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VANCOUVER - British Columbia business owner Joe Chaput will spend $5,500 a month on security guards during the holiday season and plans on upgrading his store’s video camera system for around $5,000 more. He’s not selling luxury brands or expensive jewels. Chaput sells cheese, and at Christmas, cheese is a hot commodity. He is the co-owner of specialty cheese store les amis du Fromage, with two locations in Vancouver. While cheeselifting is rare in their Kitsilano store, the outlet in East Vancouver is hit in waves, with nothing happening for a month, then three of four people trying to steal their inventory within a week. “Sometimes, you miss it. Sometimes, you catch it. The way shoplifters behave ... they tend to gravitate toward expensive things,” said Chaput. Expensive cheese is on shoplifters’ Christmas list, he said. “They tend to do the classic examples of staying away from customer service and trying to go to a different part of the store so they can be left alone to steal.” Chaput isn’t alone. Police say food-related crimes on are the rise in Canada and as prices climb for items such as cheese and butter, they become lucrative on the black market for organized crime groups, not to mention theft for local resale. Sylvain Charlebois, the director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-food Analytics Lab, said a black market tends to emerge as soon as food prices surge. “Organized crime will steal anything (if) they know they can sell it and so, they probably would have known who their clients are before even stealing anything at all, and that’s how a black market is organized,” said Charlebois. He said he believes there are two categories of people shoplifting — those who do so out of desperation because they can’t afford the food, or organized criminals, profiting from sales on the black market. Mounties in North Vancouver made cheesy headlines when they ran into a man with a cart of stolen cheese in the middle of the night in September. The cheese, valued at $12,800, was from a nearby Whole Foods Store. While the cheese was recovered, it had to be disposed of because it hadn’t been refrigerated. Const. Mansoor Sahak, with the North Vancouver RCMP, said officers believe cheese is targeted because it’s “profitable to resell.” “If they are drug addicts, they will commit further crimes with that or feed their drug habits. It’s a vicious cycle,” said Sahak. Sahak said meat is also a top target for grocery thieves, with store losses sometimes in the thousands. “So, we’re not surprised that this happened,” said Sahak. Police in Ontario have been chasing down slippery shoplifters going after butter. Scott Tracey, a spokesman with Guelph Police Service, said there have been eight or nine butter thefts over the last year, including one theft last December worth $1,000. In October, two men walked into a local grocer and filled their carts with cases of butter valued at $936, and four days later a Guelph grocer lost four cases valued at $958. Tracey said he has looked at online marketplaces and found listings by people selling 20 or 30 pounds of butter at a time. “Clearly, somebody didn’t accidentally buy 30 extra pounds of butter. So, they must have come from somewhere,” said Tracey, “I think at this point it appears to be the black market is where it’s headed.” He said the thefts seem to be organized, with two or three people working together in each case. Police in Brantford, Ont., are also investigating the theft of about $1,200 worth of butter from a store on Nov. 4. Charlebois said retailers could invest in prevention technologies like electronic tags, but putting them on butter or cheese is rare. He said up until recently grocery store theft has been a “taboo subject for many years.” Stores didn’t wanted to talk about thefts because they didn’t want to alarm people but now they feel they need to build awareness about what is “becoming a huge problem,” said Charlebois. Chaput, the cheese store owner, said he had been running the East Vancouver store for 15 years while managing the store in Kitsilano for 30 years, and he loves his customers. “It’s really one of the best parts of our businesses, seeing familiar faces and making new customers. It’s why we come to work, really. Partly it’s the cheese, and partly it’s the people,” said Chaput. He said his strategy to combat would-be thieves is to give them extra customer service to make it harder for them to steal. He admits, however, that the shoplifting causes him stress. “It’s challenging. You’re busy trying to run your business day to day and take care of customers and take care of employees. Having to deal with criminals, just kind of scratches away. It can be a bit exhausting,” said Chaput. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2024.Whoopi Goldberg Makes Rare Comment on Her 3 Failed Marriages
