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Blockchain

Blockstack Prepares For Its True Test Following SEC Approval To Raise $28 Million On A Blockchain

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Muneeb Ali, co-founder and chief executive officer of Blockstack Inc., speaks during the Token Summit in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Photographer: Alex Flyn…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

NASDAQ

10 things you need to know before the opening bell

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Here is what you need to know. 1. US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin has warned that Facebook's Libra could be a tool for terrorists, traffickers, and drug smugglers. Bitcoin's price barely moved on the comments. 2. UK Prime Minist…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Korean War

North Korea warns it could resume missile and nuclear tests

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July 5, 2017. KCNA/Reuters Seoul, South Korea -- The North Korean regi…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Yellow Vests

Central bankers are sick of rescuing the world economy alone

By William Horobin and Simon KennedyGlobal central bankers are again in the driving seat when it comes to propping up the world economy, but many are demanding governments join them in the rescue effort. Amid slowing global growth, the Federal Reserve, Europ…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

CCTV

Ah Long now spoofing long-distance calls to threaten victims

KUALA LUMPUR: Loan sharks are using foreign mobile numbers to send intimidating messages to victims. Datuk Seri Michael Chong said the "Ah Long" (local slang for loan shark) were probably using foreign numbers to avoid detection. In a press conference on Tu…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

South Africa: Young South Africans Want to Farm. but the System Isn’t Ready for Them

analysisPersistent unemployment has become synonymous with the youth experience across South Africa. Youth unemployment rates are almost four times higher than the regional average - 62% of South Africans between 15 and 35 years are unemployed and of these 60…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

New York City

What the City Didn’t Want the Public to Know: Its Policy Deepens Segregation

City Hall on Monday also released its rebuttal report, which had been completed last month. The question of whether the policy has a racially disparate impact should be considered across the whole city, not neighborhood by neighborhood, argued the citys sta…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Water Pollution

How Activists Brought Apollo Back to Earth

Other grass-roots movements took up the cause. Environmentalists blamed Apollo launches for fouling Cape Canaveral, and the space race for distracting Americans from a mounting pollution problem. They also lobbied Congress to force NASA to be more environment…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Refugees

‘Dope Refugees’: How the Opioid Crisis Arrived at New York’s Commuter Hubs

Barbara A. Blair, the president of the Garment District Alliance, which represents businesses and property owners in the area between Penn Station and the Port Authority, said that starting last summer, significantly more people arrived who appeared to be usi…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Cold War

Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

According to NASAs chief historian, Bill Barry, this one decision set a course that the space race would follow for years to come. Once you do that, he explained, you bake in all of the stuff thats already there. For example, that there are no African-America…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Blockstack Prepares For Its True Test Following SEC Approval To Raise $28 Million On A Blockchain

10 things you need to know before the opening bell

North Korea warns it could resume missile and nuclear tests

Central bankers are sick of rescuing the world economy alone

Ah Long now spoofing long-distance calls to threaten victims

South Africa: Young South Africans Want to Farm. but the System Isn’t Ready for Them

What the City Didn’t Want the Public to Know: Its Policy Deepens Segregation

How Activists Brought Apollo Back to Earth

‘Dope Refugees’: How the Opioid Crisis Arrived at New York’s Commuter Hubs

Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

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