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View More NewsSeptember 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Mike Judge’s cult classic Idiocracy, a time-travel comedy in which a dimwitted and lazy Army librarian named Joe Bauers wakes up 500 years in the future to find himself the smartest man alive in a world gone horribly wrong. As a voiceover intones at the start of the move, smart people increasingly put off having kids, resulting in a precipitous, uninterrupted, and compounded “dumbing down” of the population. Combined with an emphasis on physical comfort—everyone wears some version of athleisure and then-unknown Crocs for footwear—”the intelligent” became “an endangered species.”…
In brief Bitcoin trades at $80,526, up 1.9% on the day, after getting rejected near $81,265 earlier this week. The Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium opened today under the theme “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” with new Chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote due Friday. The charts are signaling overbought conditions for BTC, even as the broader trend score seems bullish. Bitcoin is knocking on the door of its next major resistance wall right as the world’s most-watched central banking conference gets underway with an agenda that, for once, is actually about crypto’s own back yard.BTC is changing hands at $80,526,…
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Flock Safety is feeling the heat from ongoing public backlash against the company’s controversial surveillance technology. Amid mounting contract cancellations and anti-Flock vigilantes targeting automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras across the country, CEO Garrett Langley appeared on Fox News…
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On 15 June 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo on the island of Luzon in the Philippines erupted violently, releasing an ash cloud on a scale so vast that seeing a photograph of it boggles the human mind. The eruption spewed out something north of 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide. For context, that’s roughly equivalent to 1,700 Eiffel Towers’ worth of material ejected out of the ground and into the sky.The effects were global, albeit quite temporary. As a result of the explosion, NASA estimates that temperatures worldwide fell by about half a degree Celsius on average over the following…
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Advertising technology, also known as ad tech, enables and facilitates targeted online advertising. These tools and systems often harvest and distribute internet users’ data,…
For the first time, the U.K.’s tax office broke out crypto capital gains figures, showing 17,600 people reported $1.87 billion in profits during the…
In brief Solana (SOL) is up more than 8% in the past 24 hours and roughly 44% this month, its strongest month since 2024,…
Arrest, prosecution, and censorship have long shaped the media landscape in Iran. Currently, nine journalists are known to be imprisoned for doing their job,…
Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to…
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Exodus Movement (EXOD) cut its bitcoin holdings by 1,076 BTC in the first quarter, while adding 5,068 SOL, as it moved more of its…
Bakkt swung to a first-quarter loss as crypto services revenue fell 77%, underscoring the digital asset platform’s push to reposition itself around stablecoin payments…
In brief Bitcoin’s current bear market drawdown of around 36% from its ATH is shallower than historical cycles, which saw 40–50% declines. ETF inflows…
Last week, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. If he remains on the bench through…
New York, May 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to immediately and unconditionally release two journalists from TOLOnews…