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DOP Launches on Polygon PoS to Enhance Data Ownership in Web3

Tokyo, Japan, July 29th, 2024, Chainwire DOP, the Data Ownership Protocol has announced its upcoming deployment on Polygon PoS. This move aims to enhance interoperability and efficiency, giving users greater control over their personal information on the Polygon network through selective transparency. “The integration of DOP into the Polygon ecosystem underscores the need to bring

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Marvel Brings Back Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo Brothers for the Next Two Avengers Movies

What’s that saying again? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? That seems to be the tack Marvel is taking with the MCU. Arguably the biggest announcement out of San Diego Comic Con is the news that the superhero juggernaut plans to do more of the same in the next few years: They’ve brought back

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Fire and Blood in the Pine Barrens: Hunter Shea’s The Jersey Devil

The blurb on the cover of Hunter Shea’s novel, The Jersey Devil, celebrates it as “Old-School Horror.” That, like the title of the book, is dead-on accurate. It’s not normally my genre, and it’s got some serious triggers for graphic violence and sexual assault. And yet, of everything I’ve read or watched so far about

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Bitcoin jumps 7% on bullish Trump remarks, reports of a Democratic ‘reset’

Bitcoin is up 7% following the start of the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, which began on Thursday and culminated with a pro-crypto keynote speech by Donald Trump. In his address, the former president laid out plans to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world.” As

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Wall Street watcher Burt Malkiel has studied the market for decades. Here are the average investor’s biggest mistakes

Everyone seems to be looking for the magic bullet when it comes to investing. Index funds are boring, so surely there’s more upside to be found in AI or small caps or some other yet-to-be-discovered opportunity that will yield unprecedented returns. Right? Not according to Burt Malkiel. The author of the best-selling investing bible A

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Tor Publishing Group and Tor UK Announce Major Multi-Book Deal for Bestselling and Award-Winning Author John Scalzi

Tor Publishing Group and Tor UK are delighted to announce a joint, multi-book deal for 10 more books from New York Times bestselling and Award-Winning author John Scalzi for a major seven figure advance. The joint deal for World English rights was brokered between Tor Publishing Group’s Patrick Nielsen Hayden, VP, Editor-At-Large, along with Tor

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Web3 Infrastructure Provider Jambo Partners With Pixelverse To Directly Integrate Web3 Games Into Its Mobile Phones

The partnership aims to extend Web 3 gaming across emerging markets and extend the adoption of blockchain in over 120 countries worldwide. This partnership will be “a catalyst for wider mass adoption of blockchain services”, according to Kori Leon Co-founder of Pixelverse.  Pixelverse, a cyberpunk-themed game ecosystem available on Telegram and web browsers, announced its

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Newest Olympic attack cuts French broadband internet lines

A number of fiber optic cables carrying broadband service across France’s southern and eastern regions were cut overnight in the latest attack on the country’s infrastructure during the Olympic Games.   Connections serving Paris, which is hosting the Olympic Games this week, and the games themselves weren’t affected, a spokesman for Olympics telecom partner, Orange

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Gen X and Boomers are the only ones who can afford to eat at fancy restaurants anymore

Quantity is the new quality when it comes to eating out in the United States, according to new research by Bank of America. The bank looked at which eateries customers were picking amid turbulent economic conditions. Households on the lower end of the income spectrum have been showing “cracks” in their spending for some time—Citigroup

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