Every now and then we come across some individuals with rare talent whose prowess has changed society’s perception of human intelligence and ability. In the game of chess, the three Polgar sisters played a huge role in changing the attitude of men towards women players and bringing the fairer sex one step closer to attaining parity with the men. Even though chess is essentially a contest of the mind and not physique, there was a time when women chess players were looked down upon. Even the legendary world champion Bobby Fischer and a host of other grandmasters and organisers were dismissive of the ability of women players. Fischer went so far as to describe all women players to be of inferior standard. He boasted that he could beat women players even if he was given a handicap on the board. His views were echoed by top grandmasters. Amid all this negativity, there emerged three outstanding women players all from one family. The trio was sisters Susan, Sofia, and Judit. With a series of outstanding victories in different championships, they often obliterated male players and left their critics dumbfounded. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, male domination of chess experienced the first tremor when the three young Hungarian sisters moved into the front line of world-class players. The feats of the Polgar sisters at early ages matched or surpassed some of those of the greatest male players. What was unique about them was that the trio was part of an educational experiment carried out by their father Laszlo Polgar, a Hungarian academician who wanted to prove that children could achieve anything if they were trained in a specialized subject from a very early age. “Geniuses are made, not born,” was his theory. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the principal subject. The world’s human population is around 8 billion. To climb to the top rung of any profession among such a vast number, requires extraordinary talent, extremely hard work and loads of luck. For three siblings from one family to achieve such greatness was nothing short of a miracle. The results that the sisters obtained astounded everyone. At the age of 15, the eldest sister Susan became the top-ranked female chess player in the world. In 1991, she became the third woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. She won eleven medals at the Women’s Chess Olympiad (4 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze). The second sister Sofia holds the FIDE title of International Master and Women’s Grandmaster. She represented Hungary in four Chess Olympiads and won two team gold medals, one team Silver, three individual Golds, and one individual Bronze. Among her other achievements, Sofia is well known for an episode that was later called the “Sack of Rome”. During a tournament in Rome in 1989, she won the event with a score of 8.5 points. Her victims included 10 Grandmasters of chess and Sofia was only 14 years old at the time. It sent shock waves throughout the world. But it is the youngest sister Judit who is widely regarded as the strongest woman player in the history of chess. In 1991, Judit took the title of Grandmaster and was then the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer, the man with such a poor opinion of women. Judit was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list at 12. On the way, she defeated male superstars such as Nigel Short and Gary Kasparov. These sisters’ success was largely responsible for changing the widely held perceptions about women’s chess players. Judit has repeatedly emphasized that women can achieve as much as men if they are given the right kind of encouragement and training. The sisters are no longer active players but the feats that they achieved with talent, hard work and the vision of their father, have inspired the women players of the present. Will the world see more players of the same calibre as these three sisters? More importantly since India is now making waves in world chess, will Indian girls emulate them? To get the answer to that question, we need to wait and watch. No one knows how long.
Researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents November 22, 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Researchers developed an efficient approach for training more reliable reinforcement learning models, focusing on complex tasks that involve variability. This could enable the leverage of reinforcement learning across a wide range of applications. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds. For example, using an AI system to intelligently control traffic in a congested city could help motorists reach their destinations faster, while improving safety or sustainability. Unfortunately, teaching an AI system to make good decisions is no easy task. Reinforcement learning models, which underlie these AI decision-making systems, still often fail when faced with even small variations in the tasks they are trained to perform. In the case of traffic, a model might struggle to control a set of intersections with different speed limits, numbers of lanes, or traffic patterns. To boost the reliability of reinforcement learning models for complex tasks with variability, MIT researchers have introduced a more efficient algorithm for training them. The algorithm strategically selects the best tasks for training an AI agent so it can effectively perform all tasks in a collection of related tasks. In the case of traffic signal control, each task could be one intersection in a task space that includes all intersections in