economy
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Someone Turned the macOS Folder Icon Into a Real-Life Wallet
If you’re using a Mac, take a quick peek at your desktop. It’s probably filled with lots of confusingly labelled folders full of random files as a result of a half-hearted attempt to organise your digital life. You can now add one more unlabelled blue folder to the chaos, except this one slips into your…
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Vanity License Plate Sold at Auction for World Record $15 Million in Dubai
A wealthy anonymous bidder paid 55 million Emirati dirhams, roughly $21 million, for a licence plate at an auction in Dubai. The world record amount was spent for Dubai’s “P 7” licence plate, breaking the previous record by over $US750,000 (a little over $1 million in Aussie terms). Absurdly low licence plate numbers have long…
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Binance Sees Surge of Withdrawals After CFTC Lawsuit
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, just can’t catch a break. With one arm, the exchange is trying to slap away the grabbing hands of lawmakers and regulators. With Binance’s other arm, it beckons to its customers and investors, pleading with them to keep on putting their crypto in its care, despite…
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U.S. FTC Wants to End the Hell That Is Trying to Cancel a Free Trial or Subscription
The Federal Trade Commission is looking to do away with hard to cancel subscriptions — aren’t we all? A new proposal from the FTC would require merchants to make it easier for consumers to remove themselves from so-called free trials or recurring subscriptions with an updated policy the commission refers to as “click to cancel.”