AMAZON + ONLYFANS FOUNDER WANTS TO BUY TIKTOK 📱💸 Tim Stokely (yep, the OnlyFans founder) just made a last-minute bid to buy TikTok — with crypto backing. So did Amazon.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: Stokely’s new startup, Zoop, teamed up with the Hedera crypto foundation to try and buy TikTok from Chinese owner ByteDance. Their pitch? Let creators own more of the platform’s value — and keep it in U.S. hands. Amazon has sent in a last minute bid.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: TikTok has until April 5 to find a buyer or face a U.S. ban over national security concerns. President Trump’s team is weighing offers — including a surprise late bid from Amazon, per reports.
Source: Reuters
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FUTURES
TARIFFS DROP. MARKETS WHIPLASH. YOUR WALLET? BUCKLE UP 💥📉
President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are here — and Wall Street is spinning.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: The U.S. just dropped a 10% universal import tariff — plus steeper hits for major trade partners: 34% on China, 24% on Japan, 20% on the EU, and 25% on foreign cars starting tonight. Trump says it’s about “fairness.” Markets call it a shake-up.
—> MARKET REACTION: Stocks were a rollercoaster. The S&P 500 finished up 0.7%, but only after swinging wildly between a 1.1% drop and a 1.1% jump. Tesla soared 5.3% after rumors Musk will step back from his government role. Meanwhile, consumer stocks like Lululemon (-8.8%) and Ugg (-9.3%) sank in after-hours trading.
—> WHY YOU CARE: Tariffs are a tax on imports — which means higher prices for everyday stuff: clothes, electronics, cars, groceries. And the market sees inflation risk rising.
Source: Associated Press, Wall Street Journal
CRYPTO
BITCOIN SWINGS AS TARIFFS LAND. 🇺🇸📉 BTC jumped to $87.8K during Trump’s Rose Garden speech — then dropped just as fast.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: Bitcoin spiked mid-speech as Trump announced sweeping tariffs — including 25 percent on all foreign-made cars. But within the hour, BTC slid back to $85.5K, down 1.1 percent. Markets are jittery, crypto included.
Source: Decrypt
GAMESTOP GOES FULL BITCOIN MODE 🕹️➡️₿ The meme-stock king just raised $1.5B to start stacking sats. For real.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: GameStop announced a $1.5 billion private debt raise through convertible notes — a fancy way of saying it got cash now, and investors can trade it for stock later. The goal? Start buying Bitcoin. It’s official: the video game retailer is now a crypto player.
—> WHY THEY’RE DOING IT: GameStop says the move will help fund operations and “optimize investment returns.” Translation: they think Bitcoin’s a better bet than just selling games. It follows last week’s plan to scoop up $1.3 billion in BTC, though there’s no timeline yet.
Source: Fortune
SPACE
SPACE IS GETTING CROWDED — AND DANGEROUS 🛰️💥 A new ESA doc warns: 70% of all satellites ever launched are still up there — plus millions of junk fragments.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: The European Space Agency’s short film, “Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?”, says Earth orbit is turning into a scrapyard. Between old satellites, rocket shards, and collision debris, space is getting risky — especially in orbits critical for internet, GPS, and climate monitoring.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: One shard traveling at 17,000 mph can take out a working satellite. A crash between two? Catastrophic. And with mega-constellations like Starlink growing fast, the risk is only rising.
—> THE FUTURIST TAKE: This isn’t just orbital clutter — it’s infrastructure at risk. The sky is filling up, and without smart cleanup, space becomes a no-go zone. Sustainability isn’t just for Earth anymore.
Source: Space.com
SPEED
THE GLOBAL 8000: THE NEW KING OF SPEED 🛩️💨 Get ready to go from LA to NYC in 3 hours. Soon, you can fly faster than ever before.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: The Bombardier Global 8000, the fastest civilian aircraft since the Concorde, will take to the skies in 2025. Flying at Mach 0.94 (715 mph), it’ll cut your flight time drastically: NYC to London in 5 hours, LA to NYC in 3 hours.
—> WHY YOU CARE: The Global 8000 isn’t just fast — it’s luxury in the sky. With a range of 8,000 nautical miles, it can take off from smaller airports, cutting travel time even more. Think less time in airports, more time in the sky.
—> THE FUTURIST TAKE: Speed is back in a big way. The Concorde made history. The Global 8000 is rewriting it — no compromises on luxury, speed, or convenience.
Source: Interesting Engineering
ONE MORE THING
YOUR LIFE. SCANNED. REBUILT. PLAYABLE IN VR. 🧠🎄🕹️ What if your kids could explore your childhood bedroom — or their backyard tree house? — in virtual reality? Hear your voice? Watch your old iPod play the songs you loved? With new tech from MIT and beyond — that future’s here.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: A new system called InteRecon — built by researchers at MIT, ETH Zurich, and HKUST — can take a real-world object, scan it with a phone, and recreate it in mixed reality with working buttons, screens, sounds, motion, even vibes. It’s not just a model. It’s an interactive digital heirloom. It’s experiential home videos… but with VR immersive experiences….
—> WHY YOU CARE: Think time capsules you can walk through. A VR archive of your childhood. A preserved copy of your parent’s favorite Christmas ornament that still glows. Your kid’s first toy, forever playable. InteRecon is emotional memory, made mechanical — and interactive.
—> THE TECH BEHIND IT: The system scans objects, maps physical controls, recreates behaviors using AI, and lets you assign content (like music, videos, or sounds). The interface works inside a VR headset like the Meta Quest, turning every object into an Interactive Digital Item (IDI) you can experience, upgrade, and share.
—> THE FUTURIST TAKE: We’ve reached the point where your memories can be reconstructed. Tangible nostalgia becomes functional media. In the age of AI + MR, your story isn’t just remembered — it’s re-experienced.
Sources: New Atlas, arXiv preprint
With gratitude,
Kev
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