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NFT marketplace OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff: ‘We have entered … crypto winter’

Despite a significant depression in crypto markets, plenty of top players have been hesitant to say that the good times are over for the time being, but as NFT marketplace OpenSea announces today that its laying off around 20% of the company’s employees, the top crypto startup’s CEO isn’t mincing words. ” … [T]he reality…

US venture capitalists have never had so much spare cash

You might think given the chatter in the startup world that venture capitalists are short on funds — after all, we’re hearing about young tech companies finding themselves marooned between stages, hitting up investors with smaller capital pools than prior backers and turning to equity crowdfunding to keep their cash balances healthy. And yet new data…

Social media giants aren’t protecting LGBTQ users enough, GLAAD says

TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook need to pull up their socks on making their platforms safer spaces for LGBTQ users, GLAAD says in its latest report. The organisation’s now-annual Social Media Safety Index analyses LGBTQ user safety on the five big social media platforms: TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. The first report was…

A major Bluetooth audio upgrade has arrived – just in time for the AirPods Pro 2

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group just announced it has wrapped up the final specifications for Bluetooth LE, a next-gen version of the Bluetooth audio spec promising wide-ranging performance enhancements for future headphones and earbuds like Apple’s forthcoming AirPods Pro 2. What’s different between the new Bluetooth LE spec and the older version? A key upgrade…

Russia plans to launch a national oil trading platform to foil Western energy measures, report says

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting with the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Moscow’s Kremlin June 7, 2006. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov Russian officials and oil producers are in discussion to create a global benchmark for Russian crude. The initiative been sped along by talk of a price…

TD Bank vs. Wells Fargo: Which bank is best for you?

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Ukrainian forces could wipe out all of ‘exhausted’ Russian troops’ territorial gains, retired US general says

Soldiers of Ukraine’s special operations unit sit in the car after combat operation on a forest road on the Russian troops’ potential way in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, late Tuesday, June 14, 2022. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky A retired US general told Insider that Ukraine could push Russian troops back to pre-war borders. Lt. Gen. Ben…

Meet Hunter Biden, the often scandal-plagued middle child of President Joe Biden

Hunter Biden. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USA Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s middle child, was at the center of a dubious New York post article based on purported juicy emails and photos found on a laptop sent to the outlet by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney.  Hunter Biden was previously…