For several weeks, it’s been near impossible to exist on the internet without at least hearing a mention of NFTs. Short for non-fungible tokens, they are pieces of digital content linked to the blockchain, the digital database underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum. In the simplest terms, NFTs transform digital works of art and
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The blockage of a crucial global trade route last week by a 224,000-ton container ship has raised questions over whether vessels have become too large for the waterways they navigate. The Ever Given, which ran aground in the Suez Canal last Tuesday, is in the top 1% globally in terms of vessel size, according to
Continue Reading A new report from the World Economic Forum estimates that attaining global gender parity will take nearly 136 years, up from its previous estimate of almost 100 years. WEF measures parity in four ways: economic participation and opportunity, education, health and political empowerment. Data examined by the organization showed that the gap in political empowerment
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Nota del editor: Carlos Alberto Montaner es escritor, periodista y colaborador de CNN. Sus columnas se publican en decenas de diarios de España, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Montaner es, además, vicepresidente de la Internacional Liberal. Las opiniones aquí expresadas son exclusivamente suyas. (CNN Español) — Los asiáticos están en la picota pública en Estados
Continue Reading Donald Trump is back online. The former president and first lady, Melania Trump, have launched a website to serve their personal offices. The website, 45office.com, comes after Trump’s ban from social media sites in the aftermath of the January Capitol insurrection. The site features a lengthy biography for the former president that starts, “Donald J.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Un juez de Nueva York sentenció a cadena perpetua a Juan Antonio «Tony» Hernández, hermano del presidente de Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández. La condena contra «Tony» Hernández es por los delitos de conspirar para transportar drogas a Estados Unidos, porte ilegal de armas, conspiración para usar armas y dispositivos destructivos, y hacer
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A series of bystanders who witnessed former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneel on a handcuffed George Floyd testified in court Tuesday about the horror and fear they felt watching Floyd slowly die. They included a 9-year-old girl, three high school students, a mixed martial arts fighter and a Minneapolis firefighter. Several said they had
Continue Reading (CNN) — El número de menores inmigrantes no acompañados en instalaciones fronterizas alcanzó su punto más alto el domingo desde que el gobierno federal comenzó a publicar datos la semana pasada. Había 5.767 menores bajo la custodia de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) el domingo, frente a los 5.495 niños
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More than two months into his presidency, President Joe Biden has yet to name someone to lead an agency at the forefront of the coronavirus fight: the US Food and Drug Administration. Although two candidates have been in the running for the top job for months, Biden has ultimately settled on neither, leaving the agency
Continue Reading While the Perseverance rover is testing out its wheels in Jezero Crater before truly beginning its journey on Mars, the Curiosity rover has been busy snapping selfies of an intriguing rock formation. Perseverance, which landed on February 18, is preparing the Ingenuity helicopter for its first flights on Mars in April. Until Perseverance arrived, Curiosity
Continue Reading Officer Eric Talley was remembered for his love of family and his bravery at a public funeral in Lafayette, Colorado, on Tuesday — one week after giving his life as the first police officer to arrive at the King Soopers store where a gunman killed him and nine others. “This is part of that bravery,
Continue ReadingNursing home residents on Medicaid have some more time to spend their stimulus checks, but they shouldn’t wait too long. Typically, Medicaid enrollees are only allowed to have a limited amount of assets, outside of their primary residence, car and other essentials. For single people, it’s usually around $2,000. Those who exceed that threshold could
Continue Reading Airport authorities in the Galapagos Islands seized 185 newborn tortoises that were found wrapped in plastic in a red suitcase. Officials discovered the tortoise hatchlings on Sunday when they X-rayed the suitcase, which was bound for the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, according to a statement from the Galapagos Ecological Airport. Galapagos giant tortoises are
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Border Patrol agents say smugglers are under the false assumption they can disguise drugs within the food to throw off their canines, but that’s not the case.
Continue Reading (CNN) — No hay nada como pasar una tarde lluviosa en un museo, sumergirse en la belleza y la maravilla del arte y la historia. Ahora el Louvre, el museo más visitado del mundo, te permite hacerlo desde casa. El museo francés ha lanzado una plataforma en línea con todas las obras de arte del
Continue Reading Earth isn’t the only planet that experiences a changing of the seasons. The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the colorful transition from summer to fall in Saturn’s northern hemisphere — a change years in the making. Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in our solar system, takes about 29 Earth
Continue Reading An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won’t be wreaking any havoc on Earth — at least not this century. That’s the good news from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, released on Friday. Asteroid 99942 Apophis has been considered one of the most hazardous asteroids with the potential to impact
Continue ReadingThe Democratic National Committee on Tuesday announced it will review the 2020 presidential nomination process, setting the stage for changes on how the party will choose who is at the top of the ticket in 2024. The evaluation, to be conducted by the members of the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, will focus on reforms
Continue Reading Astronomers have a new, more complete picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth — the first black hole ever to be imaged. While the first image of this black hole and its shadow was released in 2019, the new image released Wednesday shows the cosmic
Continue Reading Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling out regulators after little-known hedge fund Archegos Capital Management was able to borrow so much money that its implosion last week sent shockwaves across Wall Street. “Regulators need to rely on more than luck to fend off risks to the financial system,” Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said in a
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