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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Crypto expert on the benefits of stablecoins

As the UK Government has announced plans to regulate stablecoins, an expert believes it will hugely benefit businesses.

We spoke to Teana Baker Taylor, director at Crypto UK, who says using them to send money abroad will save time and cost, and keep businesses in the country.

She warned that some UK-based firms have already opted to move their operations abroad, because there are no clear regulations in place for the use of cryptocurrencies like stablecoins.

Scientists reckon they’ve found a fossil of a dinosaur that was killed by the asteroid which sent the species into extinction.

The leg, which experts say has been ‘perfectly preserved’, is complete with skin and appears to be from a Thescelosaurus. It was found at a fossil site in North Dakota.

Mario Golf is officially coming to a Nintendo Switch near you.

The classic is being added to the N64 library later this month, as part of the ‘Switch Online’ service. It’ll join classics like Mario Kart 64, The Legend of Zelda and Mario Tennis.

Rockstar Games are working with the original creators of Max Payne 1 and 2, Remedy,  to bring them back as a 2-in-1 compilation.

Paramount looks to be the next firm dipping its toe in the metaverse, Pinterest’s updated its rules to ban all posts about climate misinformation, Astronomers have spotted what they reckon is the most distant astronomical object ever seen. Plus, Covid-19 is being linked to increased risk of serious blood clots for up to six months, and, why computer scientist believes mushrooms - or ‘fungi’ - communicate in a similar way to humans.Listen here, or here:

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