Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, US, May 4, 2022. Mike Blake | ReutersThe CEO of blockchain startup Ripple sees the combined market cap of the cryptocurrency market exceeding $5 trillion this year.Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse told CNBC that he expects the entire value of the cryptocurrency market to double, citing macro factors including the arrival of the first bitcoin spot trading funds (ETFs) in the United States, as well as the upcoming so-called “halving” of bitcoin. “”I've been in this industry for a long time, and I've seen these…
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Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.The US Federal Aviation Administration said it will investigate a new mishap involving a Boeing plane, after a piece of the engine cover fell off a Southwest Airlines plane on Sunday morning.Footage posted on social media appears to show the 737-800 rolling down the runway at Denver International Airport as the right engine cover begins to disintegrate. “The crew reported the engine cowling fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap,” the FAA said, adding that the plane returned safely and…
Crystal Lake Recreation Area, a camping destination in the San Gabriel Mountains, will be closed April 9-14 while trees are sprayed with an insecticide to protect them from the western pine beetle, forest officials announced Sunday.Crews plan to spray ponderosa, Jeffrey/ponderosa hybrids and Coulter pine with bifenthrin, officials said. Officials said trees will be sprayed from the base up to 45 feet high. Pine beetle infestation has increased significantly with climate change. The insects thrive in warm conditions, resulting in greater tree damage. An infestation can kill up to 200 trees at a time.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 arrives at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on January 20, 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesThe engine cowl fell off Southwest Airlines Boeing The Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday that the plane was a 737-800 and struck a wing flap while taking off from Denver International Airport.The Federal Aviation Administration said Southwest Flight 3695 was en route to William P. Hobby Airport in Houston and returned safely to the gate in Denver at 8:15 a.m. local time. Southwest said customers on the flight were transferred to a different plane and…
Welcome back To TechCrunch Mobility — Your central hub for news and insights about the future of transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Automakers reported first-quarter auto sales, and it turns out that pricing definitely matters if you want to sell electric vehicles. Who would have thought? A recent survey by Edmunds came to a similar conclusion (at least for American buyers), finding a significant gap between what consumers want and what is actually available on the market. Here is the crux of the…
A man has died and three other people were hospitalized after a fentanyl overdose in Lakewood, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.At about 1 a.m. Sunday, first responders were dispatched to a home in the 6600 block of Dillman Street after receiving a call that four people had stopped breathing due to a possible overdose of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that can cause respiratory failure, according to the report. The authorities reported.A man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Sheriff's Department. Three other adults were taken to hospital and their condition remains unclear. Authorities…
Food inflation in rich countries has fallen to its lowest level since before Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, with a slowdown in price growth easing pressure on millions of families hit by two years of rising food costs.The annual change in consumer food prices across 38 industrialized countries fell to 5.3 percent in February, down from 6.2 percent the previous month and well below the peak of 16.2 percent in November 2022, according to the latest OECD data.Food prices rose in 2022 due to higher energy costs and lower trade due to the war in Ukraine, while larger-than-expected droughts and…
Burlington, Vermont – A man was charged Sunday with starting a fire outside U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' office in Vermont, federal prosecutors said.Chant Sogomonyan, 35, who formerly worked at Northridge, entered the building on Friday and went to Sanders' third-floor office, where security video showed him spraying a liquid on the door and setting it on fire, officials said.The interior of the building suffered some damage as a result of the fire and sprinklers that flooded the area with water, but no one was hurt. Sanders, an independent, was not in office at the time.Sogomonyan was arrested Sunday on suspicion…
Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Ecuador is facing a wave of condemnations over a late-night raid on the Mexican embassy in its capital Quito, which saw the Andean nation's former vice president arrested and sparked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.The United States, the European Union and a group of Latin American countries joined the growing chorus of criticism directed at Ecuador over Friday's raid, an act previously unheard of even in military dictatorships.The Foreign Ministry in Madrid described the move as a “violation” of the…
The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches. Mechanical keyboards quickly went from niche product to mainstream during the pandemic, as everyone looked to upgrade their home offices — and maybe pick up a new hobby, too. Brands like Akko, Drop, Ducky, Epomaker and Keychron have become household names and today's enthusiasts can choose from dozens of different layouts and purchase parts from even more vendors. Since then, things have gotten a bit stale — even as high-end features have migrated to budget keyboards. RGB lighting has long been standard, with the likes of Angry Miao and others…