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Jihan Wu’s Crypto Mining Platform Bitdeer To Go Public In $4 Billion SPAC Deal
Bitdeer is a spinoff from Bitmain Technology, a Chinese bitcoin mining-chip manufacturing giant cofounded by Wu in 2013.Read original article here.Written by: Zinnia Lee
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Orbital Launch in January? Elon Musk Updates His Vision for SpaceX’s Starship
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has laid out a scenario for space travel that calls for his company’s Starship launch system to take on its first orbital test flight as soon as January. Starship could go through “a dozen launches next year, maybe more,” and be ready to send valuable payloads to the moon, Mars and…
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Eggshell Planets Have a Thin Brittle Crust and No Mountains or Tectonics
Planets without plate tectonics are unlikely to be habitable. But currently, we’ve never seen the surface of an exoplanet to determine if plate tectonics are active. Scientists piece together their likely surface structures from other evidence. Is there a way to determine what exoplanets might be eggshells, and eliminate them as potentially habitable? The authors…
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Second Bismarck senator announces retirement, citing ‘extreme rhetoric and divisiveness’
Oban’s retirement announcement comes just a week after Bismarck Republican Sen. Nicole Poolman told colleagues she would not run again, citing “toxic times” and diminishing civility in politics.Read original article here.
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Trygve Olson cartoon: Toxic politics in Bismarck
Forum cartoonist Trygve Olson labels the North Dakota Legislature as toxic following the resignation of one of its members.Read original article here.
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Politics and media have critically corrupted the FBI
The DC-based FBI should be given one last chance at redemption by moving to the nation’s heartland, far away from the political and media tentacles that have so deeply squeezed and corrupted it.Read original article here.Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
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Kenny Mayne and Traina Thoughts | SI Media Podcast
Episode 365 of the ‘Sports Illustrated Media Podcast’ hosted by Jimmy Traina features an interview with the longtime ESPN personality.Kenny Mayne, a longtime ESPN personality, talks about his May departure from the World Wide Leader after 27 years. Months later, how does he feel about what went down, does he have regrets revealing that ESPN…
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The IRS predicts billions in cryptocurrency seizures from fraud schemes next year after taking $3.5 billion this year
One of the high-profile cases this past year was the $1 billion seizure of thousands of bitcoin related to Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013.Read original article here.
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A new Simulation of the Universe Contains 60 Trillion Particles, the Most Ever
Today, the greatest mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists are the roles gravitational attraction and cosmic expansion play in the evolution of the Universe. To resolve these mysteries, astronomers and cosmologists are taking a two-pronged approach. These consist of directly observing the cosmos to observe these forces at work while attempting to find theoretical resolutions for…