Coinbase Crypto Exchange to Cut Nearly 1,000 Jobs The Wall Street Journal Coinbase to slash 20% of workforce in second major round of job cuts CNBC Coinbase to lay off 20% of workforce, stock rises premarket Yahoo Finance Coinbase Lays Off Another 20% of Employees The New York Times Coinbase to cut 20% of jobs in second round of […]
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China suspends issuing visas in Japan and South Korea – Reuters
China embassy decries “discriminatory” S.Korea border rules Some cities say peak of COVID infections was last month Chinese state media criticise Pfizer over Paxlovid price BEIJING, Jan 10 (Reuters) – China suspended issuing short-term visas in South Korea and Japan on Tuesday, after announcing it would retaliate against countries that required negative COVID-19 tests from […]
Katie Porter Announces Run for US Senate – The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Representative Katie Porter, a third-term California Democrat who studied under Elizabeth Warren at Harvard University and became a social media darling of liberal Democrats, said Tuesday that she would run in 2024 for the Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein. Ms. Porter, 49, is the first announced challenger to Ms. Feinstein, 89, who […]
DC officials want accountability after 13-year-old boy killed in shooting – WTOP
Officials in D.C. share their condolences and concerns with Karon Blake’s family after he was shot and killed in a Northeast neighborhood. Elected officials in D.C. said they’re concerned and want to know more about what led to a man shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy in a Northeast neighborhood. The shooting happened at 4 […]
Biden and his legal team don't know what's in classified documents found in his private office, sources say – CNN
CNN — President Joe Biden and his White House legal team do not know what’s precisely contained in the classified documents from his time as vice president that were discovered in his private office because they did not review them, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Biden didn’t know the documents were there, […]
Two supermassive black holes found dining side-by-side with just 750 light-years between them – Daily Mail
Black hole BANQUET! Scientists discover two supermassive black holes dining side-by-side with just 750 light-years between them Two supermassive black holes have been spotted ‘dining’ side-by-side The pair are growing simultaneously just 750 light years apart Astronomers believe they will eventually combine into a gargantuan black hole By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor For The […]
Bed Bath & Beyond to close Delaware Brandywine Town Center store – The News Journal
As Bed Bath & Beyond warns it could soon file for bankruptcy, at least one of the home goods retailer’s locations in Delaware is slated to close. Closing sales will unfold “over the next few months” at the Bed Bath & Beyond in the Brandywine Town Center, according to a company spokesperson. They declined to […]
Microsoft's VALL-E AI can mimic any voice from a short audio sample – Engadget
Microsoft has shown off its latest research in text-to-speech AI with a model called VALL-E that can simulate someone’s voice from just a three-second audio sample, Ars Technica has reported. The speech can not only match the timbre but also the emotional tone of the speaker, and even the acoustics of a room. It could […]
House GOP eyes new committee to probe 'weaponization' of federal government – NBC News
WASHINGTON — The new House Republican majority plans to create a special committee that could serve as a one-stop shop for investigating perceived wrongdoing by the federal government against conservatives, including former president Donald Trump. The new panel, structured as a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, is expected to be chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, […]
‘Spare,’ by Prince Harry: Book Review – The New York Times
Mired in a “red mist” of grief and anger, the prince self-medicates at first with candy and then, as the hated tabloids report with varying degrees of accuracy, alcohol, weed, cocaine, mushrooms and ayahuasca. (More mildly he tries magnesium supplements, and I’m not sure anyone needs to know that this loosened his bowels at a […]