Last updated: April 25, 2024 13:30 EDT | 1 min read Andreessen Horowitz CTO Eddy Lazzarin likened meme coins to ‘Risky Casinos’ on April 25, arguing that they deterred genuine builders from the crypto ecosystem due to the high risk involved.Lazzarin posted to X, stating that meme coins hinder the long-term vision of cryptocurrency, which has kept many of the original builders in the space. Interest in memecoins will come and go, and I’m optimistic that real products/protocols will develop in the end. But we shouldn’t pretend that the casino doesn’t set us back. Deterring great founders and giving ammo…

A woman who grew up terrified of the ocean is now a professional mermaid — making thousands of dollars in a short period of time.  Elle Jimenez is a 34-year-old mermaid originally from Puerto Rico. She now lives in Miami, Florida, and performs a mermaid act for a living — telling Fox News Digital she can earn up to $10,000 an hour for some events. She claims to be the “busiest professional mermaid entertainer in the world — sometimes with triple bookings in a day.” THREE MERMAIDS IN CALIFORNIA SAVE SCUBA DIVER FROM DROWNING: ‘NOT JUST PRETTY TAILS AND SMILES’ After overcoming a…

New York    Southwest Airlines announced Thursday it will stop serving four airports after reporting increased losses in the first quarter and more delays in the delivery of promised jets from Boeing. The four airports are Bellingham International Airport in Washington state, Cozumel International Airport in Mexico, Syracuse Hancock International Airport in New York and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Southwest will continue to serve Houston’s other airport. “The recent news from Boeing regarding further aircraft delivery delays presents significant challenges for both 2024 and 2025,” said Southwest CEO Bob Jordan in the company’s first-quarter financial results statement. “We are reacting and…

Washington    Home sales based on contract signings unexpectedly jumped in March despite elevated mortgage rates that month. And the latest data from Freddie Mac showed that mortgage rates edged higher this week, reaching a fresh five-month high. Pending home sales a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings rather than closings climbed 3.4% in March, the National Association of Realtors reported Thursday, which was “the best performance in a year,” according to a release. That was well above the 0.3% decline forecast by economists, according to a FactSet poll. Contract signings rose across the country in March from the prior…

The crypto market is primed for a bull run, and investors can’t be more anxious. Especially given how much bullish anticipation surrounded the Bitcoin halving.Now that the Bitcoin halving has been completed, crypto coins are slowly picking up their paces as activities start heating up.One of the coins that’s been popping up in crypto conversations is the Bitgert Coin (BRISE). Bitgert Coin caught the eye in the last bull run in March and sustained its momentum even when other altcoins surrendered to the bearish wave.We’ll take a look at the Bitgert Coin (BRISE) to find out why there’s a lot…

Autopsy and toxicology reports are complete for three Kansas City Chiefs fans found mysteriously dead in their friend’s snowy backyard earlier this year – but their results have been suppressed in light of an ongoing investigation. Harrington, 37, Clayton McGeeney, 36, and Ricky Johnson, 38, were discovered frozen and dead behind their longtime friend Jordan Willis’ home on Jan. 9, two days after they were all last seen alive inside the house watching the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers. A representative from Frontier Forensics Midwest LLC told Fox News Digital that their autopsies and toxicology reports had been completed in “late…

Meta Platforms has been increasingly pursuing artificial intelligence and, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, generating significant revenue from it will take a while. Speaking on the first-quarter earnings call Wednesday evening, Zuckerberg said the corporate parent of Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Threads would invest “significantly more” to support and help grow its AI development efforts. “As we’re scaling CapEx and energy expenses for AI, we’ll continue focusing on operating the rest of our company efficiently, but realistically, even with shifting many of our existing resources to focus on AI, we’ll still grow our investment envelope meaningfully before we make much revenue…

DETROIT — Jayden Daniels handled the media with the same poise and command he displays in the pocket.Asked a few times about speculation that he doesn’t want to play for Washington and whether he prefers going to another team, Daniels understandably took a diplomatic approach one day before the NFL draft.”I’m blessed to go wherever I’m called,” Daniels said Wednesday. “Whoever calls my phone, whoever gives the card to the Commissioner that says my name, I’m blessed to go and they’re gonna get my all.”Watch the 2024 NFL Draft on and ESPN April 25-27.Pressed further about the Commanders and asked…

   Despite a weaker-than-expected first-quarter GDP reading, the US economy is “firing on all cylinders” and inflation is on a path toward a more normal level, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday in an interview with Reuters. Yellen on Thursday was interviewed by Reuters’ editor in chief Alessandra Galloni as part of the news organization’s NEXT Newsmakers series. “The economy is clearly performing very well,” Yellen said. “I certainly don’t see it as overheated.” Earlier on Thursday, the Commerce Department reported that the US economy grew by an annualized rate of 1.6% during the first quarter. The GDP reading…

Jonathan Bailey, who will be playing the character of Fiyero in the two-part film adaptation of Wicked, has joined the third season of the Netflix series Heartstopper.According to Deadline, Alice Oseman, the creator and writer of the series has said that Bailey will be “making a cameo appearance as Jack Maddox, an Instagram-famous classicist and celebrity crush of Charlie.” The announcement also came with a brief behind-the-scenes look at Bailey in costume.According to a synopsis, in Season 3 Charlie would like to tell Nick that he loves him. Nick also has something important to say to Charlie. As the summer holiday…

Since January, Dr. Stacy Seyb, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Boise, Idaho, has had at least four of his patients wheeled onto emergency flights and airlifted out of the state while experiencing severe pregnancy complications.One of them was a woman whose water broke around 20 weeks into her pregnancy, putting her at risk of infection. In these types of emergencies, ending the patient’s pregnancy can be part of the standard of care. But doctors at the hospital where Seyb works say they have been forced to transfer patients who have these complications out of state to comply with the state’s…

 The BEFE coin is gradually becoming the most talked about meme coin project in the crypto market right now. Especially now being a time when small crypto projects are in high demand from investors looking to secure a future profit. BEFE coin’s rise to glory lately has been driven primarily by the potential it has been showing as the meme coin to give investors bigger profits. Although It has been living up to the hype in the last 6 weeks, most investors are still confused about what’s driving the BEFE coin price. However, most of this confusion is just to…

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While the official opening date of the Frederick Anderson boutique is still days away, his clients are already beating a path to its door. Like Malini Murjani, a designer and consultant, who has dropped by for a second fitting for a dress she plans to wear to her birthday party in Phuket in November: a sliver of golden satin-backed crepe with the effervescence of champagne, its deep décolleté formed from drapes falling from a halter neckline. Anderson and Murjani met, ooh, they can’t exactly recall where or when, but it feels like forever. What they do remember: the clothes of…

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