WASHINGTON (AP) — Reported sexual assaults at the U.S.military academies increased sharply during the 2020-21 school year, as students returned to in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic, according to several U.S.officials familiar with the reports. The increase continues what officials believe is an upward trend at the academies, despite an influx of new sexual assault…
Lenders pushed “predatory” puppy loans at pet stores across the U.S., group says
Consumer and animal welfare advocates are decrying high-cost loans they say are being offered at pet stores across the U.S.to help people buy puppies. Ogden, Utah-based Transportation Alliance Bank, or TAB Bank, is helping a lending business called EasyPay Finance bypass state interest rate caps and make pet loans with annual interest charges of between…
Hiltzik: The abused consumers of America, and how to help them – Los Angeles Times
Raise your hand if something like this has happened to you: — You booked a hotel room, and discovered when you checked in — or checked out — that the hotel added an undisclosed daily “resort fee” to your bill, for services you never would or did use. — You spent hours on the phone…
Tennessee bill would designate some gun owners as law enforcement – ABC News
Tennessee bill would designate some gun owners as law enforcement The legislation “expands the definition of law enforcement officer,” it states. By Ivan Pereira February 17, 2022, 5:29 PM • 12 11:16 Gun violence: An American epidemic? Using research and statistics, experts examine America’s history with guns, the real-life impacts of gun violence and what…
Black women lead in starting businesses, but struggle to get funding
Black women are more likely to start their own businesses than other women , but they face steep obstacles when it comes to funding their entrepreneurial ventures. The median seed round for Black women entrepreneurs in 2020 was $125,000, according to ProjectDiane , far less than the $2.5 million for the national median.During the pandemic,…
Pavia – a new virtual world from Cardano
Best New Crypto Coins Unlike other cryptos at the time, Cardano used the proof-of-stake model.It works like a savings account where you set aside some coins to earn more in the long run. That way, people wouldn’t have to use so much electricity to mine the coins.What’s more, Cardano has several nifty features, such as:…
Blockchain Devs at Qtum Explain How they Achieve High Scalability Without Sacrificing Decentralization
Scalability has been the “hottest topic” in the crypto space during the past few years, the team at Qtum notes in a recent update. Qtum ‘s developers write in a blog post that they have seen several projects “adopt a centralized stance just to speed up their overall throughput.” The developers question whether this is…
QTUM price prediction: will the coin rise following its halving?
Ever since QTUM , the native cryptocurrency of the Quantum network, was halved on 1 December the price of the coin itself has more than halved. Today the price is $5.85 and that is up more than 6% but on halving day it was worth around $15. Halving is a deflationary process to control how…
SingularityNET (AGIX) price prediction: Is it a buy, hold or sell?
The price for the SingularityNET cryptocurrency token AGIX has declined since the start of the year, having been in a downward trend following a spike in September 2021. SingularityNET aims to enable interoperable artificial intelligence (AI), which is expected to play a key role in digital transformation across industries. What is the SingularityNET platform and…
DAOs Can Make Transactions More Trustworthy | Nasdaq
By Dan Edlebeck, Co-Founder of Exidio and the Sentinel dVPN Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs as they are known in the crypto world, have something of an undeserved reputation.While it is undeniably true that hackers managed to exploit the technology in 2016 to access millions of dollars’ worth of Ethereum, that does not mean that…