Authorities in Cambodia have formally warned domestic investors that they risk incurring penalties for buying, selling, or trading cryptocurrencies without getting a license first. “Any person or legal entity that propagates to mobilize funds, buys, sells, trades or settles Crypto Currencies without obtaining license from competent authorities shall be penalized in accordance with applicable laws,” […]

The very best of 2018, from Black Panther rewriting the rules for superheroes, Gary Oldman going to war as Churchill, and Maxine Peake blazing her way through 70s sexism. All the Money in the World Raucous thriller about the real-life 1973 kidnapping of J Paul Getty’s grandson, and the billionaire’s subsequent refusal to pay the […]

George Clooney and John Legend have sent hefty donations to charity and Bruce Springsteen interrupted his Broadway show to decry the border crisis as the entertainment world voiced outrage over the separation of migrant families at the US border. Clooney and his lawyer wife Amal said that they were donating $100,000 to the Young Center […]

Electric cars are the talk of the town as they are undoubtedly the future of automotive industry. Governments across the world are in favor of these low-emission vehicles to save their environments while brands from Maserati to Mazda are either planning to get their electric cars built or have already built them. But these cars […]

WASHINGTON  – President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe by imposing a 20 percent tariff on all U.S. imports of European Union-assembled cars, a month after the administration launched an investigation into whether auto imports pose a national security threat. “If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken […]

Despite the best efforts of zcash developers to keep the cryptocurrency’s coming upgrade, Overwinter, as seamless as possible, the $800 million network was faced with a plot-twist this week. Mere days before the update (a hard fork of the code) was set to execute – a developer decided to effectively threaten to split the network – if he […]

A blockchain-based application that helps sports fans receive “reliable and transparent” betting advice has launched its main platform – only a couple of days after the football World Cup kicked off in Russia. BlitzPredict aims to provide innovative solutions to the issues that have plagued the betting industry in recent years by recording predictions on […]

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has announced a major Blockchain Technology Development Strategy that aims to raise 230 bln won (~$207 mln) by 2022, The News Asia reportstoday, June 21. According to the Ministry’s official announcement, the new initiative will foster 10,000 blockchainindustry professionals and 100 companies, and will expand and commercialize six existing blockchain pilots with the […]

Almost 17 years after the tragic death of R&B songstress Aaliyah, she’s the inspiration for a new makeup line. Makeup giant MAC heard the calls of 26,000 people who signed a petition started by super-fan Jennifer Risinger. The online campaign by Aaliyah fans followed the success of another fan-driven capsule collection inspired by the late beloved Tejano […]

Chalk up another win for Einstein’s seemingly invincible theory of gravity. A new study shows that the theory of general relativity holds true even over vast distances. General relativity prevailed within a region spanning a galactic distance of about 6,500 light-years, scientists report in the June 22 Science. Previously, researchers have precisely tested the theory by studying its […]