Author: kumbhorg

Trying to secure her “dream job” with a fashion company, Taya Reed was highly aware she had to make a good first impression in the interviews. And how she dressed was going to be a key component.A London-based science graduate from two top universities in the UK capital, the 23-year-old had applied for a marketing job at a womenswear brand. She had done her homework, and devised a promotional campaign for the business.But Reed also put a great deal of thought into what she would wear for the interviews, the first online and another in person.”I find outfits can be…

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Lawmakers are hoping to push through the crypto market structure bill this week but the Democrats are holding things back, according to Senator Dave McCormick. Speaking to Fox Business on Friday, the Republican senator said that a vote needs to happen now.  “The Democrats are starting to think, ‘We don’t want to give it a win,’” said McCormick.  Writing on X today, he added: “The time for delay is over. Bring the Clarity Act to the Senate Floor for a vote and let every senator go on the record. America needs clear rules that protect consumers and keep digital asset…

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Josh Widdicombe, Emma Willis and Johannes Radebe will take over as Strictly presenters this year, following the departures of Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.The first line-up announcements were made significantly earlier than usual – the BBC usually confirms the line-up in August. Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain in June, Ballas said: “There are going to be some people on there that will make you go ‘wow’.”Asked about the new presenting trio, Ballas said she was “very excited to see what they bring” to the show. “I know they took lots of chemistry tests, as did everybody, and those chemistry…

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By Sally Rufus, updated July 28, 2026 Choosing an exchange these days feels less like picking a broker and more like planning a route through a city with no central map. Back when Bitcoin was the only game in town, you just needed a platform that didn’t collapse under pressure. Now your portfolio might hold ETH on mainnet, SOL in a Phantom wallet, USDC on Arbitrum because that’s where the yield made sense, and maybe some MATIC you forgot about. How Crypto Exchanges Are Competing in 2026 Moving between these is rarely a single click. You check the bridge. You…

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File Pic: Manjot Kalra (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India Under-19 World Cup-winning star Manjot Kalra will remain in custody in Sri Lanka after a Colombo court rejected his plea for early bail in connection with an alleged match-fixing case linked to the ongoing Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2026.Kalra, who shot to fame with his match-winning century in the 2018 Under-19 World Cup final, and fellow Indian national Yuvraj Pushpa had approached the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court seeking relief after being remanded until July 31 following their arrests earlier this month. However, Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama dismissed the application,…

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The Centre has maintained that IIT graduates pursuing education or careers abroad do so by personal choice, shaped by academic, financial and professional factors. However, its failure to disclose migration figures in Parliament has intensified the debate over India’s ability to retain its brightest talent and whether stronger research, innovation and career opportunities are needed at home. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is more than just an institution; its corridors echo with the footsteps of generations of the country’s brightest and hardest-working minds. But what does an IITian dream of after earning one of India’s most prestigious degrees? Is…

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In crypto news today (July 28), Bitcoin has dropped nearly -3% overnight, losing $65,000 and looking likely to retest $60,000 ahead of today’s FOMC meeting. Liquidations have picked up as a result, with over $600M in positions blown up since yesterday, and unsurprisingly, more than $530M of that figure has come from long trades. Yesterday saw a second consecutive day of positive ETF flows for Bitcoin, a metric that is helping the market in its recent rally. Over $265M BTC was bought via ETFs yesterday, with over $200M of that figure coming from BlackRock’s IBIT after selling nearly $10Bn over…

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One of my favorite Bri­an Eno quotes, or rather one that became an Oblique Strat­e­gy, is “Hon­or Your Mis­take as a Hid­den Inten­tion.” (Or to be pedan­tic, the orig­i­nal ver­sion was “Hon­or Thy Error…”). As a teenag­er grow­ing up and try­ing to make art (at that time music and comics) there was no advice more free­ing. It was the oppo­site of what I thought I knew: mis­takes were shame­ful, the sign of an ama­teur or of the lack of prac­tice. But the more art I made, the more I ref­er­enced Eno’s idea, and the more I read and lis­tened, the…

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A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the source, but noted that large language models appeared to be involved. The following week, OpenAI ​admitted​ that the breach was the result of an AI system test that went awry. The initial news coverage created the sense that something unnerving had just occurred: ​The Wall Street Journal​ called it “the stuff of cybersecurity nightmares.” ​The Hill​ said, “Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its…

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