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View More NewsIn 2022, James Cameron brought audiences the sequel to his 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar. In Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron continues the story of protagonist Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). In the first film, Sully is a crippled marine living on a dying future Earth. He travels to the alien world of Pandora to help the militaristic Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and corporate overseer Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) move the natives, the Na’vi, off their land so the humans can mine it. But then he falls in love with a native woman, her people, and their world, helps them…
In brief The Algorand Foundation laid off 25% of its staff due to the downturn in crypto markets. The foundation remains focused on the network, which saw nearly a 5% growth in transactions last quarter compared to Q3. The layoffs follow other recent announcements from firms like OP Labs, PIP Labs, Block, and Gemini. The organization behind the layer-1 network Algorand has laid off 25% of its staff as a result of crypto’s continued slide and macroeconomic uncertainty. Details about how many individuals were affected were not shared. A representative for the foundation did not immediately respond to Decrypt’s request for…
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A review of Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind by Jason Zengerle; 400 pages; Crooked Media Reads (January 2026)In the autumn of 1980, as Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were preparing for their second presidential debate, Tucker Carlson’s sixth grade teacher decided to stage a classroom debate between Carlson and Carlson’s best friend Russell. Although the pair were only eleven years old, they were already rabid political junkies, albeit of very different sorts. Carlson was an outspoken conservative, while Russell was a die-hard liberal. There was a twist, though: in the debate, Carlson…
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Since the Iran war began, the market narrative has been simple: the oil spike, inflationary impulse and wider market volatility will be temporary and…
Key takeaways:Robert Kiyosaki’s $750,000 Bitcoin target implies a 95% discount versus gold, which is lower than the 2024 peak.$750,000 Bitcoin might not be that…
In brief Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the Senate will mark up the Clarity Act in April, with Bernie Moreno (R-OH) warning it must pass…
from the serial-killings dept The boat strike program the Trump administration is engaged in isn’t actually supported by law. Even his own in-house counsel…
Attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are representing photojournalist Rob Levine in a challenge to unconstitutional federal restrictions that criminalize…
Bitcoin’s BTC$73,470.16 recent strength during geopolitical uncertainty reflects a fundamental shift in the asset’s ownership structure, according to Wall Street broker Bernstein.The cryptocurrency climbed…
Ironlight Group has raised $21 million in a Series A round to expand infrastructure for tokenized securities, including scaling its alternative trading system (ATS)…
In brief Investors that stake $5 million worth of WLFI will earn “guaranteed access” to members of the World Liberty Financial Team. Moving forward,…
from the being-forced-to-say-the-quiet-parts-loud dept It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re…
Amid a war in the Middle East that is, despite his assurances, still very much unresolved, President Donald Trump spent a substantial portion of…
Berlin, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hungarian authorities to swiftly investigate the forcible removal of reporters Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri with…
Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) have surged more than 100% over the past month, turning what many investors once viewed as one of…