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Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities have once again cracked down on cryptocurrencies and online exchanges as the value of national currency values in a chaotic economy. Last month, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) suddenly stopped paying for rial on all cryptocurrency exchanges, causing more than 10 million crypto users to spend it on Bitcoin and other global online currencies. The goal was to counter the further depreciation of the national currencies fought by stopping foreign currency changes. The crypto market grew significantly last year and leaned towards a bullish 2025 2025, leading countless young Iranians to a growing global…
The US State Department says it will cut overseas development and aid programs by $54 billion.The US has dramatically cut budgets for its overseas development and aid programs, with multi-year contracts falling by 92% or $54 billion, the State Department said. After taking office on January 20th, US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for a 90-day freezing of all US foreign aid, and will be reviewed by senior political leaders in order to cut spending on programs that do not align with his “America First” agenda. This review targeted multi-year foreign aid contracts awarded by the…
Lansing, Michigan (AP) – Michigan Democrats Governor Gretchen Whitmer I appealed directly to Young man He moved sharply to the right in his latest election in his speech Wednesday, where she continued to appeal for each major political party to work across the aisle.Whitmer gave a speech a few days later. I’m sitting next to President Donald Trump repeated his hopes at his White House dinner to find a common basis with him. As a presidential candidate in 2028 with a national profile based on advocating for women’s rights, Whitmer emphasized that her message would be directed “to all young…
Apple has brought its latest budget phone, the $599 iPhone 16E. There were no in-person events, nor were they online. The journalist scrambled his colleague’s sheds and took photos of his phone. Instead, CEO Tim Cook tweeted that new hardware was approaching just days before Apple announced its phone via a press release. Therefore, the 16E is not an exciting device. It’s something safe. This is the amalgam of the previous iPhone for creating reliable products while keeping costs down. The phone is most similar to the iPhone 13 and 14, including both the dimension and the display notchup top.…
NHL players looking to earn a university degree have a smoother path thanks to an agreement announced Wednesday between the union and Boston College.The deal will ease the way current and former players graduate from BC’s Woods College of Advanced Study. Among the alumni: Marty Walsh, Executive Director of the NHL Players Association.”It gave me the opportunity to complete my university degree,” the former mayor of Boston and the U.S. Labor Secretary said in an interview with the Associated Press. “I went to school with people who were undergraduates. It went to school before B.C., and I took classes in…
Real Madrid secured a 1-0 victory at Real Sociedad in a Copa del Rey-Ray semi-first leg clash that was undermined by further racist abuse of Brazil’s international Vinicius Jr. Brazilian forward Endric scored the only goal of the game in the first half at Lear Arena in San Sebastian in northern Spain. However, there was a controversy just before halftime as “Asensio Dai” targets Real Madrid defender Raul Asensio. The video then appeared on social media for Real Sociedad fans who appear to make a monkey gesture at Vinicius Junior while the game was stopped. Vinicius Jr. of Real Madrid…
CommerceTools is a “headless commerce” platform that provides APIs for businesses building online storefronts a few years ago, and raised funds at a whopping $1.9 billion valuation as the world shopped online in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, playbooks look a little different when it comes to e-commerce and commerce tools. TechCrunch learned and confirmed that Commercialtools has laid off dozens of employees over the past few weeks, including around 10% of staff for the first half of Wednesday, after failing to meet its sales growth targets. It also makes many executive changes, including breaking up with Chief…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is as bullish about the future of his company as ever, and has repeated feelings that Deepseek will not affect sales, he said in his latest revenue call on Wednesday. Speculation that Deepseek’s R1 model needs to require much less chips to train has driven a record drop in Nvidia’s stock price last month. However, during the revenue call, Huang touted the R1 as “a great innovation,” emphasizing that IT and other “inference” models are great news for Nvidia as they require more computing. “Inference models could consume 100 times more calculations, and future inference models…
Amazon shared an impressive vision for the future of “agents” on Wednesday. This is an improvement on the company’s Alexa, Alexa+, which handles countless mundane tasks, from booking a restaurant to finding an appliance repairman. If Amazon can deliver, it could be your first gate with a comprehensive consumer-centric agent tool. The company hopes to marry something with a more natural and expressive AI model with the ability to utilize more autonomous, third-party apps, services and platforms in a completely autonomous and intelligent way. “I believe the future is full of agents, and I’ve been believing this for a while,”…
In a newly issued executive order (EO), the Trump administration directed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the initiative of Elon Musk, to reduce government spending, and directed every agency to create a “centralized technology system” to record contracts and award awards. As part of ramp up these systems, agents’ employees who have approved individual contracts and payments for grants must submit written justifications for approval. Delegates can “suspend and promptly review” payments that the approved employees have not submitted justifications in accordance with the EO. EO also, with the support of DOGE, directs its agent managers to create a…