first time ever. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4.5% at $79,800.19, according to Coin Metrics. Ether rose 3%, after passing the $3,000 level on Saturday. It last changed […]
Melissa Gilbert recalls ‘painful goodbye’ to Michael Landon
The last time Melissa Gilbert spent time with her TV dad was just a week before his death. Michael Landon, the “Bonanza” actor who starred as beloved patriarch Charles Ingalls on “Little House on the Prairie,” died three months after publicly announcing his pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 1991. He was 54. Gilbert, who played “Half […]
Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent
Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on our Slack that working on a technology story seemed tone-deaf, if not futile. On a plane from New York to San Francisco, I wrote a column to […]
Bitcoin price hits $80K for the first time — New 'inflation-adjusted' all-time high
Bitcoin is on the road to deliver its best weekly performance since February following Trump’s reelection.