Argentine lawmakers back Milei probe in Libra crypto scandal
09 Apr
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Argentine lawmakers back Milei probe in Libra crypto scandal

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"description" data-v-a9acf736> Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies voted to launch an investigation into President Javier Milei on allegations he promoted the Libra memecoin scam. Lawmakers in Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies backed an investigation into President Javier Milei’s alleged involvement in the Libra (LIBRA) cryptocurrency scandal. According to an April 8 report by local news outlet Buenos Aires Times, deputies in the lower house voted 128 to 93 in favor, with seven abstentions. The same proposal previously failed to move forward in the Senate. The news follows Milei promoting the LIBRA memecoin on social media. With the Argentine president leveraging his credibility as a government official and his 3.8 million followers, the token quickly reached $5, briefly touching a market cap of $4 billion. Milei has since faced accusations of wrongdoing, with critics claiming that LIBRA was a rug-pull scam...
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EU slaps tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream to target Trump’s red states
09 Apr
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EU slaps tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream to target Trump’s red states

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According to an internal document seen by POLITICO, the Commission is considering slapping tariffs of up to 25 per cent on a broad range of exports from the U.S. worth around €22.1 billion based on the EU’s 2024 imports.The list features run-of-the-mill agricultural and industrial commodities such as soybeans, meat, tobacco, iron, steel, and aluminium — to hit the American sectors that rely most on transatlantic exports.On Wednesday, EU countries will vote on the new duties, anticipating no significant opposition.A 25 per cent duty will then kick in from May 16 on a second batch of imported items such as steel, meat, white chocolate, and polyethylene. Finally, a 25 per cent duty on almonds and soybeans will take effect Dec. 1. (Leave it to the Commission to build some suspense.)According to POLITICO's analysis of 2024...
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The Download: a “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions
09 Apr
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The Download: a “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions

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This is today's edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire? For several years now, Texas-based company Colossal Biosciences has been in the news for its plans to re-create woolly mammoths someday. But now it’s making a bold new claim—that it has actually “de-extincted” an animal called the dire wolf. Dire wolves were large, big-jawed members of the canine family. More than 400 of their skulls have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in California. Ultimately they were replaced by smaller relatives like the gray wolf. In its effort to re-create the animal, Colossal says, it extracted DNA information from dire wolf bones and used...
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How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science
09 Apr
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How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science

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Physics Physicists have determined that the ideal technique for pour-over coffee can use up to 10 per cent fewer beans to make a cup just as flavoursome By Matthew Sparkes   The right technique can make great pour-over coffee with fewer beans Kemal Yildirim/Getty Images Physicists have discovered a technique that can produce the perfect cup of coffee with up to 10 per cent fewer beans. With climate change making coffee production an increasingly tricky proposition, it is becoming more important to brew in the most efficient way possible, says Arnold Mathijssen at the University of Pennsylvania. “Coffee is getting harder to grow, and so, because of that, prices for coffee will likely increase in coming years,” he says. “The idea for this research was really to see if we could help do something by reducing the amount of coffee beans that are...
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