The EthCC crypto scene at Cannes shows how far Ethereum has come

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CANNES — Wall Street’s new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects took over the same French Riviera villas and red carpet venues that host the Cannes Film Festival in May. The Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, took over the beachside town that was swarming with crypto founders, developers, and some […]


Washington DC housing market shows cracks amid federal layoffs

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The supply of homes for sale across the nation always rises ahead of the busy spring market, but the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is seeing an outsized increase, according to Realtor.com. Inventory gains in the region, which includes the District as well as Maryland and Virginia suburbs, began to accelerate in January and February, up […]


New Analysis Shows Book Bans Target Books With Non-White, Queer, and Disabled Characters

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PEN America has released a new analysis of book bans, Cover to Cover, and it really makes clear the purpose of book banning—which, surprise surprise, is not what book banners say it is. For one, in the more than 10,000 book ban instances that PEN America looked at—which span across genres, fictional and nonfictional books, […]


DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working

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When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in the United States, the news was greeted in many circles as a warning that China was closing the gap in the global race to build artificial intelligence. DeepSeek also said it built […]


Jaguar’s woke ad shows just how out of touch companies are with consumers

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There was something telling in the latest example of ­idiotic and woke corporate virtue signaling that came courtesy of high-end car manufacturer Jaguar.  In addition to the spectacle of an odd-looking man running around in an ill-fitting dress without a car in sight, there was the equally ­bizarre rationalization of it. Rawdon Glover, an official […]