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Turns out short and sweet may be the strongest training strategy of all, according to new data from Tonal Tonal members are getting stronger in less time. That’s the headline emerging from the at-home fitness company’s new State of Strength Report, which analyzed data from 32,000 members and 700 survey respondents to understand how training habits are shifting. The takeaway? Long, punishing workouts are giving way to shorter, smarter sessions that still deliver results. More than half of Tonal members now train for 31 to 45 minutes instead of 45 to 60, and 90% say they’ve built more strength in…
Investors who have to sell their cryptocurrency for a loss may be able to claim tax back from Inland Revenue (IRD). IRD has made it clear that people who are trading cryptocurrency should pay tax on their gains. In July last year IRD signalled it was honing in on people buying and selling crypto who were not declaring their income. It had identified had 227,000 unique crypto asset users in New Zealand undertaking around 7 million transactions with a value of $7.8 billion. Last week, accountant Tim Doyle, who specialises in cryptocurrency, told Checkpoint nearly a third of his clients had received…
Crypto analyst Dom has provided an update on what could spark the next XRP price surge. He highlighted an important level that the altcoin needs to reclaim for it to rally to $2.50, which would mark a new high since the October 10 liquidation event. XRP Price Must Reclaim This Level To Trigger Another Surge In an X post, Dom stated that the XRP price needs to regain the monthly rVWAP around $2.22, as that would be the shift for a rally towards $2.50. This came as the analyst revealed that an inverse of the XRP chart over the last…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta on Thursday began deactivating Instagram and Facebook accounts of Australian users under the age of 16 ahead of next week’s social media ban. Australia passed a new law in 2024 that forces major social media platforms to block anyone under the age of 16 from accessing their services under penalty of hefty multi-million dollar fines for the platforms. The law will go into effect on Wednesday, December 10. As Breitbart News reported in November, Meta began notifying Australian users aged 13-15 that their accounts would soon be shut down by the company in compliance with the country’s…
If you like both electric vehicles and emotional roller coasters, 2025 was an excellent year. However, for those of us whose nerves are already sufficiently frazzled, the highs and lows of the last 12 months were a bit hard to stomach.In 2025, we saw the introduction of new, compelling models like the Lucid Gravity and refreshed Nissan Leaf, the latter available at a price on par with its internally combusted competition. From a product availability standpoint, 2025 was the year the EV market started feeling more mature and less manic.But 2025 also saw new heights of anti-EV vitriol stirred up…
Sony Interactive Entertainment has signed a deal to produce and publish a game from Bad Robot, JJ Abrams’ production company. The two sides are keeping most of the details close to their chest for now, but the game is a four-player co-op shooter for PlayStation 5 and PC directed by someone who knows a thing or two about that genre: Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth.Bad Robot Games — which is a fully remote studio — was formed in 2018 with the help of Tencent. It has lent a hand on games including Weird West (as an investor and creative…
Podcaster megastar Joe Rogan made a head-scratching claim this week when he said “AI could absolutely return as Jesus.” Rogan cited the virgin birth to support his claim about Jesus returning in the form of AI. “Jesus was born out of a virgin mother. What’s more virgin than a computer? If Jesus does return, you don’t think he could return as artificial intelligence? AI could absolutely return as Jesus,” he said. While AI has certainly been discussed as playing a possible role in salvation history, it mostly has centered on it being the source of an actual anti-Christ, not the…
Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc said Thursday he could not be compared with Wasim Akram after he surpassed the Pakistani great as the leading left-arm pace bowler in Test history. Starc’s six-wicket haul on day one of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane gave him 418 Test wickets, four more than Wasim. “Wasim’s still a far better bowler than I am,” said Starc. “So as far as I’m concerned, he’s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly he’s right up there with the best bowlers to ever play the game. “It’s nice to be spoken of up around that, but…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege. The official who described the arrest was not authorized to…
As the market rebounds, Solana (SOL) is retesting a crucial area that has served as resistance since the November pullbacks. Some market watchers suggest that a short-term rally is likely, while others have highlighted potential signs of weakness. Related Reading Solana Eyes $144 Resistance Solana is attempting to turn the $140 area into support while nearing a key local resistance for the third time in a month. The cryptocurrency has been trading between the $120-$144 levels since mid-November, struggling to hold the high zone of its local range amid the recent market volatility. Last week, it bounced 10% toward the…