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Lebanese-American essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘The NFT thingy is starting to burst,’ warns guru whose ‘Black Swan’ theory foresaw 2007 financial crisis

Concept of second wave coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Vector illustration of doctor in rubber ring holding vaccine and tall wave of coronavirus

The COVID wave America doesn’t care about: ‘Everybody is sick of COVID’

BANGKOK, THAILAND – MARCH 08: A visitor looks at paintings that can be purchased as an NFT after scanning a QR code at the TDAF 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand on March 08, 2022.Thailand Digital Art Festival 2022 mark the first digital art debut in Thailand and Asia and also the largest digital art (NFTs) showcase featuring more than 1300 art pieces from 130 Thai artists. For this very first TDAF edition, artists were displaying physical sculptures, photos, painting of their art, which could only be purchased through an app after scanning a QR code displayed next to it. A non-fungible token or most commonly known as NFT is a non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a “blockchain”, that can be sold and traded with other users.

The hottest 5 pieces of NFT art this week | A digital animator made bank thanks to a Grammy-nominated rapper in disguise

A person shops at a supermarket in Moscow on April 6, 2022. – Russia said on April 6 it had been forced to make foreign debt payments on dollar-denominated bonds in rubles, in a new blow to its efforts to avoid a sovereign default amid unprecedented Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia could soon default on external loans for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution

LA LIBERTAD, EL SALVADOR – JUNE 16: A woman holds up a phone displaying a bitcoin wallet app on June 16, 2021 in Chiltuipan, El Salvador. Playa El Zonte has been named as the Bitcoins capital, around 500 families promote the use of the cryptocurrency to help the economy of a place with poverty issues. (Photo by Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

More women investing in crypto, new report says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured as he attends the start of the production at Tesla’s “Gigafactory” on March 22, 2022 in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin. – US electric car pioneer Tesla received the go-ahead for its “gigafactory” in Germany on March 4, 2022, paving the way for production to begin shortly after an approval process dogged by delays and setbacks. (Photo by Patrick Pleul / POOL / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Is Twitter dying?’ Elon Musk questions social media platform he bought a stake in

Anthony Fauci

A new COVID wave is probably coming, and America just doesn’t seem to care

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 27: Will Smith appears to slap Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Arts & Entertainment

Can Will Smith’s career survive the Oscars slap? Some of his projects are reportedly now on hold

Mike Tilberry, owner of All In Coaching, center, leads a workout remotely at home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S., on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.

The pandemic migration’s full impact is becoming clear—and it’s a ‘big deal’ for the future of cities and white-collar work

By Erin Prater and Nick Lichtenberg

TOPSHOT – Dr. James Samuel Pope treats a patient who is suffering from the effects of Covid-19 in the ICU at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on January 18, 2022. According to Pope the patient is unvaccinated. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Cardiac complications after COVID infection or vaccination are rare but possible, the CDC says—but they’re much more likely after infection

Founder and CEO of US online social media and social networking service Facebook Mark Zuckerberg reacts upon his arrival for a meeting with European Commission vice-president in charge for Values and Transparency, in Brussels, on February 17, 2020. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)

Meta no longer requiring employees to receive COVID booster shot to enter U.S. offices

An Iranian mother sits next to her 9-year-old son who is infected by COVID-19, at a COVID-19 ward in a children hospital in the holy city of Qom 145Km (90 miles) south of Tehran amid the Omicron variant outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iran, March 10, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Seizures, croup, and mechanical ventilation: New study shows how severe Omicron can get in unvaccinated children

A man looks at digital paintings by US artist Beeple at a crypto art exhibition entitled Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror?, one of the world’s first physical museum shows of blockchain art, ahead of its opening in Beijing on March 26, 2021. – RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

The billionaire founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, thinks the NFT craze is bonkers: ‘People may have lost their mind’

By Erin Prater and Vivienne Walt

A healthcare worker.

‘Brain on fire,’ ear numbness, hallucinations: Just what are the symptoms of ‘Long COVID’?

GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – MARCH 22: (Alternate crop of #1239417601) Tesla CEO Elon Musk contemplates during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. The new plant, officially called the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, is producing the Model Y as well as electric car batteries. (Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images)

Elon Musk says he’s probably not the richest man in the world: ‘Putin is significantly richer than me’

By Erin Prater and Mahnoor Khan