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The billionaire investor, who bet big on Nvidia when it heralded the AI boom, began scaling back his position after the stock jumped from the $150 area to over $900 per share within a year. In a recent interview, Stanley Druckenmiller is said to have regretted selling Nvidia stock too early and admitted that he…
This price action propelled Bitcoin to its highest in nearly four months, when the latter half of July set off a bigger rally in the broader cryptocurrency market and boded well for many crypto-related stocks. Bitcoin soared past $34,500 on Oct 24 as investors eagerly look forward to positive developments in the crypto sector. The…
A new report by Tax Justice Network has revealed that the British Overseas Territories have finally taken over as the world’s largest enablers of corporate tax abuse. The study on the international scale of tax avoidance by the organization concentrates on the territories, among which are the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and Bermuda,…
China said it is raising its financial support program for the real estate projects on the “whitelist.” The move in China should stabilize its struggling property market, weighed down by debt and buyer confidence. Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) Chairman Ni Hong confirmed financing for those projects would rise to 4 trillion yuan…
Detroit, MI – In an absolutely gruesome blow to the Detroit Lions, the star pass rusher, Aidan Hutchinson, was carted off with a broken tibia in Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears. The break occurred in the early second quarter as Hutchinson raked with an offensive lineman to bring down Bears quarterback Justin Fields. Hutchinson…
Eight big deals have to be finalized before the 2024 NFL trade deadline once the Bills and Jets have gone big on the WR front. In the run-up to this year’s presidential election, the Trump campaign has reportedly spent millions on a series of so-called hate-filled anti-transgender advertisements aimed at mobilizing right-wing voters. This month,…
A campaign of inflammatory anti-transgender ads targeting conservative voters before the 2024 presidential election has spent millions of dollars. The ad campaign, which broke this month in some key swing states, targets transgender athletes in women’s sports and youth gender-affirming the former now a high-profile theme for the Republican Party and the latter representing a…
Georgia stands out as one of the most competitive swing states in this election year, and it is witnessing a record upsurge in early voting as election season draws closer. State officials report that over 750,000 ballots have been cast so far-that’s a record for early voting compared to any previous midterm elections. It is…
Introduction: The Age of Advanced Phage Research Leading research in 2024 has better explained the intricate host-virus relationship between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts, showing how these small bacterial predators make use of auxiliary metabolic genes to influence host metabolism. A team from the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, in cooperation with its international team, presents this…
So far in 2024, an unprecedented trend—a host of new proteins—have been designed with the help of AI. Major gains in machine learning and structural biology have, for the first time, allowed AI to go the extra step: not merely predicting the structure of an already-existing protein, but actually designing completely new proteins that could…
