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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and President Joe Biden. Nate Smallwood/Getty Images and Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Biden will be joined by PA Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman at a Labor Day parade next week. Fetterman’s campaign says he plans to ask Biden to “finally decriminalize marijuana.” Marijuana decriminalization is broadly popular, and Biden…
Garry Tan is a founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital. Initialized Capital Initialized Capital founding partner Garry Tan is taking over as the CEO of Y Combinator. A 2008 Y Combinator founder himself, Tan served as a YC partner from 2010 to 2015. Partners Jen Wolf and Brett Gibson will take over for Tan…
“It’s such a small drop in the bucket for people like me, and even though I’m really glad there’s some kind of relief, there’s still so much pressure,” says Sarah, who just had $20,000 of her $86,000 debt forgiven. Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images President Joe Biden just canceled $10,000 in student-loan debt for many federal borrowers….
Once a “peasant food,” quinoa’s nutritional qualities have transformed it into a global superfood. Royal quinoa is considered the gold standard of quinoa and only grows in Bolivia. The global quinoa market is expected to grow from $90 billion today to nearly $150 billion by 2026. Once considered “peasant food”, quinoa’s highly nutritional qualities have…
Former President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC on August 6, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Digital World Acquisition Corp. extended its four-day decline to nearly 20% as a vote looms to delay its IPO.The SPAC has agreed to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social media company.Trump defended the recent business performance of…
The Federal Trade Commission has sued a data broker called Kochava, alleging the company sold geolocation information that could be used to reveal visits to sensitive locations. The agency says the data could show movements to and from reproductive health clinics, places of worship and addiction recovery centers, as well as homeless and domestic violence…
A new Mafia game is on the way. Series publisher 2K Games and Hanger 13, the studio that worked on Mafia III and Mafia: Definitive Edition, announced the news in a blog post celebrating the franchise’s 20th anniversary. “I’m happy to confirm we’ve started work on an all-new Mafia project,” said Roman Hladík, Hanger 13…
Meta has followed through on its threat promise to bring NFT (non-fungible token) support to Facebook. Users can now post digital collectibles that they have in their digital wallets across Facebook and Instagram. After they connect digital wallets to one app, they’ll be able to access NFTs from both of them. The company is making…
Google may have confirmed that the Pixel Watch was indeed the real deal back at Google I/O, but they kept pricing and specs and features to themselves, likely for the full reveal in the fall alongside the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Since then, reports of some of those items have trickled out and…