Ray Dalio warns U.S. debt could reach $60 trillion within a decade, raising the risk of severe financial disruption. The Bridgewater Associates founder recommends 10% to 15% in gold, plus a bit of bitcoin, as currencies weaken.
Key Takeaways
Ray Dalio expects U.S. debt to reach between $55 trillion and $60 trillion.
He recommends 10% to 15% in gold, plus a small bitcoin position.
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A U.K. court shut down Key Coin Assets Ltd. after nine investors who complained to Action Fraud paid more than £300,000. Investigators found no evidence of genuine trading and described its operation as displaying hallmarks of a Ponzi-style scheme.
Key Takeaways
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My favorite thing in the night sky appears on Aug. 28 — and it proves Earth is a sphere
August 24, 2026
What’s your favorite thing in the night sky? Maybe it’s the Pleiades, that sparkling open cluster that dominates winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it’s a sight of the Milky Way arching across the summer sky. Or could it be Saturn, a close-up sight…
Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
August 24, 2026
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of “dark photons,” it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists previously thought. If correct, this discovery could represent a paradigm shift in the hunt for the universe’s most mysterious stuff.
Dark matter remains so elusive because, despite outweighing the everyday matter that composes stars, planets, moons…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
August 24, 2026
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How to view a partial lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse captured over the United Kingdom in 2007. (Image credit: Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
One of the wonderful things about a lunar eclipse is that it can be witnessed by everyone who…
Vivo T5 5G India Launch Teased, Price Range Revealed
August 24, 2026
Vivo T5 5G India launch has been teased and the device’s side profiles have been revealed. The company states that it is going to have an “ultra-slim” body along with a curved display. The price range of the handset has also been confirmed, suggesting it…
Poco M8x 5G has been announced in India with a huge 7900mAh battery under the hood along with a Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 processor. Poco says the M8x 5G is the first smartphone in India to be powered by this processor. Here’s everything to know about the new device.
Poco M8x 5G: Price, Availability
The Poco M8x 5G will be available in two variants, with the 4GB + 128GB variant priced at Rs 20,999…
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
August 24, 2026
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But…
Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. A harness is the software wrapper around an AI model – the tools, memory…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round. The extension values the company at $2.3 billion.
The additional capital will allow the company to open a larger manufacturing facility and advance its largest orbital data center spacecraft, Starcloud-3…
