July 25, 2022
Protest at Nation’s Fifth Busiest Container Port Fuels Ongoing Supply...
A weeklong and ongoing protest at the Port of Oakland by independent truckers has had an immediate impact upon the movement of containers from the nation’s fifth busiest container port....
July 06, 2022
TikTok Troubles Put Focus on Livestream Shopping’s Environmental, Data Impact
Though it’s early in the “what happened” analysis phase, the collapse of livestream shopping on TikTok in Western markets says a lot about how consumers want to shop on their...
May 02, 2022
El Salvador’s Bitcoin-As-Currency Experiment Is Costly And Failing
Eight months after its September rollout, it’s become evident that El Salvador’s much-hyped experiment with making bitcoin a legal tender has been a failure so far. President Nayib Bukele’s policy...
May 02, 2022
Google Fires Another AI Researcher
Google is still firing AI researchers amid criticism of its work. The New York Times has learned Google fired machine learning scientist Satrajit Chatterjee in March, soon after it refused to publish a paper Chatterjee and others wrote...
April 14, 2022
Crypto’s Top Privacy Coin Is Spiking Wildly, and Sanctions Busters...
The biggest, most effective privacy coin was on a six-month slide until Feb. 24, when it began a steady climb, rising from around $235 to $335. While there a lot...
March 22, 2022
Visa CEO Predicts Long Ukraine War at Bloomberg Summit
Numerous issues are being hashed out at the Bloomberg Equality Summit to look into how the economy is developing, including the potential that the war in Ukraine may last for...
February 17, 2022
In US and Canada, Crypto Enforcement Moves From Words to...
If 2021 was the year that the growing need to enforce anti-money laundering (AML) rules within the cryptocurrency industry turned into the creation of actual rules and enforcement tools, 2022...
February 16, 2022
Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets, Investigates ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donations
The Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police have ordered companies to stop doing transactions from 34 crypto wallets, which they’ve tied to the “Freedom Convoy” trucker protests in...
February 15, 2022
Crypto Caught in Crossfire as Canada’s PM Trudeau Invokes Emergencies...
Cryptocurrency transactions became a surprising casualty of Canada’s Emergencies Act, invoked for the first time in Canada’s history by the country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in response to the Freedom...