Rihanna has received a rare honor in Bridgetown, her hometown.

During the presidential inauguration event in Heroes Square on Monday night, Barbados proclaimed the ‘Diamonds’ singer a National Hero, symbolizing the country’s transition to a Commonwealth republic.

To loud applause, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced the 33-year-hero old’s status.

Mottley summoned Rihanna out in front of the audience to congratulate her.

“On behalf of a grateful nation and an even prouder people, we therefore present to you, to the designee, a National Hero of Barbados, ambassador Robyn Rihanna Fenty,” Mottley added, referring to the singer by her full name.

“May you continue to shine like a diamond and bring honor to your nation by your works, by your actions,” she said, referring to Rihanna’s chart-topping track from 2012.

Prince Charles, who was also present at the event, congratulated the pop star personally.

According to Forbes magazine, the Barbadian entrepreneur became a billionaire early this year.

The magazine reported earlier this year that Rihanna is the wealthiest female artist and the second-richest woman in entertainment, after Oprah Winfrey.

The 33-year-old, who hasn’t released a new album in five years, is worth an estimated $1.7 billion thanks to her cosmetics line Fenty Beauty.

According to Forbes, Fenty Beauty is worth $2.8 billion.

Through her Savage x Fenty lingerie brand, the singer has also committed time to grow her business empire.

Paris Hilton is all set to have a spectacular wedding.

On Tuesday, the 40-year-old entrepreneur went on The Tonight Show and revealed a few facts about her upcoming wedding. Hilton, engaged to Carter Reum, told host Jimmy Fallon that the wedding planning process has been “very stressful” and that picking a wedding gown is “basically the only thing” she’s done so far.

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She said that “It’s gonna be like a three-day affair. We have a lot happening,” further stating that she’s “not a bridezilla at all.”

“Lots of dresses, probably 10. I love outfit changes,” she added, joking that Reum, 40, would most likely stick to one outfit since “he’s not as high-maintenance as I am.”

The wedding will also be recorded as part of Hilton’s upcoming Peacock docuseries, Paris in Love.

“I just feel like for my documentary, This Is Paris, it ended in a way in which, you know, it was amazing but I just feel like I wanted my fans to see that I found my Prince Charming and my happy fairytale ending,” the socialite explained.

After a year of dating, Reum proposed to Hilton on February 13th. On a private island, the couple was celebrating Hilton’s 40th birthday when the author proposed with a mega-carat, emerald-cut diamond ring created by designer Jean Dousset, the great-great-grandson of renowned French jeweler Louis Cartier.

“When you find your soulmate, you don’t just know it. You feel it,” Hilton captioned her engagement photos on Instagram.

“My love and I have been together since our first date and for my birthday, he arranged a special trip to tropical paradise. As we walked to dinner along the beach, Carter led us to a cabana adorned with flowers and dropped to one knee. I said yes, yes to forever. There’s no one I’d rather spend forever with.”

Paris Hilton is excited to start a family with Reum, in addition to looking forward to her wedding day. The actress addressed rumors she was pregnant in a recent This Is Paris podcast episode titled ‘This Is… I’m Pregnant??’

“I am not pregnant.” She said, “Not yet.” “My [wedding] dress is being made right now, so I want to make sure it looks gorgeous and fits perfectly. So definitely waiting for that part.”

“I can’t wait to have children in 2022. But like I said, I am just preparing for the wedding right now.”

Facebook F8 is facebook’s annual developer conference which started in 2007 as a Developer hackathon and continued to grow. This year the F8 conference was held virtually and Facebook announced its new set of tools to help developers find innovative solutions for connecting people. Messenger API for Instagram is now available to developers which means that now businesses can integrate Instagram messaging with their applications and websites enabling them to have meaningful conversations with customers and potentially increase their sales. WhatsApp Business API is now getting faster onboarding process from weeks to just a few minutes, and new messaging features such as list messages and reply buttons with just one tap. The API can also provide business information such as product information. Login Connect with messenger is going to allow users to log in to apps and websites and now they will be able to chat directly with the business. The Facebook Business Suite is now going to integrate 3rd party business apps which are built by developers and will be available on Facebook Business Extention. Facebook has also made a mark in the Augmented Reality world with SparkAR and Smart Glasses planned for the future. Spark AR with over 600,000 creators, is a tool that lets developers create their own Facebook and Instagram Filters and now the developers will be able to use it for video calls with a Multipeer API. Facebook also announced that they are making PyTorch the default framework for building their AI and Machine Learning models. Keeping its tradition to diversify the tech Industry facebook donated $250,000 to a nonprofit ‘Girls in tech’ to focus on diversity and inclusion and empower women in the tech industry.

 

It sure has been a roller coaster ride in the crypto world for the last few weeks and now we are seeing a market that is recovering from a dip, or is it? It is amazing to see how our favorite entrepreneur Elon Musk has gotten into crypto and boy has he shaken the industry. A single tweet from Elon is driving up and down the crypto markets but it is not limited to tweets only, In February 2021 Tesla bought $1.5 Billion worth in bitcoin and later said that it is accepting bitcoin for Tesla payments which also drove the market over the moon and brought stability to the market. Musk also drove the market and brought immense fame to the crypto market with the legendary tweet that read, “DogeCoin to the moon” which gave rise to a lot of memes and increased the Market Capital of Crypto and especially dogecoin. None the less the same Tesla has now said that it is not accepting crypto over environmental concerns of bitcoin mining and the latest of this story is that Elon is now talking to North American Bitcoin Miners over the environmental concerns which again has brought stability to the market. The crypto world is highly volatile right now, one should only invest with caution and the amount which he or she can afford to lose as also stated by Elon Himself that “Cryptocurrency is promising, but please invest with caution” Before his SNL live on 7th May 2021.

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