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Monica Bass is a writer who covers arts, automotive, travel, and fashion. She's also an avid reader and enjoys writing about books.

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Ledger Users Can Now Buy Assets From Coinbase—Without First Transferring Assets Out of Their Wallet

Crypto exchange Coinbase and digital asset platform Ledger have teamed up add Coinbase Pay to the Ledger Live app. The integration means that Ledger Live users will be able to purchase digital assets directly from Coinbase without first having to transfer their crypto off their hardware wallet. That also means that Ledger Live users can […]

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Disaster For Republicans As Trump To Install Lara Trump At RNC

In what will be bad news for every Republican candidate not named Trump, the former president has endorsed his daughter-in-law Lara Trump and campaign co-chair for RNC leadership positions. Politico reported: In addition to the Whatley nod, Trump will also support Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, to serve as the RNC’s co-chairwoman. Lara Trump

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Bitcoin Betting Site Thunderpick Reveals $1 Million 'Counter-Strike 2' Competition

Thunderpick, a cryptocurrency-centric esports and traditional sports betting platform, announced on Tuesday the launch of the Thunderpick World Championship 2024, a global Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) tournament with a sizable $1 million prize pool.  Last year, Thunderpick held a Counter-Strike 2 tournament with $600,000 up for grabs, which was paid out in Bitcoin. FaZe Clan, a

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Is That Joe Biden or an AI Deepfake? White House Plans to Tag Authentic Content

After an AI-generated deepfake of U.S. President Joe Biden aimed to fool New Hampshire primary voters last month, the administration is stepping up efforts to authenticate official communications from the White House. With the Pandora’s box of AI cracked wide open, technologists and ethicists alike are scrambling to find ways to combat AI-generated deepfakes. The

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Bitcoin Price Keeps Its $50,000 Foothold, Putting Virtually Everyone In the Money

Bitcoin has maintained the $50,000 foothold it reached yesterday—meaning only a tiny number of BTC holders are still sitting on unrealized losses for their investments, according to blockchain analytics firm IntotheBlock. The company now estimates that 94% of investors are in the money, meaning they’ve got an unrealized gain on their Bitcoin holdings. Another 6%

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California schools now allow kids to attend with cough and cold symptoms, health department says

A growing number of schools are relaxing their restrictions and opening their doors to kids with coughs, sore throats and other symptoms. This is a marked difference from the strict guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic — when parents were advised to keep students home at any sign of illness. California is one of the states

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The Gift of Reading Toni Morrison to My Black Daughter in an Age of Book Bans

In my circle, we give our daughters the gift of innocence. We give them the gift of no sleepovers, no unchaperoned events, no unbridled trust in other adults. It takes a lot of mental and physical effort to break generational curses and prevent your daughters from learning the world you learned too soon. My daughter

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Literary Loops: Mariah Stovall on the Role of Repetition in Music and Fiction

Without repetition, there is no music. Entire genres—trap; bachata—rely on reworking characteristic instrumentations, rhythms, and beats, beats that are themselves the stuff of repetition. Blues has its signature chord progressions. Disco and its danceable descendants lean into the power of synthesized loops. Harsh or ambient, noise music confidently gazes in on and repeats itself. Themes,

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