Author: Vidya Saras

Jaroslav LukivandFan WangWatch: Deadly fire engulfs Hong Kong apartment blocksFirefighters are still searching for hundreds of missing people after a massive fire tore through multiple high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong.At least 83 people died in the blaze – the city’s deadliest in more than 70 years – at Wang Fuk Court’s complex, which is home to thousands. The tower blocks had been undergoing extensive renovations – and while the exact cause for the fire is unclear, police say materials on the outside of the buildings may have facilitated its spread.Three construction company executives have been arrested on suspicion of…

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Black Friday’s not just the biggest sale day of the year, it’s also the day your home is recovering from the Thanksgiving horde and preparing for the rest of the holiday season. If your old-school upright vacuum and mop or robot cleaner aren’t going to be able to keep up, now’s your moment to make the biggest upgrade possible — to a Dreame robot cleaner. Dreame’s Black Friday sale is taking up to $800 off the price of their amazingly smart, technologically advanced cleaning machines. If the “technologically advanced” part gives you pause, don’t worry — Dreame’s floor cleaning robots…

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Bitcoin price ripped higher above $90,000 on Wednesday, extending a sharp rally fueled by accelerating institutional demand and a new wave of Wall Street–engineered crypto products.  The surge followed fresh disclosures showing BlackRock increasing its exposure to its own spot Bitcoin ETF, and JPMorgan pitching a complex, high-stakes structured note tied directly to BlackRock’s IBIT fund. Bitcoin price touched 24-hour lows of $86,129 before rebounding above $90,300, continuing a volatile upswing that has defined the fourth quarter. BlackRock’s latest regulatory filing shows the Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio now holds 2,397,423 shares of IBIT, valued at $155.8 million as of September…

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Blockchains are a powerful technology, as regular readers of the blog already likely agree. They allow for a large number of interactions to be codified and carried out in a way that greatly increases reliability, removes business and political risks associated with the process being managed by a central entity, and reduces the need for trust. They create a platform on which applications from different companies and even of different types can run together, allowing for extremely efficient and seamless interaction, and leave an audit trail that anyone can check to make sure that everything is being processed correctly. However,…

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By the end of 2025, the NFT industry will hardly be the same exaggerated world of 2021 and the deep correction of 2022–2023. The market’s focus, which was mainly on avatar collections and speculative flips, has expanded to a more diversified ecosystem where utility, interoperability, and models of digital ownership are valued more than quick profit. The change has been slow, but 2025 is shaping up to be a landmark year in the evolution of non-fungible tokens.In general, the NFT market in 2025 is a good example of cautious optimism: the extreme fluctuations are hardly present, there are more genuine…

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After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of those people also work at Foresite Labs.Details about Prometheus remain limited. Its founding date, formal name, and headquarters haven’t been publicly identified. But the dinner Bajaj hosted in June provided other clues.At least two other featured guests that night, including former Nvidia senior research scientist Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, quietly joined Prometheus early this year, their newly updated LinkedIn profiles show.Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, two former Google researchers who coauthored a…

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Thanksgiving is a time when families thrive, and our conservative movement can learn key lessons from this uniquely American tradition as we move forward together.Let’s begin with what’s best about the day: a shared table, familiar laughter, and the quiet grace of gratitude. Gratitude is not the fruit of harmony; it is the seed.

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