Putin finally admits Russia’s economy is in trouble and grasps for answers, after warnings about a financial crisis have been piling up

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his concerns about the economy to aides and asked them to come up with solutions. At a televised economic conference on Wednesday, he revealed that GDP shrank by 1.8% in January and February combined, adding that manufacturing, industrial production and construction all experienced negative growth. “I expect to hear today…

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Ethereum news (ETH): co-founder Joseph Lubin warns of the dangers of AI being controlled by a few big tech firms

The next major inflection point for cryptocurrencies comes from artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to Joseph Lubin, CEO of Consensys and co-founder of Ethereum. He told CoinDesk that autonomous or semi-autonomous agents can transact, coordinate and verify each other on a decentralized network, using cryptographic rails as the basis for machine-driven activity. Lubin, who…

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ABC News faces backlash for presenting Obama campaign ad as an ‘exclusive’ on redistricting measure

Social media users on “Why on earth would a major news network consider an extremely partisan campaign ad an ‘exclusive’?” asked RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway. This comes after ABC News labeled an exclusively obtained clip from a campaign ad by Obama urging Virginians to vote “yes” on a redistricting measure. If the measure is…

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