the city. By focusing on a smaller number of intersections that contribute the most to the algorithm's overall effectiveness, this method maximizes performance while keeping the training cost low. The researchers found that their technique was between five and 50 times more efficient than standard approaches on an array of simulated tasks. This gain in efficiency helps the algorithm learn a better solution in a faster manner, ultimately improving the performance of the AI agent. "We were able to see incredible performance improvements, with a very simple algorithm, by thinking outside the box. An algorithm that is not very complicated stands a better chance of being adopted by the community because it is easier to implement and easier for others to understand," says senior author Cathy Wu, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). She is joined on the paper by lead author Jung-Hoon Cho, a CEE graduate student; Vindula Jayawardana, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); and Sirui Li, an IDSS graduate student. The research will be presented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Finding a middle ground To train an algorithm to control traffic lights at many intersections in a city, an engineer would typically choose between two main approaches. She can train one algorithm for each intersection independently, using only that intersection's data, or train a larger algorithm using data from all intersections and then apply it to each one. But each approach comes with its share of downsides. Training a separate algorithm for each task (such as a given intersection) is a time-consuming process that requires an enormous amount of data and computation, while training one algorithm for all tasks often leads to subpar performance. Wu and her collaborators sought a sweet spot between these two approaches. For their method, they choose a subset of tasks and train one algorithm for each task independently. Importantly, they strategically select individual tasks which are most likely to improve the algorithm's overall performance on all tasks. They leverage a common trick from the reinforcement learning field called zero-shot transfer learning, in which an already trained model is applied to a new task without being further trained. With transfer learning, the model often performs remarkably well on the new neighbor task. "We know it would be ideal to train on all the tasks, but we wondered if we could get away with training on a subset of those tasks, apply the result to all the tasks, and still see a performance increase," Wu says. To identify which tasks they should select to maximize expected performance, the researchers developed an algorithm called Model-Based Transfer Learning (MBTL). The MBTL algorithm has two pieces. For one, it models how well each algorithm would perform if it were trained independently on one task. Then it models how much each algorithm's performance would degrade if it were transferred to each other task, a concept known as generalization performance. Explicitly modeling generalization performance allows MBTL to estimate the value of training on a new task. MBTL does this sequentially, choosing the task which leads to the highest performance gain first, then selecting additional tasks that provide the biggest subsequent marginal improvements to overall performance. Since MBTL only focuses on the most promising tasks, it can dramatically improve the efficiency of the training process. Reducing training costs When the researchers tested this technique on simulated tasks, including controlling traffic signals, managing real-time speed advisories, and executing several classic control tasks, it was five to 50 times more efficient than other methods. This means they could arrive at the same solution by training on far less data. For instance, with a 50x efficiency boost, the MBTL algorithm could train on just two tasks and achieve the same performance as a standard method which uses data from 100 tasks. "From the perspective of the two main approaches, that means data from the other 98 tasks was not necessary or that training on all 100 tasks is confusing to the algorithm, so the performance ends up worse than ours," Wu says. With MBTL, adding even a small amount of additional training time could lead to much better performance. In the future, the researchers plan to design MBTL algorithms that can extend to more complex problems, such as high-dimensional task spaces. They are also interested in applying their approach to real-world problems, especially in next-generation mobility systems. The research is funded, in part, by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Kwanjeong Educational Foundation PhD Scholarship Program, and an Amazon Robotics PhD Fellowship. 