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As crypto’s 2nd largest exchange tetters on the edge, investigations reveal a now all too familiar story of disproportionate reliance on illiquid assets of questionable real-world value. origin »
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ConstitutionDAO is a true underdog story that gave the world an idea of what DAOs, a new form of blockchain-based community, can accomplish in the future. For those not familiar with the saga, here’s what happened.
2021-12-13 05:00 | |
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An entire community today is shivering in fear, and across the world hundreds of millions of people are living a few moments of horror. The story too familiar. The blanket... The post Boris Johnson, The Terrorist? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-11-30 23:41 | |
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Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra is reportedly on the verge of losing another one of its partners after Paypal pulled out of a key meeting in Washington on Thursday. According to the Financial Times, all 28 supporters of Facebook’s digital currency project were set to meet and discuss the ways in which Libra could overcome scrutiny from regulators.
2019-10-4 11:10 | |
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Dyson, maker of very pretty, very effective, and very expensive gadgets that blow air around, today announced its latest air purifying fan, the Pure Cryptomic. Though you might be compelled to think the fan mines bitcoin while providing you with a nice cool breeze, you’d thankfully be mistaken.
2019-10-1 23:17 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. iOS 13 brought both major and minor changes to the iPhone interface, and a lot of the things we’re used to seeing have shifted places.
2019-9-28 02:58 | |
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‘Big Four’ accounting firm KPMG has revealed that 83 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 it surveyed were interested in the future of blockchain tokens — despite sickeningly poor market performance over the past two years.
2019-9-25 15:59 | |
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Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that scored above 90 percent on an 8th grade science test and 80 percent on a 12th-grade exam.
2019-9-24 11:42 | |
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Welp, that didn’t take long. Within days of Apple launching its Arcade game subscription services, Google’s responded with a rough Android equivalent called Play Pass. Still, while the two seem similar on the surface, they’re actually quite different — and that’s to Google’s benefit.
2019-9-24 01:03 | |
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Apple‘s finally releasing Arcade, its gaming subscription service, later this week. One of the things it’s hyped up in the run-up to the release has been the sheer variety of games on offer. It’s a cunning strategy: most of the gaming store wars thus far have pivoted on the number of familiar titles exclusive to the platform.
2019-9-17 02:46 | |
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It’s a situation I’m all too familiar with from my years working in the London start-up scene. It is a dog-eat-dog environment where it came to attracting, poaching, and holding on to talent.
2019-9-12 14:10 | |
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The data-stealing iPhone exploits detailed by Google last week may been used for state-sponsored campaigns targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China‘s autonomous region of Xinjiang. “The websites were part of a campaign to target the religious group by infecting an iPhone with malicious code simply by visiting a booby-trapped web page,” TechCrunch revealed, citing sources familiar with the matter.
2019-9-2 08:45 | |
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Canon just announced two new cameras with 32. 5-megapixel crop sensors: the 90D and the M6 Mark II. Both snappers share the same features with differences in design. While the 90D carries on with Canon’s familiar D-series body design, the M6 Mark II has a mirrorless body with a 3-inch touch screen and no opticalviewfinder.
2019-8-28 08:55 | |
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Google’s gotten a lot of grief for its messaging strategy, and rightly so. While Facebook and Apple have seen their messaging platforms become indispensable to users and businesses alike, Google has launched a litany of apps whose pithy names (Buzz, Wave, Allo, Hangouts, and the list goes on) couldn’t save them from the dustbin of chat history.
2019-8-25 19:00 | |
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Despite owning more Bitcoin that most of us could possible imagine, the story of how the joint owners of the Gemini cryptocurrency trading platform first got into the digital asset space is all too familiar.
2019-8-23 01:00 | |
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Ever made a typo in an email so bad that your life flashed before your eyes as you sent it? Worry not, Google‘s making sure it doesn’t happen again with a new update for Gmail that’ll point out basic spellings and grammar mistakes as you type.
2019-8-21 09:43 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been announced launch of a new blockchain and it’s called project “Venus. ” I’m not sure why it chose that name because Venus has no moons. Sad. In an announcement published this morning, Binance described Venus as an “initiative to develop localized stablecoins and digital assets pegged to fiat currencies across the globe.
2019-8-19 15:16 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! When it comes to photography, I’m obsessed with framing and symmetry. I always strive to nail the composition straight from the camera, but it never hurts to have some extra pixels in case I need to do some cropping.
