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Why a Growing or Shrinking Fed Balance Sheet Can Impact Your Investments From an accounting standpoint, a balance sheet is a list of those things owed and those things owned. In a household, one may own what’s in their bank account, their car, and possibly a percentage of the dwelling’s value; those are counted as a person’s assets. What one may have in student loan debt, or mortgage … |
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Could a Code Change Slash Cryptocurrency Energy Use? Fewer and fewer people are using bitcoin for digital payments. Nevertheless, bitcoin transactions are consuming more energy than ever before – the same amount as the whole of Thailand. With a carbon footprint equivalent to the Czech Republic’s (around 114 million tonnes per year), bitcoin is cancelling out other climate wins. The global … |
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Twitter Gets a New Board Member Who Instantly Causes Stock to Rocket Elon Musk, known to be one of the most innovative CEOs of this generation, has been causing the SEC to become more innovative just to keep him from violating disclosure rules and other regulations. Some of his more public SEC problems are with what he posts on Twitter as the CEO of Tesla. On Monday, he filed the wrong … |
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Looming Cryptocurrency Regulation and SEC Thoughts Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the Commission’s staff to study how to extend investor protections to cryptocurrency platforms. The staff was also tasked with determining how to regulate platforms where securities and non-securities, like cryptocurrencies, trade together. This … |
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Can My Electric Car Power My House? Not Yet for Most Drivers, but Vehicle-to-Home Charging is Coming Drivers are starting to consider EVs as more than a means of transportation; the cars can also be a source of power when the electric grid fails. Bidirectional charging is a selling point on vehicles like the Ford electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck, which is due to arrive in … |
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Restoring Touch Through Electrodes Implanted in the Human Brain will Require Engineering Around a Sensory Lag More than 5 million people in the United States are affected by limb loss or paralysis. Technological devices that directly interact with the brain, known as brain-computer interfaces, offer the potential to decode an individual’s thoughts and translate them into action … |
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Why the Metaverse is Attracting Traditional Professions Walmart, Wendy’s, Jose Cuervo, and all the companies that now co-exist on the Metaverse are varied and have opened virtual location(s) for various reasons. Some aren’t yet completely sure what the reason is. They are early adopters that thought they’d claim their Metaverse stake and figure the rest out. But should accountants … |
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Blockchain Hackers Break Previous Quarterly Theft Record Crypto hackers made off with $1,307 million during the first quarter of 2022. They Averaged over $20 million per hack in 73 attacks on the blockchain ecosystem. A single attack on Ronin accounted for almost half the amount, with Solana and Binance smart chain ecosystems accounting for more than a third of that total. We take a look … |
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A Tool for Predicting the Future – Helping Nonexperts Make Forecasts Using Data Collected Over Time When predicting weather, future stock market prices, risk of developing a disease, or forecasting any outcome where time-series data is highly relevant, there is a new, more efficient than state-of-the-art deep learning method. Researchers created this tool that enables people to … |
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The Metaverse will Now Include Fast Food’s Favorite Redhead This calendar week each year, I’m always skeptical of stories that seem to not jibe with reality. Around April Fools’ you see even the most stodgy firms trying to shock and have some fun. I still remember last year when Volkswagen created a stir by saying it was rebranding to VOLTswagen? So when Wendy’s, which loves to have fun … |
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