A person walks on campus at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. March 26, 2025. Hannah Beier | Reuters The U.S. Department of Education announced it is re-opening the online applications for income-driven repayment plans, the programs used by millions of federal student loan borrowers to repay their debt. The IDR plans now available, according […]
Robinhood CEO likes Amazon Prime model, sees loyalty opportunity
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is betting that by rolling out a large enough portfolio of digital investment products, more consumers will be willing to pay a monthly subscription for its product suite. Subscribers to Robinhood Gold pay $5 a month or $50 a year for perks like 4% interest on uninvested cash, access to professional […]
Corey Feldman claims Leonardo DiCaprio’s role in ‘Gilbert Grape’ was initially his
Corey Feldman revealed he was almost cast in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” but lost out on the role to Leonardo DiCaprio. Feldman, now 53, said he’s “still bitter” about how everything went down, claiming Johnny Depp pushed him out. “I was actually cast to play Leonardo DiCaprio’s role,” he said on an episode of Billy […]
Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China
In January, with a nationwide ban on TikTok looming, hundreds of thousands of people in the US began flocking to another Chinese social media app called RedNote—only to find that Maye Musk, Elon Musk’s mother, had already established a relatively large audience on the platform. Maye, who has become a celebrity in her own right […]
Bitcoin price rally stalls as gold nears record $3.1K
Bitcoin (BTC) faced mixed forces on March 27 as a combination of fresh US trade tariffs and macroeconomic data weighed on risk assets. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Gold leaves Bitcoin in the dust amid tariff woes Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price volatility returning at the Wall Street open. BTC/USD […]
Millions of student loan borrowers past-due after bills restarted: Fed
People walk on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC) on March 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Around 9.7 million student loan borrowers became past due on their bills after the Covid-era payment pause expired, according to a new estimate by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After […]
OpenAI expects revenue will triple to $12.7 billion this year: source
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at a panel discussion on potentials, perspectives and challenges in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Technical University (TU) in Berlin on February 7, 2025. John Macdougall | Afp | Getty Images OpenAI expects revenue will triple to $12.7 billion in 2025, CNBC has confirmed. Bloomberg was first […]
Former pro wrestler puts Ryan Seacrest in headlock on ‘Wheel of Fortune’
A “Wheel of Fortune” contestant got physical with game show host Ryan Seacrest. Earlier this week, a former professional wrestler had a chance to spin the wheel and win big during the beloved game show. “Wheel of Fortune” player Bill Page from Wilmington, Delaware, kicked off his game by putting Seacrest in a headlock. ‘WHEEL […]
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable, and energy-efficient probabilistic computing platform,” says Guillaume Verdon, CEO of Extropic and the man behind the wildly popular, provocative, and sometimes controversial online persona Based […]
Price analysis 3/26: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, LINK, AVAX, XLM
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls have maintained the pressure and are attempting to push the price above the $90,000 resistance. A positive sign in favor of the bulls is that the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have witnessed net inflows for eight successive trading days, according to SoSoValue data. That indicates institutional investors are gradually buying again. […]