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Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim claims that "the storm is coming" for his team. Despite a promising start to his tenure, with two wins and a draw in his first three games, Amorim is aware of the daunting challenges ahead. United's next fixture is away to Arsenal , a team that has finished second in the Premier League for the past two seasons, and Amorim acknowledged the significant gap between the two clubs. With a tough run of fixtures looming, including matches against Manchester City , Tottenham , Liverpool , and another encounter with Arsenal in the FA Cup, Amorim is cautious about his team's prospects. United's recent record against the top six teams is dismal, with no wins in their last ten away fixtures, and Amorim is bracing himself for difficult times ahead. "I would like to say different things, but I have to say it again: the storm will come," the Portuguese coach said. "I don't know if you use that expression but we are going to have difficult moments and we will be found out in some games. And I know that because I'm knowing my players and I know football and I follow football. "So I understand the difference between the teams and we are in the point in that we are putting simple things in the team, without training, and you feel it in this game against Everton. They change a little bit the way they were building up. "They are a very good team and we were with a lot of problems because we cannot change it by calling one thing to the captain. So we don't have this training. So let's focus on each game, on the performance, what we have to improve, trying to win games. And that is the focus." He further stressed the high expectations at the club: "I know it's really hard to be a Manchester United coach and say these things in press conferences. We want to win all the time, no matter what. We are going to try to win but we know that we are in a different point if you compared to Arsenal . "So it is what it is and we will try to win it and we go with confidence to win, but we know that we need to play very well to win the next football match."
Gaming enthusiasts and tech gurus alike, brace yourselves for what could be the next big thing in interactive entertainment: ברקד. While the name might sound cryptic to some, this groundbreaking technology promises to revolutionize how we perceive and interact with digital worlds. Imagine a future where virtual reality is not just seen, but felt. ברקד is a cutting-edge innovation in sensory technology, paving the way for a multidimensional gaming experience. Unlike traditional VR systems that rely heavily on just visuals and sounds, ברקד introduces a new layer of interaction by engaging additional senses, potentially including touch, smell, and even temperature. The potential applications of ברקד are mind-boggling. Developers could create games that not only look real but also feel real. Picture yourself walking through a virtual forest and feeling the breeze on your skin or stepping into a sunny desert and sensing the heat. This enhanced level of sensory interaction could transport players to another realm, bridging the gap between the digital and the physical in unprecedented ways. Industry experts are buzzing about the implications of ברקד. Some predict it could become mainstream within a few years, transforming gaming, education, and even remote work environments. By offering a more immersive experience, ברקד holds the promise of changing how we engage with virtual spaces entirely. Stay tuned as we continue to explore the potential of ברקד and its impact on the future of gaming. The horizon looks exciting, and the possibilities are endless. ברקד: The Game-Changer in Sensory Technology As the line between digital and physical worlds blurs, ברקד emerges as a significant development that could redefine interactive entertainment. This novel technology is poised to become integral to the gaming industry and beyond, offering an array of possibilities that go far beyond your typical virtual reality experience. Features of ברקד One of the most groundbreaking features of ברקד is its ability to engage multiple senses beyond sight and sound. By deploying advanced sensory technology, ברקד allows users to experience virtual environments with a sense of touch, smell, and even perceive temperature changes. This means future gameplay could be enriched with immersive tactile sensations, making adventures feel extraordinarily real. Pros and Cons Pros: – Enhanced Immersion: Offers a sense of presence in virtual worlds, improving user engagement. – Diverse Applications: Suitable for varied domains, including gaming, education, and remote collaboration. – Innovative Interaction: Provides a richer, more nuanced interaction when comparing to current VR systems. Cons: – High Development Costs: Creating content that utilizes all sensory inputs may increase production costs. – Hardware Limitations: Requires specialized equipment that might be expensive or cumbersome for everyday consumers. Innovative Use Cases ברקד’s applications extend beyond gaming into several fields: – Education: Imagine virtual classrooms where students can conduct science experiments with near-real sensations. – Healthcare: Therapy sessions can incorporate ברקד to simulate calming or motivational environments. – Remote Work: Virtual meetings could benefit from a more interactive experience, potentially transforming how remote work is conducted. Market Analysis and Predictions Industry analysts predict that ברקד will likely capture significant market interest within the next few years. As sensory technology increasingly integrates into