The Supreme Court will not revive President Biden's student debt relief program. New footage of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to the attack on the Capitol on January 6th has emerged. A Nevada jury found a former Las Vegas-area politician guilty of murder in the killing of a journalist. CBS News Correspondent Linda Kenyon with tonight's World News Roundup.
Earlier this month, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and the former head of Google, Eric Schmidt, wrote a piece for Foreign Affairs arguing that the future of warfare is here. They say that the U.S. is not ready for it.
The two authors argue recent technological developments have changed warfare more in the past several years than the decades spanning from the introduction of the airplane, radio, and mechanization to the battlefield. And while this new tech has only been shown in small snippets in current conflicts, it is only the beginning.
So, can the U.S. catch up? And what will this warfare look like?
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On Wednesday Israel launched raids into the Occupied West Bank, they say to root out Hamas militants and prevent another attack like the one that occurred on October 7th. We hear the latest on those raids.
And Israelis who believe the West Bank should be Israeli territory have significantly increased settlement activity since the war in Gaza started. Our correspondent visits some of the outposts.
Faced with stagnating economic growth, Chinese leader Xi Jinping decided to go all in on manufacturing and exporting. But, as Lingling Wei reports, the increase in low-cost Chinese goods is squeezing businesses around the world and raising the specter of a new trade war.
The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie.
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CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie discusses the comeback of DeFi summer as Steno Research's new report points to a potential resurgence of decentralized finance.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “Markets Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez, and edited by Victor Chen. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from TON blockchain's outage to Trump's new digital trading card NFT collection.
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as the TON blockchain resumes producing blocks after a nearly six-hour outage caused by a surge in network traffic. Plus, Australians lost $122 million of crypto to investment scams in just 12 months, and Trump is out with another collection of digital trading card NFTs.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.
An El Nino induced drought is intensifying across southern Africa and has left almost 70 million people in urgent need of aid. Countries affected include Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi and Zambia. We hear about the devastating impact it's having on a community in Northern Zimbabwe.
Also the Gambian government wants to make ammendments to the country's constitution..but does it enjoy the support of all its citizens?
And the African athletes going for gold at this year's Paralympics!
Presenter: Audrey Brown
Producers: Yvette Twagiramariya, Nour Abida, Rob Wilson, Joseph Keen and Bella Hassan in London
Techincal Producer: Jonny Hall
Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
The next generation of high-throughput blockchains are on their way. Keone Hon of Monad, Jay Jog of Sei, and Vijay Chetty of Eclipse discuss the ways they’re boosting the number of transactions per second, and the tradeoffs they’re having to make.
In this episode of Unchained, Keone Hon of Monad Labs, Jay Jog of Sei Labs, and Vijay Chetty of Eclipse Labs share insights on their distinct approaches to scalability and performance in high-throughput blockchains. They discuss the technical advantages of parallelized EVMs, the strategic decisions behind blockchain architecture, and the innovations driving the next generation of high-speed chains.
Show highlights:
How Monad got started and its mission from the very beginning
The features that enable Monad to be a high-throughput blockchain
Why Monad chose to make a new blockchain instead of an L2
Why Keone believes that Monad offers the best experience for developers and why he doesn’t like the ‘Ethereum killer’ description
Monad’s big venture capital raise and how they’ll use the money
Monad’s strong community
The next steps for Monad and whether we’ll see a token soon
What Sei is and the role of the GameStop saga in the creation of it
Why Jay believes the EVM developer ecosystem is so strong
Why Sei pivoted from Cosmos to the EVM that led to the launch of its v2
What allows Sei to be “the fastest chain, even faster than Solana”
How Sei DB works, and why Jay says that the monolithic approach has many advantages to the modular one
How Eclipse works by combining Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos
How Eclipse deals with the complexities of its modular architecture
What ways there are to transact in SOL on Eclipse
Vijay’s reaction to how Eclipse Labs has responded to the allegations against its founder and former CEO Neel Somani
How Eclipse aims to attract developers
What areas within crypto Vijay expects will flourish on Eclipse
The next steps for Eclipse and when the mainnet could launch
Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com
Revised Trump indictment in January 6th case. Too hot for school. Israeli West Bank raids. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
