Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and its Chief Executive Elon Musk are under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over public statements about taking the electric carmaker private, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while DoJ declined to comment. Federal prosecutors opened a fraud investigation, the report […]

“We regard the provocative actions of Israel as hostile,” Moscow’s Defense Ministry said. LONDON — Moscow accused Israel of “hostile” behavior and threatened retaliation Tuesday after Syria shot down a Russian military aircraft with 15 people on board over the Mediterranean Sea. Russia is an ally of both Syria and Israel. The TASS news agency reported that […]

“Even though the heavy rains have ended, the flood hazard to life and property is real,” city officials said. Rain-swollen rivers won’t stop rising in North Carolina. Several of them teetered at record levels Tuesday as officials warned of relentless flooding and hazards in areas already swamped by historic rainfall produced by former Hurricane Florence. The storm […]

The University System of Georgia (USG) announced the launch of a state-wide fintech academy on on Sept. 11. It is the largest education effort of its kind in the United States. While individual universities have offered blockchain courses, such as Stanford and NYU, Georgia is opening the program to all current students across all colleges in the state’s public university […]

Dubai Police currently investigating a Dh 300 million ($81.7 million) international fraud case have issued a warning about the potential role of digital assets in terms of facilitating crime in the UAE. Speaking at a forum on Sunday September 16, Major-General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, assistant-commander of criminal investigation department (CID) at the Dubai Police warned […]

A pay-as-you-throw bag-tag rubbish program could be revisited after it was rejected first in 2009 and again in 2015. The Solid Waste Advisory Committee, a group convened every decade to update the county’s Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan, is again recommending a program where people would have to purchase tags or stickers to throw away […]

The drenching rains and massive flooding caused by Florence are expected to inflict a high financial toll on homeowners in North Carolina and other states, as only a small percentage are covered by flood insurance that could help offset the costs of rebuilding their damaged homes. An estimated quarter of a million homes in North Carolina are projected […]

Although the torrential rain from Florence may be coming to an end in the Carolinas, the slow-motion disaster of river flooding will continue to wreak havoc across the region for days – or potentially weeks. It may take up to two weeks for all of the runoff from the storm, which has killed at least 32 people, […]

Especially during turbulent times, stablecoins are becoming a very important part of the overall crypto asset ecosystem. While the prices of tokens on exchanges have a tendency to fluctuate wildly (and often in a highly correlated manner), stablecoins are designed to keep a steady store of value, allowing crypto traders and investors to mitigate risk […]

By Alex Mardikian Digital Signage is versatile. If you wish to create an impression on visitors to your property, then install digital signage in the lobby. As we shall see, you can accomplish multiple objective by doing this. With time, you will save money and also convey messages easily as compared to regular, analog signage […]