mainstream devices, it may not only broaden its market but also reshape consumer expectations in digital experiences. Security Aspects Any new technology, especially one so interconnected with user experiences, necessitates vigilant attention to security and privacy. Developers will need to ensure personal data, such as biometric feedback, is safeguarded against potential breaches. Sustainability Considerations As ברקד technology develops, sustainability will be a consideration, particularly regarding energy consumption and material use in hardware devices. Innovations in this space might include eco-friendly manufacturing processes to conform with rising environmental concerns. For further insights into cutting-edge sensory technologies and their future implications, visit TechRadar —a leading source for technology news and trends.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he would work to end the "inconvenient" custom of moving clocks forward one hour every spring, which he said was imposing an unnecessary financial burden on the United States. "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't! Daylight Saving Time (DST) is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation," Trump posted on his website, Truth Social. DST was adopted by the federal government during World War I but was unpopular with farmers rushing to get produce to morning markets, and was quickly abolished. Many states experimented with their own versions but it wasn't reintroduced nationwide until 1967. The Democratic-controlled US Senate advanced a bill in 2022 that, like Trump's plan, would bring an end to the twice-yearly changing of clocks, in favor of a "new, permanent standard time." But The Sunshine Protection Act called for the opposite switch -- moving permanently to DST rather than eliminating it -- to usher in brighter evenings, and fewer journeys home in the dark for school children and office workers. The bill never made it to President Joe Biden's desk, as it was not taken up in the Republican-led House. It had been introduced in 2021 by a Republican, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is about to join the incoming Trump administration as secretary of state. He said studies had shown a permanent DST could benefit the economy. Either way, changing to one permanent time would put an end to Americans pushing their clocks forward in the spring, then setting them back an hour in the fall. Colloquially the practice is referred to as "springing" forward and "falling" back. The clamor has increased in recent years to make DST permanent especially among politicians and lobbyists from the Northeast, where frigid conditions are normal in the early winter mornings. "It's really straightforward. Cutting back on the sun during the fall and winter is a drain on the American people and does little to nothing to help them," Rubio said in a statement ahead of the vote. "It's time we retire this tired tradition." Rubio said the United States sees an increase in heart attacks and road accidents in the week that follows the changing of the clocks. Any changes would be unlikely to affect Hawaii and most of Arizona, the Navajo Nation, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, which do not spring forward in summer. ft/nroGenerative AI tools snuck into the pockets of millions more Australians this week as Apple launched its big push into the technology. or signup to continue reading The software updates delivered to smartphones, computers and tablets promise to help users compose stories and messages, edit images or create them and identify objects from the real world. But Apple's AI tools come almost a full year after its biggest rival launched artificial intelligence in smartphones and four months after one of the world's biggest tech companies made its AI play. Industry experts say Apple may still have one big drawcard for consumers, however, and it relies on keeping its promise to keep their personal information private. Apple Intelligence features arrived inside software updates delivered to the company's devices on Thursday. Rather than appear in a single app, the US tech giant has scattered AI tools throughout its menus, offering writing assistance in its own apps like Notes, for example, as well as those from third parties, and notification summaries from all apps as they arrive. Apple's AI additions also offer a photo-editing tool that removes objects in images and Visual Intelligence that uses photos to search for real-world objects. The company's AI tools have taken longer to arrive than many expected, University of the Sunshine Coast computer science lecturer Dr Erica Mealy says, but Apple could not avoid making an investment in the popular technology. "Apple had to put AI in their devices or they were definitely going to be left behind but I don't think that's necessarily a disadvantage because Apple often does that and does it better," she says. "They are more of an everyman's technology company, whereas some of the others tend to bring out the technology really soon." Apple's biggest rival, Samsung, launched Galaxy AI in its devices in January and Google followed in August, bringing more Gemini-powered tools to the latest generation of Pixel