Montana

Prominent Democratic consulting firms have been making bank on the crypto industry’s new super PACs. Now that those groups are setting their sights on the Senate races in Ohio and Montana, a scenario that could destroy Democrats’ majority, will those consultants stay aboard the crypto gravy train? Political consulting is a mercenary business. It’s hardly surprising that major consulting firms would want a piece of the staggering sum — $85 million as of January — that crypto firms and investors have poured into…

UK rap fixture Skepta and rising Nigerian singer Portable‘s distinct personalities are on display in their surprising link up “Tony Montana.” The collaboration feels unexpected but not unwarranted, given that Skepta’s background is Nigerian as well, having even been made a chief in his parent’s home state of Ogun. On the song, Skepta raps readily over African drums and shakers, with the beat by Jae5, the British producer who helmed key tracks at the center of Afroswing, the UK’s hip-hop/Afrobeats hybrid. In…

If your mental picture of Montana includes snow-capped mountain peaks, a small town with a river running through it, or vast stretches of ranch land, you’ll find them all in Dillon, a small ranching community about 115 miles southwest of Bozeman. What may surprise here is a sprawling Patagonia store, one of only six outlets for the clothing company. The location is perhaps more fitting than meets the eye: Yvon Chouinard started Patagonia by making pitons for rock climbing from an old harvester blade.Motorists driving…

My version of Livingston, Mont., where I have lived since 1987, began with a kind of impoverished, artistic chain migration: My father and his best friend were writers. The best friend moved here in the late ’60s, and other friends — a painter, more writers — followed and stayed. As a teenager, I visited twice with my family and the area became a dream in the back of my head. At 27, when I decided to blow up my first career and leave New York City with a boyfriend, the painter offered us an old house for $150 a month.…

Montana had announced that it will challenge the ruling of a US District Court that effectively stayed a proposed ban on TikTok. Following India and many other countries, several US states have been banning the China-backed app over cybersecurity concerns…

In the US, Montana and North Carolina have been leading the list of states with the highest number of searches for "VPN" over the past few days. That's most likely because their new age verification laws have gone into effect on January 1, and adult websites are now either requiring a copy of visitors' government IDs or have blocked access in the regions altogether. As 404Media reports, Pornhub has chosen to block people in both states from accessing its website instead of asking for verification. The other websites owned…

Montana said on Tuesday it was appealing a decision by a US judge in November to block Montana's first-of-its-kind state ban on the use of short-video sharing app TikTok.Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a notice that the state is appealing the ruling to the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and…

After months of edging, Montana and North Carolina lawmakers have finished off Pornhub. Users in those states lost access to the adult site on Jan. 1 as new laws require people to verify their age to watch porn. That would have meant uploading a picture of your ID before you watch sorority sisters figure out how to pay the pizza delivery boy. To spare us all, Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, just removed access to its adult sites for those states altogether.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller“As you may know, your…

When two new Montana wind farms come online, the state will have more nameplate capacity in wind than in coal. Nameplate capacity is the maximum rated output in megawatts when a source of power operates in optimal conditions. According to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, Montana coal plants provided 1,631 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity in October. In the same period, Montana’s wind capacity provided 1,479 megawatts. Florida-based NextEra Energy’s 775 MW Clearwater Wind…

The share of adults who say they would support the U.S. government banning TikTok has declined regardless of political party and a ban remains unpopular among teens, a new survey found. Compared to a March survey that found 50 percent of U.S. adults said they support a ban, only 38 percent in the fall said they support the app being banned. Thirty-five percent say they aren’t sure, and 27 percent oppose the U.S. government banning the app, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found.…