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Coinbase debuted on the U.S. stock market on April 14, 2021 - the same day U.S. senators confirmed Gary Gensler to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the country's top markets regulator.Gensler, who has called the crypto sector a "Wild West" riddled with fraud, is now embroiled in a battle with the world's largest publicly-traded crypto firm over a core debate: whether digital assets are investment contracts akin to stocks or bonds that should be regulated by the SEC. Friction between crypto proponents and…

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.If you’re reading this newsletter, you are probably aware that the Oscars happened last weekend, with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” taking seven statuettes, including best picture, director, original screenplay, actress, supporting actress, supporting actor and editing. But our coverage doesn’t end when the show is over, as there is still plenty to mull over, dissect and discuss.Justin Chang wrote about…

The Nile is the longest river in the world and its delta is remarkable from outer space. Credit: NASAAccording to new research from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the Nile River Delta, which is crucial for the survival of 60 million Egyptians who rely on it for all aspects of life, is facing an existential threat from extensive heavy metal pollution, coastal erosion, and seawater intrusion. Additionally, the delta serves as a vital pitstop for migratory birds along the East African flyway.The research, headed by…

The feel-good sitcom Ted Lasso is based on an absurd premise: an American college football coach takes on manager duties at a small club in the English Premier League, despite knowing almost nothing about soccer. And despite the typically short shelf-life inherent in the job, he managed to keep the gig. People (mostly) love him, the team (eventually) played well, and here we are with Ted (Jason Sudeikis) preparing for his third season in charge. It brings with it a burning question: what the hell is he still doing…

The Nile is the longest river in the world and its delta is remarkable from outer space. (Image/NASA). Credit: NASA Large-scale heavy metal pollution, coastal erosion and seawater intrusion pose an existential threat to the Nile River Delta and endanger 60 million people (about twice the population of Texas) in Egypt who depend on its resources for every facet of life, according to new research from the USC Viterbi School of…

Too Long; Didn't ReadAIs capable of transforming civilization will not have minds anything like ours. They won't have feelings or motives, only goals and unprecedented abilties to realize those goals. So far, we have discovered no way to prevent them from pursuing goals in an unbounded way that would at least suspend humanity's control over its own future, or at worst destroy us completely.L O A D I N G. . . comments & more! Too Long; Didn't ReadAIs capable of transforming civilization will not have minds…

via Marvel Studios Time is a fickle and cruel mistress, and it waits for nobody, not even an Academy Award-winning star like Brie Larson. The Marvel Cinematic Universe stalwart appears to be having something of an existential crisis at the moment, after taking to Twitter to make her temporal bugbears heard, and it’s a sentiment we can all find ourselves agreeing with at one stage or another. Anyone else feel like time is going by waaaaaaay too fast 🙃— Brie Larson (@brielarson) January 29, 2023 Then again, us…

That’s a lot of lawyers.They are throwing literally hundreds of millions of euros at this problem. And as much as Ms. Vestager is committed to fighting this, she is facing an uphill battle against enormous resources of entrenched powers. So it will be a tough fight. But what is making me very optimistic is that, for the first time, I'm seeing the commission reach out to small companies like Proton to really understand what the issue is and get to the heart of it. It's a shift. Instead of just listening to whatever Big…

Does anyone actually think Christmas movies aren’t worthwhile? You’d have to be a real Scrooge to patently believe that an entire genre of film shouldn’t exist, especially when it brings so much joy to people around the world each holiday season. The truth is, we understand Christmas movies might not be your thing, but just because something doesn’t appeal to you doesn’t mean it’s invalid. The new HBO Max movie, A Hollywood Christmas, attempts to make that exact point. Check out the trailer below.…

While travelling through the US in 1994-5, Roy Montgomery recorded two albums, Scenes from the South Island and Temple IV, which would set the tone for three decades of maverick work by the quietly avuncular New Zealand guitarist. “My partner Jo had died in 1992, and I felt I owed it to her to travel and deal with what had happened,” he says, via Zoom from his home in Christchurch. “I sub-let an apartment in New York from a friend with a four-track recorder and lots of effects. It was lonely, like solitary confinement,…