smartphones for rewriting text, producing images and even swapping faces in photographs. The iPhone's AI delay might not be the drawback it seems on paper, Dr Mealy says, if the company can convince customers their take on the technology is more practical and private. "Their approach is refreshing because a lot of the others are saying, 'AI is here, let's give all the data to AI,' and they're forgetting the fact that for the AI to be aware it needs to watch us constantly," she says. "If (Apple) can tell users a story about keeping more privacy or about how they are doing AI better that will be interesting to see." Apple's AI approach is different in that features are not only spread across apps but use two models: the company's own Apple Intelligence system and OpenAI's ChatGPT. In the first instance, AI requests on Apple devices are handled by the company's own platform, with processing on the device itself or on a Private Cloud Compute server that does not retain the data. More complex AI tasks such as composing stories or answering challenging queries posed to Siri can be handed over to ChatGPT but only if the user grants permission. Tasks handed over to ChatGPT remain anonymous, unless the user decides to sign into the service. The partnership of Apple and OpenAI is an unexpected one, Telsyte managing director Foad Fadaghi says, but could prove beneficial for both parties if it's handled well. "It's pulling Apple out of its comfort zone," he says. "Going out to ChatGPT was probably a very difficult decision for Apple to have made and it's to indicate to users Apple features are not going to be behind the times or antiquated." Apple will face significant challenges to ensure its own AI system keeps pace with that of standalone apps, such as Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Meta AI, Mr Fadaghi says but consumers will demand it. One in five Australian consumers say they will consider AI when upgrading their smartphone, according to Telyste research, and that figure rises to one in four for consumers who regularly use AI tools. "Consumers are thinking about what they might need in four or five years' time when buying handsets now," Mr Fadaghi says. "Devices that don't have AI-ready hardware are going to be less attractive." The additional of AI features is a key consideration for some phone buyers, Kantar Worldpanel global consumer insights director Jack Hamlin says. Twelve per cent of Google Pixel buyers say AI features are key to their choice, he says, even though sales of the smartphones did not rise this year. AI IN YOUR POCKET: 5 APPLE INTELLIGENCE FEATURES Smarter Siri: The AI-boosted voice assistant can respond to queries posed in natural language, features a new glowing light, more voice choices and can summon assistance from ChatGPT if users permit it. AI images: A dedicated app called Image Playground can generate cartoons or illustrations based on themes or inspired by photographs, while a feature called Image Wand can turn a sketch in the Notes app into a polished image. Photo editing: Apple takes a light touch to photographic AI. Its Clean Up feature lets users select visual distractions to remove them, recording its use in metadata and it supports more detailed photo voice searches. Word-wrangling: An AI-powered feature called Writing Tools appears across apps including Notes, Pages, Mail and Messages. It can proofread, summarise or rewrite text in different styles. Additional text-generation is available using ChatGPT. Summaries: Useful if a group chat gets too chatty, Apple Intelligence can summarise notifications from apps including Mail and Messages and provide a summary of what is yet to be read. Advertisement Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. We care about the protection of your data. Read our . Advertisement
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( MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) As the world of Cryptocurrency continues to evolve, changes in leadership and policy in the U.S. bring about unique challenges and opportunities. Under former President Donald Trump, crypto experienced a complex relationship with mixed sentiments regarding its role in the U.S. economy. Now, as Political dynamics shift, what lies ahead for digital currencies? Trump's Stance on Cryptocurrency Trump's administration was known for its ambivalence toward cryptocurrency, with the former president himself vocal about his skepticism. trump expressed concerns over Bitcoin, describing it as a potential tool for illegal activity and an unreliable financial asset. His administration took steps to implement regulatory frameworks, creating mixed reactions among crypto enthusiasts. Despite this cautious approach, the crypto industry saw unprecedented growth, with Bitcoin and other assets skyrocketing. Ironically, Trump's own policies indirectly facilitated market interest in decentralized currencies, as traditional financial markets faced regulatory constraints and limitations. However, his rhetoric consistently favored the dollar, casting crypto as a fringe asset. Opportunities for Crypto in Decentralized Sectors As governments contemplate crypto's role, decentralized sectors like gaming and entertainment are