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In a first, this Christmas Netflix will be live streaming two NFL games. All four teams playing are … [+] playoff bound, including the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. (Photo by Jason Hanna/Getty Images)Getty Images In a first, Netflix, will be live streaming two NFL regular season games on Christmas Day. The kick-off for first game is 1 p.m. (ET) and will feature the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers. The second game will start at 4:30 p.m. (ET) with the Houston Texans hosting the Baltimore Ravens. All four AFC teams made…

A Norfolk Southern train at Elizabethport, N.J. (Photo: Stuart Chirls/FreightWaves) Norfolk Southern Corp. has named Michael Barr as vice president of investor relations and treasurer. Barr most recently worked as managing director at asset management firm Neuberger Berman, where he managed sector allocations within the firm’s research portfolio, NS said in a release. Barr has worked extensively with railroads Norfolk Southern, CSX and Union Pacific over more than two decades’ experience in finance and investment management, NS (NYSE: NSC) said. Barr succeeds Chris Ceraso, who left NS earlier this year. He reports to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer…

TAIPEI: Cheng Chen Chin-Mei beamed broadly as she hoisted a 35-kg (77-pound) weightlifting bar to her waist, dropped it and waved confidently to the enthusiastic crowd in a competition in Taipei. Cheng Chen, 90, has been pumping iron since last year, encouraged by her granddaughter to take up the sport after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. She credits the regimen with helping to fix her posture. Three generations of her family were among a couple of hundred people watching Cheng Chen and 44 others aged 70 or over in a weightlifting competition on Saturday. In the three-round competition, Cheng…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rises and falls. It always has and likely always will—just as any stock or asset does. However, as of late, its jumps are far larger than its drops. In other words, crypto enthusiasts are enjoying their own version of the Roaring Twenties, an era of Western economic prosperity following the devastating Great War. Likewise, Bitcoin holders and crypto advocates are gleefully checking their digital wallets and watching token values take off just…

The US Department of Commerce on Friday announced its awards for Samsung, Texas Instruments and Amkor Technology under the CHIPS Incentives Program, which come to more than $6.75 billion altogether. The program is meant to help expand domestic semiconductor production. Samsung was awarded up to $4.745 billion in direct funding — a smaller amount than the preliminary award of up to $6.4 billion that was announced earlier this year — while Texas Instruments was granted up to $1.61 billion and Amkor up to $407 million.Samsung plans to invest $37 billion over the next few years to ramp up chip development…

French authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection to an immense international child pornography ring following an investigation launched last year by the National Gendarmerie. Gendarmes, the police force responsible for fighting cyber crimes in France, revealed Thursday that they have seized some 122 computers, 152 smartphones, and 330 other digital media devices containing 375,000 photos and 156,000 videos totaling 217 terabytes of data as it dismantled a large-scale international child pornography operation. So far, 95 people have been arrested in France in connection to the case, notably including the director of a youth organisation, a sports instructor, and even a deputy…

The Trump brand has weakened and fundamentals are far belowgetty Very bad news. The Trump brand has topped out. Sure, he is President-elect, but the political reality of a three-branch government just upended his first major attempt to rule. It shows his campaign promises are not assured. Issues like deporting millions of residents and their families, and increasing tariffs, even on important trading partners like Canada and Mexico. The House and Senate, with their small Republican majorities, have control over most of what Trump wants to do. Therefore, the initial House defeat of the Trump/Musk bill sets the stage for…

Rose Damen, the third-generation scion overseeing Damen Shipyards’ superyacht arm, is looking to secure more orders from Asia. She especially sees opportunities in Singapore, home to about 1,650 single family offices. One thing Rose Damen learned while working in high finance before joining her family’s superyacht builder is that if one wants high returns, then shipbuilding is probably not the best investment. Shipbuilders typically have high inventory levels, which lower their profit margins to single digits, unlike the double-digit profit margins seen in some luxury goods makers, according to Damen, managing director of Netherlands-based Damen Yachting. “If you want to…

Cargo theft is a growing problem in the United States. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Cargo theft by fraud is a growing freight industry issue and has resulted in a massive increase in cargo loss claims in recent years. Craig Leinauer, Director of Inland Marine claims at Travelers Insurance, says that strategic theft is an alarming new trend. While straight theft (the physical taking of the truck and trailer or cargo from where it’s parked) remains the number one method for cargo theft, it’s strategic theft (the use of trickery or deception) that has seen the biggest increases (1455%) in the past…

MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor shared Friday a proposal for establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve. The proposal suggests that such a Bitcoin (BTC) reserve could generate between $16 and $81 trillion in wealth for the U.S. Treasury, potentially offering a path to offset the national debt. The proposal projects digital capital markets growth from $2 trillion to $280 trillion, with U.S. investors capturing the majority stake. A strategic digital asset policy can strengthen the US dollar, neutralize the national debt, and position America as the global leader in the 21st-century digital economy—empowering millions of businesses, driving growth, and creating trillions in…