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Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ The Tiny Computers That Pull Power From The Air (#GotBitcoin?)

The idea of a perpetual machine—one that, once set in motion, never stops—is preposterous. The energy it needs must come from somewhere. But a twist on the idea, where energy is sponged from the environment to power ultra-efficient devices, isn’t a fantasy. Some people even call it perpetual computing. Here Comes…

Donald Trump Played Central Role In Hush Payoffs To Stormy Daniels And Karen McDougal (#GotBitcoin?)

Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of president’s participation in transactions that violated campaign-finance laws. Donald Trump Played Central Role In Hush Payoffs To Stormy Daniels And Karen McDougal As a presidential candidate in August 2015, Donald Trump huddled with a longtime friend, media executive David Pecker, in his cluttered 26th floor…

Fed To Further Overhaul Stress-Testing Regime, Making It Easier For Banks To Pass (#Gotbitcoin)

Regulator aims to make test scenarios more consistent from year to year, Quarles says. Fed To Further Overhaul Stress-Testing Regime, Making It Easier For Banks To Pass (#Gotbitcoin) The Federal Reserve plans to broaden its proposal to ease stress tests for the nation’s largest banks with changes that could reduce…

California Firefighter Advocate Hits Back At Trump’s Threat To Withhold Funding Amid Devastating Fires (#GotBitcoin?)

Trump says "billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"  California Firefighter Advocate Hits Back At Trump's Threat To Withhold Funding Amid Devastating Fires President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to withhold federal…

Cybersecurity Firm Ranks Safety of Top Crypto Exchanges (#GotBitcoin?)

Prominent cybersecurity firm Group-IB has graded the security of top crypto exchanges.  Cybersecurity Firm Ranks Safety of Top Crypto Exchanges According to research conducted by the Moscow-based firm in partnership with crypto asset insurance platform CryptoIns, the Kraken platform is the safest crypto exchange. In contrast, OKEx — the now-second crypto…

Could Organic Pesticides Be The Next Gold-Rush For Entrepreneurs? (#GotBitcoin)

Hunt for Beneficial Microbes Comes Amid Regulatory Scrutiny of Man-Made Chemical Insecticides. Could Organic Pesticides Be The Next Gold-Rush For Entrepreneurs? (#GotBitcoin)   On his way to a conference in Orlando, Fla., Brian Vande Berg pulled his rental sedan over every 10 minutes to hike along beaches and marshes and…

Wall Street Fines Rose in 2018, Boosted By Foreign Bribery Cases (#GotBitcoin?)

The Securities and Exchange Commission levied nearly $4 billion in fines related to almost 500 enforcement actions. Wall Street Fines Rose in 2018, Boosted By Foreign Bribery Cases Wall Street’s main regulator levied nearly $4 billion in fines related to almost 500 enforcement actions, rebounding from a year earlier when its…

Consumer’s Appetite For Organic, Antibiotic / Hormone-Free Food Outstrips Supply (#GotBitcoin?)

Nature’s Path buys cropland, while Chipotle provides financing for farmers Last year, executives at organic cereal maker Nature’s Path Foods Inc. grew so frustrated with organic-grain shortfalls that they took a radical step: They bought a farm. U.S. retail sales of organic food more than tripled to $32.3 billion over…

Scientists Say Mysterious ‘Oumuamua’ Object Could Be An Alien Spacecraft (#GotBitcoin)

Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it's a probe sent by extraterrestrials.  Scientists Say Mysterious 'Oumuamua' Object Could Be An Alien Spacecraft (#GotBitcoin) Maybe it's an alien spacecraft. Scientists have been puzzling over Oumuamua ever since the mysterious space object was observed tumbling past the sun in late 2017. Given…

Three Steps To Take If You’re Behind In Retirement Savings (#GotBitcoin?)

Too many savers are “chasing” their retirement dreams in the wrong way. A recent Allianz Life study found that nearly half of individuals between the ages of 45 and 65 surveyed consider themselves to be retirement chasers. These are defined as people who are saving for retirement--but have either fallen…

US. Can Learn From China’s Spot-The-Spy Program (GotBitcoin?)

BEIJING—In Xi Jinping’s campaign to galvanize China around threats to national security, the latest focus has turned to spies. In recent weeks, the country has dramatically amped up a call for vigilance even from its youngest citizens, with games such as “Spot the Spy” being played in schools. Around the…

Would Someone Please Buy US Treasury Bonds? (#GotBitcoin?)

The erosion of demand in emerging Asian markets reflects their maturation into more stable economies. Would Someone Please Buy US Treasury Bonds? (#GotBitcoin?) Asian investors are proving less and less eager to buy U.S. government bonds, even as the Treasury Department prepares to sell $1.3 trillion of new debt in…