already seeing benefits. An example is the casino industry, where online casinos not on GamStop are exploring crypto transactions to attract an audience looking for flexible, secure payment options. For instance, platforms mentioned on This guide leverage blockchain technology to offer fast, anonymous transactions, which appeal to players who prioritize privacy and control over their funds. The use of cryptocurrency in online casinos exemplifies how decentralized finance can enhance user experiences and support industries beyond traditional finance. A New Regulatory Horizon Under new leadership, the crypto sector anticipates potential shifts in regulations. While Trump was often vocal against crypto, the current political landscape suggests a more open-minded approach. Policymakers are exploring how crypto can integrate with traditional finance systems and the larger U.S. economy. Potential upcoming legislation could include enhanced oversight of stablecoins, decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, and crypto exchanges . These measures could provide the much-needed legitimacy for cryptocurrency, allowing it to flourish under legal and regulatory protections. Crypto and Mainstream Adoption Beyond the casino sector, other mainstream industries are increasingly warming to digital currencies. Financial institutions, once hesitant, are now introducing crypto-related services, catering to a demand that's hard to ignore. Institutional investments in crypto are at an all-time high, with firms like Grayscale and MicroStrategy pouring significant resources into Bitcoin. This mainstream interest suggests that crypto may gradually move from a speculative asset to a core financial tool. International Competition While the U.S. continues to debate the merits of crypto, other countries are moving forward with robust policies. China, for instance, has developed its own digital yuan, challenging the dominance of the dollar. Europe is also exploring a digital euro, emphasizing the importance of the U.S. in not falling behind in the digital currency race. Strategic policies around crypto could enable the U.S. to maintain its influence in global finance, potentially positioning the dollar as a leader among fiat and digital currencies alike. Conclusion: The Road Ahead for Crypto The future of cryptocurrency post-Trump is likely to be marked by a delicate balance between regulatory oversight and innovation. With newer, more crypto-friendly policies on the horizon, the industry may achieve legitimacy and stability. However, how this balance is struck will ultimately determine whether crypto realizes its potential as a transformative force or remains on the financial periphery. As industries like online casinos and international finance embrace crypto, it's evident that digital currencies are not only here to stay but are set to become a key player in the future economy. MENAFN15122024000153011029ID1108995014 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.South Carolina is off to an uneven start, but that hasn't obscured the steady rise of Collin Murray-Boyles. The 6-foot-7 sophomore will be the player to watch when South Carolina (6-3) hosts South Carolina Upstate (4-8) Saturday afternoon in Columbia. Murray-Boyles leads the Gamecocks in points (16.2), rebounds (9.4), steals (1.2) and blocks (1.1) per game. As South Carolina struggled to a 75-68 victory over East Carolina on Saturday, Murray-Boyles carried the Gamecocks, making all 10 of his shots from the floor and finishing with 20 points and 10 rebounds. "He's been working on pivoting towards the basket and getting on balance and then making a strong move through some contact," South Carolina coach Lamont Paris said. The Gamecocks have been highly dependent on Murray-Boyles. In the two games in which he has fouled out, South Carolina lost to Xavier and Indiana. Meanwhile, the Gamecocks are unbeaten in the six games in which he has collected at least eight rebounds. "He's still growing and it's exciting to see," Paris said. "He's got phenomenal natural touch." Also emerging lately have been Norfolk State transfer Jamarii Thomas, who had season highs of 22 points and seven assists against East Carolina, and Morris Ugusuk, who has hit 10 of 14 shots from 3-point range in the last three games. South Carolina Upstate has been sparked by a pair of guards who each have won multiple Big South freshman of the week awards. Carmelo Adkins had 31 points and 12 rebounds in wins last week over Division III Brevard and at Western Carolina, while Mister Dean leads the Spartans in points (15.7), rebounds (5.6) and steals (2.0) per game. "He sparks runs because he'll make a dynamic dunk," Spartans coach Marty Richter said of Dean. "He brings energy with how he scores the basketball, in a hurry. He can score in bunches." The Spartans enter on a high as the win over Western Carolina was Richter's first over a Division I team. South Carolina Upstate is 1-8 all-time against South Carolina. This year, the Spartans are winless in four games against power conference schools. In an 85-80 loss a month ago at Wake Forest, however, they led for much of the second half. --Field Level Media
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