Last week TerraUSD, a stablecoin — a system that was supposed to perform a lot like a conventional bank account but was backed only by a cryptocurrency called Luna — collapsed. Luna lost 97 percent of its value over the course of just 24 hours, apparently destroying some investors’ life savings. The event shook the […]
Tuesday, 17 May 2022 Lyon (Agenzia Fides) – Lyon is preparing for the beatification celebrations next Sunday for the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Pauline Jaricot (see Fides, 3/5/2022).In the course of this week, Catholic media will publish in-depth analyzes and background information, scheduled conferences and round tables, up […]
A study looking at more than 55,000 pairs of words has found why word pairings like “gnome bone” and “spam scrotum” seem to be more amusing than their constituent parts Humans 13 May 2022 By Jesse Staniforth Some pairs of words are funnier than others Shutterstock / fizkes On their own there is nothing particularly […]
Facebook Inc, now called Meta, announced its dating application, Facebook Dating, in May 2018. There was real excitement, with people expecting a revolutionary dating app that would soon beat Tinder. And it is no wonder, when you consider the size of the company, its technical capabilities, and most importantly the large volume of data that […]
Issued on: 17/05/2022 – 23:04Modified: 17/05/2022 – 23:02 Washington (AFP) – An increasing number of unidentified flying objects have been reported in the sky over the past 20 years, a top US defense official told lawmakers Tuesday in the first public hearing on UFOs in half a century. “Since the early 2000s we have seen […]
Ukraine’s deputy defense minister has expressed hope that the 264 Ukrainian fighters evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol will be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war. Hanna Malyar’s comment at a briefing came after Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called the evacuated soldiers “criminals” who must be “brought to justice.” Volodin said the […]
A campaign chief of former President Alvaro Uribe and presidential candidate Federico Gutierrez has reportedly been doing business with narcos for years. The ties between Gutierrez’s campaign and organized crime were revealed by newspaper El Espectador and the frontrunner in the elections. opposition Senator Gustavo Petro. El Espectador revealed on Sunday that businessman Cesar Giraldo, […]
Welcome back to Found, the weekly TechCrunch podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Jordan talked with Justin Intal from Forage on Found Live. He talks about how profound struggles in her personal life motivated him to create a way for online grocers to accept EBT and SNAP benefits. […]
Google announced today that the YouTube Music app on Wear OS is rolling out the ability for users to stream music over LTE or WiFi. The new feature will let users discover new music without having to download content beforehand. In a community blog post about the new feature, the company positions it as a […]
Finding love in 2022 is not the easiest, nor was it any better in 2011 when I first met my husband. All it took was a bottle of wine, some liquid courage, and a popular dating app, and I was well on my way to a happy marriage. Today, however, the Internet can be both […]