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The FX series A Murder at the End of the World reached its conclusion on Dec. 19, finally revealing who’s been responsible for the series of killings at tech billionaire Andy Ronson’s (Clive Owen) remote Icelandic retreat. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Hacker-sleuth Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) discovers that it wasn’t Andy or his captive wife Lee (Brit Marling) but rather his AI assistant-creation Ray (Edoardo Ballerini) who’s sowed chaos among his guests, ordering Lee and Bill’s biological son, Zoomer (Kellan…

Brit Marling spent the summer of her junior year at Georgetown University interning at Goldman Sachs, an investment firm that this very publication once called “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” She ended that summer with a cushy job offer — only to reject it and, along with her pal Mike Cahill, head to Cuba to film a documentary about boxers and ballerinas caught in the middle of the U.S.-Cuba imbroglio. Marling drank from the capitalist cup and it left a very bitter taste in her mouth.…

Usually, when we think of extremely rich people such as millionaires or even billionaires, we don't imagine the best humans on this planet. In fact, most commonly we think of out-of-touch people who likely did not do the best possible thing to acquire their wealth. But just as we shouldn’t generalize other social groups, we shouldn’t generalize overly rich people as well. So, let's take a look at the list of rich people who are deemed to be philanthropic by internet folks. And let's see if this list changes our…

In recent months, the world's new billionaires made more of their fortunes from inheritance than from entrepreneurship, according to the UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report.It marked the first time in the nine-year history of the report that newly minted billionaires accumulated more wealth from inheritance than starting a business.Fifty-three heirs inherited a total of $150.8 billion in the 12 months ending in April, exceeding the total of $140.7 billion accumulated by 84 new self-made billionaires, according to the Swiss…

After just a few hours of deliberation, a New York jury on Thursday convicted Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud and conspiracy in the public flameout of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which stands accused of stealing as much as $10 billion from customers. Bankman-Fried, who gained international prominence as the disheveled crypto genius behind the exchange, which he founded in 2019, could be sentenced to decades in prison. The intense, five-week criminal trial unveiled the framework of deception that Bankman-Fried, 31, had…

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet speaks during a press conference ahead of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of online payment company Stripe, and his brother, John — a Stripe co-founder — and economist Tyler Cowen raised more than $50 million from some of the biggest names in tech: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel. Mark Zuckerberg…

‘No contracts, no peace’: Actors stage demonstration in New York Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMark Ruffalo has raged against Hollywood “fat cats” who he said “believe we are no longer of value”.The 13 Going on 30 star made the remark in a series of tweets about the actors’ strike that has effectively shut down Hollywood.Negotiators for the SAG-AFTRA union unanimously recommended a strike after talks with studios…

Since the pandemic, Madison has noticed an uptick in high-net-worth individuals booking out entire expeditions. “One client bought a whole trip to climb Mount Vinson in Antarctica for $200,000 last year,” he says. “It’s the latest trend: billionaires wanting their own private adventure with friends; they fly to Antarctica in a private jet. It’s next-level.”Although his mountain expeditions are high-end, Madison says they come with minimum comfort. The greatest luxury he offers, he adds, is at Everest base camp: Warm…

The list of top 10 robotics stocks that billionaires are brawling to buy Stocks in product quality   In this article, we have listed the top 10 robotics stocks that billionaires are brawling to buy and invest in Stock in product quality that has increased productivity. Robotics has had a transformational impact on automation processes, notably with the market’s rising need for robot arms. This demand is expected to increase further throughout the projection period of 2022 to 2027.  1.NVIDIA Corporation: GPUs from NVIDIA…

While younger tech billionaires like Elon Musk, 51, and Mark Zuckerberg, 39, may dominate the wealth headlines, the majority of the world's billionaires are over retirement age, according to a new study.The median age of the world's 3,194 billionaires is now 67 years old, data firm Altrata said in a report released Wednesday. Forty-two percent are over the age of 70, and fewer than 10% are under the age of 50, according to the report.The findings highlight the wide gap between the perception and reality of the world's…