2019-8-15 15:32 | |
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Just days after Coinbase announced the removal of support for Zcash for UK customers, reports suggest the cryptocurrency exchange is parting ways with banking mainstay Barclays. Sources familiar with the matter told CoinDesk that Barclays is no longer working with Coinbase.
2019-8-14 11:39 | |
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Samsung doesn’t slow down. It’s only been half a year since Samsung announced the Galaxy Watch Active, but it’s already getting ready to release the Active 2. It’ll start at $280 when it launches on September 27, but Samsung is keeping the earlier model around at a lower price.
2019-8-6 21:15 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! One of the disadvantages of owning a MacBook Air and getting into street photography in my free time is that I’m always short on storage space.
2019-8-1 11:41 | |
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British game development studio, Ustwo, announced it’s working on the third part of the hit mobile game Monument Valley. The company declared this via a tweet related to a job posting of a game director.
2019-8-1 10:22 | |
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The Russian surveillanceware saga continues. Canadian cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of Android surveillance tools originating from Russia. The kicker? The spyware can be found in numerous fake apps disguised as legitimate software from Google, Pornhub, Skype, and many other familiar brands.
2019-7-25 13:09 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter, the CFTC is looking into whether BitMEX broke the rules by allowing American customers to trade on the platform, which is not registered with the agency.
2019-7-19 15:06 | |
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It feels like we’re finally getting to the magical stage where technology is catching up with our imagination — which of course only means one thing: cyborgs! This might still sound futuristic, but they’re actually already walking among us, and many more of us could become cyborgs in the coming years, if plans by people like Elon Musk pan out.
2019-6-27 15:49 | |
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A drug-smuggling kingpin has been using west Dublin teenagers as young as 14 to store large amounts of narcotics bought with cryptocurrency via the dark web, reports Irish local media The Journal citing sources familiar with the matter.
2019-6-27 14:33 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Oh daaaamn, you best move quickly: Best Buy is running a limited time flash sale on MacBooks. At the time of writing, the deal has under 14 hours left, so if you’ve been on the hunt for a new Apple laptop, this is your chance.
2019-6-19 18:09 | |
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You can tell a lot about the direction of a company by looking at its tech stack. A great example of this comes from Facebook, which today announced the creation of a brand new open-source DHCP server, as it had outgrown the existing products.
2019-5-28 17:21 | |
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Two-factor authentication is annoying. Getting flustered because you have to find your phone and tap on a prompt every time you log into your accounts from a new device is peak first-world problems.
2019-5-24 01:17 | |
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There’s a new form of artificial intelligence that mimics Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with alarming accuracy. Vitalik Boterin is a bot powered by machine learning (ML). It regularly tweets unique nuggets of wisdom that read eerily similar to the real deal, like this one.
2019-5-22 20:00 | |
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Microsoft has officially announced a preview of its Microsoft Edge browser for the macOS. Microsoft originally unveiled plans for the browser at its annual BUILD developers conference held on May 6.
2019-5-21 11:03 | |
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ByteDance, the world likes and preferences. A (rough) translation of its iTunes description reads: Fly chat is an interest-based social app. Here you will find familiar [features like] chat, audio and video calls.
2019-5-20 15:20 | |
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So you may have heard about a little fight going on in the YouTube community, between two beauty gurus named Tati Westbrook and James Charles. The drama tornado has engulfed aspects of the internet that aren’t even remotely related to the two, but one of the reasons may be an organized and inquisitive network of channels devoted to drama.
2019-5-18 03:05 | |
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Contrary to what reports from last year suggested, English Championship football club Hull City AFC won’t be getting acquired by cryptocurrency crowd funding platform SportyCo. According to sources familiar with the matter, SportyCo’s managing director, Marko Filej, met with the club’s owners and agreed on a price.
2019-5-1 17:41 | |
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While the world’s focused on the latest Avenger’s flick, an international team of scientists have potentially unlocked the super powers of another familiar Marvel character: Magneto. Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory, Oakland University in Michigan, and Fudan University in China have discovered a quantum-level exploit that has the potential to give engineers greater control over the magnetic properties of certain metals.
