[CNBC] Ford is significantly cutting its North American vehicle production in July due to an ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips impacting the global automotive industry. The automaker plans to idle or reduce production at eight plants, including six in the U.S., for varying periods of time into early August due […]
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[CNBC] GetYourGuide began selling activities, attractions and tours in the U.S. this week. The Berlin-based travel site also will for the first time accept dogecoin as payment. The firm joins a growing list of travel companies jumping on the crypto bandwagon. Germany-based travel site GetYourGuide has debuted U.S. offerings and […]
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[Markets Insider, Getty Images] The “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki expects a historic crash across financial markets. Kiyosaki advised investors to buy gold, silver, and bitcoin ahead of a downturn. The personal-finance guru cheered on Robinhood and Reddit traders earlier this year. Financial markets are barreling toward a […]
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[CNET, Chuang Zhao] The story of our species may run through a war-time construction project back to the wild and woolly steppes of Asia where Dragon people once roamed. One of the key pieces to the puzzle of our long narrative arc as a human species may have been hiding […]
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[Science Alert, Wikimedia Commons] The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed fool’s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal. The term was often used during the California gold rush in the 1840s because inexperienced prospectors would claim discoveries of gold, but in reality it would be pyrite, composed of worthless […]
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[Forbes, Wikimedia Commons] It’s you and me, Kepler−442b. What does it take for an alien exoplanet to host life as we know it? A lot, as it turns out. Despite a paper last year claiming that there may be 300 million planets in our galaxy that are “potentially habitable,” new research published in the Monthly Notices […]
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[CNBC, Glauber Contessoto] This 33-year-old dogecoin investor refuses to sell despite losing over $167,000 in one day Glauber Contessoto says that he invested over $250,000 in dogecoin on Feb. 5 with a belief that he’d become a millionaire — and on April 15, he did. But on Monday, the top cryptocurrencies by market value […]
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[Benzinga, UnSplash] Not Even Elon Musk Can’t Save It, Says Bitcoin Bull Pseudonymous cryptocurrency analyst Tyler Durden said on social media that even Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk cannot save Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) from hitting a “programmed” 0.05 level. What Happened: Durden, a known Bitcoin bull, posted a chart on Twitter and claimed that […]
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(CNN) A unanimous Supreme Court said on Monday that student athletes could receive education-related payments, in a case that could reshape college sports by allowing more money from a billion-dollar industry to go to the players. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the court. College sports raise billions of dollars from ticket […]
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[CNBC] Many people’s first experience paying with plastic instead of cash is their debit card, which gives consumers direct access to the money in their checking account. But while debit cards have certain advantages over credit — they don’t let consumers easily rack up debt the same way that credit cards […]
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