SEC fines fintech crypto fund that promised 2,700% returns

Titan Global Capital Management to pay $1m to those it advised without admitting fault

A New York fintech biz is set to pay $1 million in fines under a US Securities and Exchange Commission order that claims it advertised "annualized" returns on Titan Crypto of up to 2,700 percent, a number based on a "purely hypothetical account."…

Watch Live: India to Make Robot Moon Landing After Its Last One Crashed

The Chandrayaan-3 mission will attempt to land on the lunar surface on Wednesday morning, and would be the country's first successful moon landing.

Pantera Celebrate What Would Have Been Dimebag Darrell’s 57th Birthday in Austin: Watch

The band were joined onstage by Lamb of God's Randy Blythe and Dimebag's longtime girlfriend Rita Haney.

Pantera Celebrate What Would Have Been Dimebag Darrell’s 57th Birthday in Austin: Watch
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A new Atari 2600 will play your old cartridges

The Atari 2600 Plus. | Image: Atari

Atari has announced it’s relaunching its most well-known console as the Atari 2600 Plus on November 17th for $129.99, with preorders open now. It’s a fully functioning, 80 percent scale, HDMI-outputting version of the console that comes with a 10-in-1 game cartridge. Atari says it even supports both 2600 and later 7800 game cartridges and will work with the original joystick and paddle controllers.

Aside from being a little smaller and gaining HDMI and USB-C ports, the 2600 Plus is mostly unchanged. The front bears a strip of wood paneling with a light-up Atari logo, while four toggle switches flank its cartridge slot. Atari says the cartridge socket is a little bigger to help with sticking cartridges. On the back by the HDMI and USB-C...

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John Carpenter Announces New Album Anthology II, Shares “Chariots of Pumpkins”: Stream

The collection features re-recordings of songs from the Halloween franchise, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and Assault on Precinct 13.

John Carpenter Announces New Album Anthology II, Shares “Chariots of Pumpkins”: Stream
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Watch Guns N’ Roses Play a Mean ‘Bad Obsession’ With Chrissie Hynde on Harmonica

The Pretenders leader joined Axl Rose and the band onstage in Boston for the 'Use Your Illusion' track

Black Pumas Announce New Album Chronicles of a Diamond, Share “More Than a Love Song”: Stream

The psych-rockers' highly-anticipated sophomore LP arrives October 27th.

Black Pumas Announce New Album Chronicles of a Diamond, Share “More Than a Love Song”: Stream
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LeBron James and His Son Bronny Join Drake for Crowd Walkthrough at L.A. Concert

Four weeks ago, Bronny James was released from the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball workout

‘Horrendous’: Nicky Campbell tells inquiry of abuse at Edinburgh Academy

Broadcaster tells Scottish child abuse inquiry he is ‘haunted’ by memories of assaults at private school

The broadcaster Nicky Campbell has described a culture of anticipated violence, normalised sexual assault and relentless physical abuse at Edinburgh Academy during two hours of searing and emotional testimony to the Scottish child abuse inquiry.

Coming close to tears on a number of occasions, Campbell, now 62, who was a day pupil at the prestigious private school from the ages of five to 17, told the inquiry of the “horrendous knock-on effect” on his life of the abuses he experienced and witnessed happening to other children.

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Cases of flesh-eating invasive strep A bacteria surge in Australian children

Medical journal reports alarming rise in cases over two years with some patients experiencing toxic shock, amputation and flesh-eating, necrotising disease

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It took just two days for one-year-old Jordan Sutherland to go from experiencing clinginess and a slight temperature to being in intensive care after surgery to remove flesh-eating bacteria from his neck, which had “swollen from ear to ear”, his mother recalls.

Jordan would not leave the Royal Children’s hospital in Melbourne for almost five weeks, after an infection with the common strep A bacteria developed into a disease known as “invasive strep A”.

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Full of beans: scientists use processed coffee grounds to make stronger concrete

Australian engineers say they can make concrete nearly 30% stronger by incorporating processed coffee grounds into the material

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In an idea that fittingly arose over a cup of coffee, researchers have devised a technique to recycle used coffee grounds to make stronger concrete.

Engineers at RMIT University say they have developed a way to make concrete nearly 30% stronger by incorporating processed coffee grounds into the material.

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