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The Mets kick off their postseason Friday night — and Starling Marte and Francisco Alvarez will be along for the wild-card ride. The injured outfield and rookie slugger are on the 26-man roster for the opening round against the Padres, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed on Friday. Marte, working his way back from a fractured right middle finger, participated in baseball activities on Thursday. He hasn’t played in a month, though the Mets seem to believe he can contribute against the Padres. Starling Marte has not played since Sept. 6 due to a broken finger.Michelle Farsi / New York Post…

The US has introduced sweeping export controls that will severely complicate efforts by Chinese companies to develop cutting-edge technologies with military applications, in one of the toughest actions President Joe Biden has taken against China.The commerce department on Friday unveiled restrictions that will make it very hard for Chinese companies to obtain or manufacture advanced computer chips and will slow their progress in artificial intelligence. The measures are also designed to make it much tougher for China to develop supercomputers with military applications that range from modelling nuclear weapons to development of hypersonic weapons.The controls mark a new attempt to…

Mary Sharp claimed British Gas refused to give her a heater after her boiler broke and engineers reportedly told her conflicting information about a missing part needed to fix it A 92-year-old woman claimed she was left without heating and hot water for five days – and says British Gas “ignored” her pleas for help. Mary Sharp has lived in her Clackmannanshire home in Scotland for 28 years but the past week has proven to be among her most testing times. When her gas stopped working on September 29, the pensioner, who had worked on a dairy farm since the…

During the early European session, the global cryptocurrency market capitalization fell 1.39% to $957.46 billion. With a 24-hour volume of $3.11 billion, DeFi accounted for 5.55% of the entire cryptocurrency market. This represents 92.59% of the total 24-hour volume in the cryptocurrency market, or $51.82 billion.Investors in the United States factored in the surprisingly positive non-farm payroll and unemployment figures during the European session. As a result of this news, the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, tumbled 3.13% for the day.While the second most valuable cryptocurrency, Ethereum, ended up falling 2.92% to trade at $1,334.US Non-farm Payroll & Unemployment Rate US Non-farm Payroll: According to…

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has apologized for punching his teammate, Jordan Poole, at practice on Wednesday, said team general manager Bob Myers. While Golden State is expected to hand down discipline to Green, he is not expected to miss any games over the punch.  “These things happen. Nobody likes it, we don’t condone it, but it happens,” Myers said, according to ESPN. “Draymond apologized to the team. Jordan was there in the room. … As far as any suspension, punishment, fine, we will handle that internally.”WARRIORS DRAYMOND GREEN ‘FORCEFULLY STRUCK’ JORDAN POOLE AT PRACTICE DURING ALTERCATION: REPORTThe altercation reportedly…

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 Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.__________Security newsA new Visa report found that, beyond attacks on traditional currency, threat actors are employing new tactics to defraud cryptocurrency users, including new malware focused on browser extension wallets for crypto users as well as innovation in phishing and social engineering schemes. Crypto bridge services are also a target. From January through February 2022, three sizeable thefts exploiting vulnerabilities in various bridge services netted cyber thieves over $400 million, they said.Legal newsBitstamp announced that it was appointed by…

New York Mayor Eric Adams declared a city emergency on Friday in the wake of a “humanitarian crisis” that has brought thousands of asylum-seekers to the five boroughs.Emergency Executive Order 224 directs “all relevant city agencies to coordinate their efforts to respond to the asylum seeker humanitarian crisis and construct the city’s Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers,” according to a City Hall statement. “We’re talking potentially 100,000 people going into next year, months away,” Adams told reporters.New York City has opened 42 hotels as emergency shelters and placed 5,500 migrant children into public schools, since “this humanitarian crisis began”…

CNN  —  Pebbles, the world’s oldest dog, has died at the age of 22, according to Guinness World Records. The record-breaking toy fox terrier died of natural causes at her home in Taylors, South Carolina, on Monday, said Guinness in a news release. The elderly pooch was five months shy of her 23rd birthday, according to the release. Pebbles was only recognized as the world’s oldest living dog earlier this year. In April, Guinness had initially named a 21-year old chihuahua named TobyKeith as the oldest living dog – but when Pebbles’ owners saw the news, they realized their dog…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday in response to the continued arrival of illegal migrants from southern states.More than 17,000 migrants have been bused to the city since the spring, a small fraction of the migrant encounters at the border over that timeframe.Adams said that one in five of people in the city’s shelter system is a migrant, which is creating a “crisis,” he said.NEW YORK CITY RECEIVES 2 MORE BUSLOADS OF MIGRANT ‘ASYLUM SEEKERS’ “This is a humanitarian crisis that started with violence and instability in South America and is being accelerated by…