BTC holds near year’s low as precious metals continue garnering attention
Bitcoin BTC$88,326.08 remained stuck in limbo at around $88,000 on Monday as gold and silver extended their blistering rallies before paring gains. BTC is up a bit from what’s now becoming a renewed pattern of panicky weekend selling, but down from around the $90,000 late Friday. Rising odds of a government shutdown on Jan. 31…
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has raised $42 million in Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, it announced on Tuesday. Generative AI models can be used in the design process via prompts and other multimodal inputs….
UCLA’s Bob Chesney: Coal miner, bartender and now Bruins coach
LOS ANGELES — New UCLA football coach Bob Chesney has mined coal in his hometown, slung Red Bull and vodkas behind a Baltimore bar, and worked every on-field job from strength coach to special teams coach. Chesney arrives in Westwood in the wake of a program in spiral after DeShaun Foster’s coaching tenure lasted just…
Paul Feig on channeling Hitchcock for ‘The Housemaid’ — Interview
(Editor’s note: This interview contains spoilers for “The Housemaid.”) One of the most delightful surprises of the holiday movie season last year was director Paul Feig‘s “The Housemaid,” a thrill ride based on the novel by Freida McFadden about a housekeeper (Sydney Sweeney) who gets more than she bargained for when she takes a live-in…
Rebuffed Burnham can return to honing his stature and attack lines | Andy Burnham
With his return to Westminster seemingly blocked, on Monday Andy Burnham will get back to the two roles to which he has devoted his time in recent years: being mayor of Greater Manchester and annoying Keir Starmer. The second is very much a part-time and unofficial role, but it is noticeable how Burnham manages to…
Gold tops $5,000 as BTC stalls near $87,000 in widening macro-crypto split: Asia Morning Briefing
Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas. Gold’s breakout above $5,000 is beginning to look less like a spike…
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo’s sweeping layoffs
Vimeo was hit by a massive round of layoffs this past week, according to a report by Business Insider. Staffers posting on various social media sites that the layoffs impacted most of the company, including the entire video team. Vimeo is a video-hosting platform, so that sounds bad. The layoffs are the latest restructuring by…
Super Bowl LX: Odds, trends, past winners and MVPs
Odds and trends for Super Bowl LX, plus the updated spread, line, total and FPI projection for the big game. Source link
Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard in Bawdy Tale
A kooky sex-crazed folk tale in search of a larger purpose beyond its whimsical premise, Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s “Wicker” stars Olivia Colman as a prickly fisherwoman who emerges from the fringes of a seaside village to task a basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) with weaving her a husband. That husband is played by a…
As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
The temptation is strong to hope that the storm has passed. To believe that a week that began with a US threat to seize a European territory, whether by force or extortion, has ended with the promise of negotiation and therefore a return to normality. But that is a dangerous delusion. There can be no…