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There are about 3,320 billionaires in the world. That's about 0.00004% of the global population. Despite their scarcity, billionaires are surprisingly easy to find. After all, birds of a feather — especially those of a small brood — flock their private jets together. At the start of the year, they descend en masse on Davos. In July, they fly to Sun Valley for the Allen & Company Conference. And they wrap it up with New Year's Eve in St. Barts. Here's where the wealthiest among us mingle, wheel and deal, and relax, and how you can join them — for a small price, of course. January: Davos After billionaires shake off their New Year's Eve hangovers, many join world leaders and head to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos to attend lavish dinners, hit the slopes, and discuss the global problem du jour, which, this year, is collaboration for the intelligent age." The event, which will take place from January 20 to 24, is invite-only ...

1. Indian filter coffee from SOUTHERN INDIA, India TasteAtlas Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 shutterstock Indian filter coffee is a preparation technique in which coffee is brewed with the use of an Indian coffee filter. This filter consists of two chambers—the upper one with a perforated bottom used to hold ground coffee and the bottom one in which brewed coffee is slowly dripped. This brewing technique results in a richly-flavored, full-bodied coffee that is usually mixed with milk and sweetened with sugar. It is traditionally served in a tumbler with an accompanying saucer (davara). Sometimes, the combination of coffee and warm milk is continuously poured from one vessel to another until it is aerated and becomes frothy. 2. Café Cubano from CUBA TasteAtlas Ratings: 4.6 out of 5 shutterstock A unique, pre-sweetened type of espresso that originated in Cuba known as café Cubano is often referred to as Cuban espresso, Cuban coffee, Cuban pull, or Cuban shot. Although it holds a unique status...

President-elect Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, just before his inauguration. The $TRUMP meme coin has a $60 billion valuation as of Sunday, with the bulk of that held by Trump and his businesses. Trump declared $TRUMP as his "Official Trump Meme" coin on social media. Several other Trump-branded coins are around, but none with his endorsement. The $TRUMP website says 80% of the meme coin is held by Trump Organization affiliate CIC Digital, and a CIC co-owned entity called Fight Fight Fight. In promoting the meme coin, Trump told supporters to “Have Fun!” The website selling the tokens says they are meant as expressions of support and not an investment opportunity. That hasn’t stopped people from trying to make money. The Trump meme coins started selling for $10 each before soaring to as high as about $75 as of Sunday morning, but has pulled back to $60. The market cap is now $12 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.com. But the fully diluted valuation is roughly...

Stem cell therapy has gained popularity as a promising treatment option for conditions where the current medical treatment protocols have been exhausted. However, there is also a lot of confusion due to the overwhelming flood of disinformation and mixing of credible scientific information and marketing hypes available on the internet.  Currently, there are more than 300,000 scientific studies published on  PubMed.gov  and more than 8,000 on-going stem cell related studies on  clinicaltrials.gov . Contents We have compiled and summarised essential information below in layman's terms so that you can understand and make a better informed decision. We have sifted through the internet and filtered out the junks out there. We have summarised essential information and provided some relevant links in order to facilitate your research for 'Stem Cell Therapy Malaysia' in one place. Do go through them and do your own research and hopefully, you will be getting the best possible...

Bitcoin's price surged over 100% in 12 months, sparking renewed crypto interest. The four-year bitcoin halving cycle drives price increases by reducing new coin supply. Altcoins may see gains as bitcoin investors diversify, but institutional shifts could affect them. Since bitcoin's price surged by more than 100% over the past 12 months,  crypto  is back in the headlines. Enthusiasts who had been waiting out the bear market are preparing for what they hope will be another round of 2021's crypto bull market. Here's why: The four-year  bitcoin halving  cycle, which cuts the rate of new-coin creation in half, is at the core of crypto's boom and busts. Following the event, demand outpaces tightened supply, driving prices up over the following year. As  bitcoin holders  reap profits from the rise, some of those gains trickle down into altcoins in a scenario resembling the tide that lifts all boats. So far, this cycle has been on repeat since bitcoin's inception ...

Tech leaders, including an early Facebook investor, launch a $30M campaign for independent social media. Free Our Feeds aims to counter billionaire control with the open-source AT Protocol. The campaign is led by executives from Mozilla, Social Web Foundation, and other tech nonprofits. Days after  Meta  announced  controversial changes  to its content-moderation policies, a group of prominent technology leaders and nonprofit executives launched an ambitious $30 million campaign to build a social media ecosystem free from "billionaire control." The initiative, called Free Our Feeds, aims to create independent infrastructure around the AT Protocol, an open-source technology that powers the  Bluesky social network  and allows anyone to build their own social media applications, similar to how open web protocols let anyone build websites. The project comes at a critical moment when traditional social platforms are facing intense scrutiny over their concentrate...

Publishing.com sells $2,000 courses and tools for publishing AI-generated books. Public records obtained by Business Insider reveal an FTC investigation into the company. It was founded by Rasmus and Christian Mikkelsen and was reported to have made $50 million in 2022. Public records obtained by Business Insider reveal a Federal Trade Commission investigation into   Publishing.com, a company that sells courses on creating AI-generated books. The company, which was reported to have made nearly $50 million in 2022, charges $2,000 to teach customers how to generate books and e-books with help from ghostwriters and artificial-intelligence software. It's drawn scrutiny for its role in flooding  Amazon  with AI-generated content and has been the subject of numerous customer complaints alleging high-pressure sales tactics and difficulties getting refunds. Investigations by the FTC often target companies suspected of  duping consumers  through deceptive marketing, hidd...