Salt Lake City being preferred as a shoo-in to host the 2034 Winter Olympics was expected. The surprise was the IOC favoring the French bid for the 2030 edition. The International Olympic Committee ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo to call governor race July 7 with incumbent Koike in focus
Tokyo will hold its gubernatorial race on July 7, 2024, the capital's election commission said Wednesday, with a focus on whether the ... ( read original story ...)
“Tokyo Vice” season 2 first look reveals new characters, new dangers
So it takes guts to end a season with a plethora of cliffhangers, as Tokyo Vice did last year. But fans of the ‘90s-set Japanese crime show (a Max original produced by Fifth Season and WOWOW, Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)
‘Large’ sea creature with 240 tentacles discovered as new species off coast of Japan
The St. George’s cross medusa jellyfish is considered “large,” measuring about 4 inches wide and about 3 inches tall, the study said. It has a circular body shape and about 240 tentacles. Its most distinctive feature is its bright red, “cross-shaped” stomach. ( read original story ...)
SoFi Is Exiting Crypto With Banking Regulators Stepping Up Scrutiny
SoFi Technologies Inc., the fast growing one-stop shop for financial-services products, is exiting crypto even with token prices surging because of increased scrutiny of the sector by banking ...
Wormhole raises $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, finalizing split from Jump Crypto amid firm’s recent pullback
On Wednesday, the project announced that it had drummed up $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, which makes it the largest funding round for a crypto project in 2023, according to Crunchbase’s ...
Why This Crypto Firm Wants to Invest 60% of Profits into a Universal Basic Income
The intersection of cryptocurrency and social responsibility took center stage in a recent discussion hosted by Roundtable anchor Rob Nelson and featuring JB, the founder and CEO of Kryotech.
Acctual raises $3.85M to help crypto companies better manage their bills
Acctual has raised $3.85 million in seed funding at a $15 million post-money valuation to help crypto startups manage their money, the company’s co-founder and CEO Atikh Bana exclusively told ...
Charlie Munger Had No Love for Crypto
Charlie Munger didn’t pull punches. One of his favorite punching bags was crypto. The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway wouldn’t hesitate to give his rebuke of digital assets like bitcoin when asked ...
IPO Blasts Into Buy Range, Joining AI Race With Google, Microsoft
Alphabet has the Bard chatbot and Microsoft has Bing powered by ChatGPT. Now, 2021 IPO Monday.com has its own plans for more deeply weaving AI into its productivity platform, fueling a new buy zone ...
Swap London for Liverpool and Santorini for Paros: Ten holiday hotspots and the (often cheaper and less crowded) ‘duplicates’ taking the internet by storm. Are you tempted?
Sapporo is a 'wonderful ski destination that’s a little further afield than the Alps', says Expedia, which noticed a 38 per cent increase in flight searches to the Japanese destination - a 'dupe' for ... ( read original story ...)
From Crypto To T-Bills: Inside Meow’s Hard Pivot
Prudent, because after the collapse of stablecoin TerraUSD in mid-May of 2022, they began hearing rumors that crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital would go bankrupt — which it soon did, eventually ...
Sri Lanka makes debt restructuring deal with Japan, other creditors
Debt-ridden Sri Lanka and its creditor nations, including Japan, reached a basic agreement on Wednesday over Colombo's debt restructuring, a senior Japanese Finance Ministry official said. The ...
Wim Wenders’ new films explore the ‘poetic medium’ of 3-D and Tokyo toilets
Wim Wenders is having a banner year. Now 78, the filmmaker who was first celebrated in the 1970s as a leader of New German Cinema is enjoying a peak moment with two acclaimed new films. The ... ( read original story ...)
US Osprey aircraft crashes off coast of Japan with eight on board
A US military Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, with eight people on board, according to a spokesperson from the Japan Coast Guard. ( read original story ...)
Philippines’ SEC to block access to world’s largest crypto exchange Binance
The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission has begun the process of blocking access to the world's largest crypto exchange Binance, whose chief last week stepped down and pleaded guilty to ...