Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images Tokenizing real-world assets on a blockchain is one of the buzziest topics of the year, and this time it isn’t just coming from financial incumbents like Citi, JPMorgan and Northern Trust, it’s coming from crypto native players, too. The initial hype around tokenization using blockchains began around 2015
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Matt Johnson, 38, an HVAC technician with ReVision Energy, a New England company specializing in solar energy and electric heat pump installations, works on removing all moisture from the line set of an newly installed electric heat pump on a home in Windham, Maine on Thursday, January 19, 2023. Improved energy efficiency with heat pump
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It’s been claimed that a Russian pilot deliberately tried to shoot down a RAF spy plane last year, believing he had been given permission to fire. Russia blamed a “technical malfunction” for the incident over the Black Sea. But intercepted communications reportedly suggest the pilot fired after receiving an ambiguous command from a Russian ground
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Rishi Sunak is considering a recommendation that would effectively ban cigarettes for the next generation. The prime minister could introduce some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures by steadily increasing the legal age for consuming tobacco, according to The Guardian, citing Whitehall sources. The paper said it also understood Mr Sunak’s leadership pledge to fine
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A man was taken to hospital after being bitten by a dog – believed to be an XL bully – just hours before demonstrators gathered in London today to protest against a proposed ban. The victim, who is in his 40s, was attacked in Pasley Park in Southwark, southeast London, on Friday. He suffered injuries
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D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Sep 22, 2023, 09:42 AM ET It began with almost no fanfare. Before play got underway at the spectator-less, pandemic-restricted 2020 US Open, No. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic and fellow ATP player Vasek Pospisil announced the creation of the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA), first with a letter to their ATP peers, and
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Gender fluidity and climate change are not the hot-button topics you’d expect from an author writing more than 400 years ago. But it’s Shakespeare‘s “contemporary” outlook that means he will “last a great deal longer than the culture wars,” according to Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) artistic director emeritus Gregory Doran. While parts of the Bard’s
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