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NFL player ‘paid in Bitcoin’ as price nears $30,000

Carolina Panthers offensive tackle Russell Okung boasted on Tuesday that he is now receiving half of his $13 million NFL salary in Bitcoin. The arrangement involves Okung using a startup that converts payroll direct deposits into cryptocurrency and comes as Bitcoin shatters new price records. Okung used Twitter to declare he was being “paid in […]

Behind the scenes of the annual new emoji selections

Jennifer Daniel chairs the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee, which decides which new emojis to add every year. Read More

A Ukrainian VC with employees in Russia surveys the damage of Putin’s war

After his hometown was destroyed, Mark Pavlyukovskyy is rethinking Eastern European politics and trying to keep his family and employees safe. Read More