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The latest crypto news seems to focus on the current bear market. Crypto holders are concerned and many new crypto entrants are asking: how long does a bear market last? Buying into crypto projects at this time may seem quite dicey as prices are unstable and can be quite volatile. The best thing for holders to do is to be on the lookout for good projects suffering a temporary price slump. Most times, the bear market provides investors with the next big cryptocurrency available for cheap. Take advantage of this…

Payments giants and fintech startups in India on Saturday requested the central bank to treat widely used prepaid payment instruments on par with bank accounts for customers who have undertaken certain verifications, days after the monetary authority signalled industry-wide crackdown. The Payments Council of India, a unit of influential industry body IAMAI, said in a letter to the Reserve Bank of India that by treating prepaid payment instruments — prepaid purchasing cards and wallets –- as bank…

via Warner Bros. Jeffrey Wright may have been working in the industry for over 30 years, but in an ironic twist of fate, the pandemic era might just have seen him embark on the hottest streak of his career. The actor has appeared in a slew of critical and commercial success stories including Marvel’s What If…?, The French Dispatch, No Time to Die, and The Batman, while he’ll be back on our screens this weekend when Westworld returns for its fourth season. The mysterious sci-fi series has proven to be…

Delegates wait in line at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Cannes, France, June 2019Cannes LionsWhile media executives are meeting with advertising leaders this week over glasses of rose at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, they can't help but talk about the disconnect between hanging out with celebrities on yachts and the creeping feeling that a recession is around the corner."It feels like a party here," NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said to CNBC's Julia Boorstin from Cannes…

Last month Panasonic announced its most rugged Toughbook to date. And now Getac has added two new additions to its family of rugged mobile workstations, both built to survive the kind of extreme operational conditions faced by defense personnel, in transport and logistics operations and field work in the energy industries.The X600 and X600 Pro share much of the same feature set, coming with a 15.6-inch Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) LumiBond display that's reported capable of delivering "superb color and contrast" while also…

Make good choices at Digimon camp The long-awaited Digimon Survive got a new trailer today, highlighting both its tactics and its story ahead of its July 29 launch. There are dangers, decisions, and a whole lot of Digivolution. Digimon Survive is one-part visual novel mystery adventure, following a character lost in the world of Digimon. These sections seem to follow the cast of humans as they venture around, trying to figure out what’s happened and how to get back home. Then, once a battle breaks out, it gets tactical.…

Many new data scientists were drawn to the field of data because it allowed them to handle complex issues using cutting-edge learning techniques, which had a significant influence on business. Many firms’ interactions with IT, data scientists, and data engineers are typically problematic in today’s business environment. Why? One of the major causes for this is that data scientists rely too heavily on IT and data engineers to gain the tools or environments they need and to put work into…

The magnitude of our plastic waste problem has scientists searching far and wide for answers, and for a team at Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) this search has led them to hungry little critters known as "superworms." These tiny creatures have now been shown to have a healthy appetite for plastic waste, which the researchers were able to trace to specific enzymes in their gut bacteria that convert it into energy, even leading the worms to gain weight as a result.The Zophobas morio species at the center of this…

One of the noticeable things about microbiologist Christian Rinke’s laboratory is the startlingly loud crunching noise of wormlike larvae chewing their way through polystyrene, burrowing into blocks of the plastic foam. Before he discards a chewed-through block, Rinke says he raises it to his ear to check for stragglers. “If the worm is still eating in there,” he says, “you can actually hear it.” Rinke and his colleagues have been feeding plastic to Zophobas morio beetle larvae—dubbed “superworms” for their large size—to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One suggested way to save humankind in the event of a deadly pandemic or other extreme global catastrophe is establishing a safe refuge—on an island or in such far-out places as the moon or under water—where a portion of the human population can stay alive. …