~Bitcoin News of the Day

• David Bailey, one of the aides of President Trump’s cryptocurrency campaign and CEO of BTC Inc., reported on this change, noting that it was a direct effect of Trump’s rise to power. On social media, Bailey stated: I was told today by someone very much in the know that President Xi has completely changed his thinking on Bitcoin in response to President Trump’s leadership.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• Washington imposed new sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank on Thursday that prevent the state-controlled lender from handling any new energy-related transactions that touch the U.S. financial system. The U.S. also targeted around 50 other Russian banks and the Bank of Russia's System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS).

~Politics_and_Law

• “People are afraid of walking the streets right now; there’s a lot of fear … a lot of fear,” said Sanchez, who’s also a member of the American Business Immigration Coalition, which advocates for business-friendly immigration reform. “And that’s where it starts. The employees will start getting worried and say, ‘Should I go to work? Should I take a chance?’ The big concern is that restaurants will close without employees, and this is just one industry: There are millions of people working who are undocumented.”

~Stacker_Sports News

• Details of these closed-door meetings always end up in the media, and usually the same way: After it ends, players call their agents to talk (or vent) about it, and then it’s the agents who spin things to the media to put their player in the best light. Occasionally, a player or coach will leak things for strategic purposes, but one way or another, the contents of the meeting tend to get out.

~Tech & ~Science

• Niantic, the company behind the popular game, has revealed that it will use data scraped from its AR apps to construct a "large geospatial model" (LGM) that would enable robots and other devices to better navigate the physical world — even if they only have limited information.
• The announcement, made Nov. 12 in a blog post on Niantic’s website, reveals that the company has drawn data from more than 10 million scanned locations worldwide, with users adding around 1 million more new scans each week.

~History with Mystery

• Shortly after his inauguration as governor of California in 1967, Reagan created the privately financed and staffed Governor’s Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control, which made nearly 2,000 recommendations on ways to deliver state services “in the most efficient, expeditious and economical manner.

~Entertainment World

• Rosenworcel made bridging the digital divide a top priority, including seeking to expand broadband access to rural America, and instituting a broadband affordability program. It was also under leadership that the FCC launched a space bureau as policy shifts toward space-based communications.

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