2019-4-27 23:49 | |
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Samsung is reportedly looking to develop its own proprietary blockchain network as well as its own token some time in the future. According to an exclusive CoinDesk Korea report, which cited a person “familiar with Samsung’s internal situation,” the South Korean electronics giant’s blockchain task force is building an Ethereum-based blockchain mainnet.
2019-4-25 12:34 | |
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It was just last October that Microsoft released the Surface Headphones, its first real foray into headphones. It turns out the company might not be stopping there. Microsoft is reportedly planning on building its own “true wireless” headphones in the vein of Apple’s AirPods.
2019-4-16 20:56 | |
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HTC unveiled its long-anticipated Viveport Infinity VR gaming service this week. It comes with a $13 monthly ($99 annually) fee and more than 600 titles you can play with unlimited access. The selection, price, and experience are all pretty good – but we’re hoping HTC is just getting started.
2019-4-6 01:17 | |
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We seem to be at a crossroads when it comes to the future of tech. Advancements in fields like artificial intelligence raise dangers we need to collectively address as a society, before it’s too late.
2019-4-5 19:08 | |
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There’s big movements going on at Apple‘s audio wing. First, the Airpods were updated. And now? The Apple-owned Beats by Dre is getting its first pair of true wireless earbuds: the Powerbeats Pro.
2019-4-4 14:22 | |
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Machine learning algorithms process vast quantities of data and spot correlations, trends and anomalies, at levels far beyond even the brightest human mind. But as human intelligence relies on accurate information, so too do machines.
2019-3-24 19:24 | |
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Global payment services provider and Fortune 500 company, Visa, is showing signs that cryptocurrency and blockchain will be part of the company‘s future. According to a job posting on recruitment platform SmartRecruiters, Visa is looking for an individual passionate about payments and cryptocurrency, and is already well-connected in the cryptocurrency and fintech industry.
2019-3-19 12:26 | |
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Yes, the day has finally come – you can now actually buy one of the three brand-spanking new Samsung Galaxy S10s. These phones are: The S10e – a phone for the budget-conscious individual starts at $750 The S10 – the old classic that we’re all familiar with starts at $900 The S10+ – the huge version for folks with big hands starts at $1000 The 5G version of the S10 (the wonderfully named S10 5G) is not being released in this wave, so stay tuned for updates on that.
2019-3-8 13:02 | |
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Suing Purdue Pharma for the opioid abuse epidemic is like suing McDonald’s for your obesity or diabetes. Reuters had the exclusive story about the opioid crisis Monday: “OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000 lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the United States, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
2019-3-5 01:05 | |
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The story of Lyft’s rise to glory is quite a tale. The ride-hailing service filed to go public on Friday with a potential valuation of $20 billion to $25 billion, with a familiar prospectus which shows rising revenue which could one day turn into immense future profits as well as overall losses which could send the company under without a cash injection.
2019-3-4 18:32 | |
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Tech marketers have been using celebrity endorsements for decades – Microsoft and Apple have relied on this method to flock their goods to the masses since the ’80s – and the cryptocurrency industry, although nascent, is no different.
2019-2-14 15:10 | |
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The most popular wireless speakers tend to be part of a walled garden. Sonos, Google, and Apple’s speakers force you into their own wireless protocols, with few or no inputs for wired sources.
2019-1-31 20:59 | |
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Last night, several people on Twitter and Reddit based in China complained that Microsoft’s Bing search engine was inaccessible; hours later, the company confirmed that the search engine was indeed blocked across the country.
2019-1-24 10:48 | |
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When in doubt, blame the robots. As Facebook has fallen from grace and struggled to reconcile its role in spreading propaganda and stoking political anger, the company has proposed a familiar solution: If the algorithm has failed, let’s just build a better algorithm.
2018-12-23 04:00 | |
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Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas.
2018-12-21 04:00 | |
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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mersky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.
Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.
Bitget, top global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, is responding to trader demand and is to list SKALE (SKL). The SKALE Network is designed to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Ethereum-compatible applications.
VALR, Africa's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched perpetual futures trading, featuring the world's first Bitcoin and USDT perpetual futures paired against the South African Rand.
Controversial crypto exchange Binance has appointed Richard Teng as its new CEO. The appointment follows the resignation of former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao who pleaded guilty to charges levied against him by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will reportedly step down as CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Since its 2009 inception, Bitcoin has heralded a shift from traditional to decentralized finance (DeFi), signaling the future of financial markets. Today, the crypto landscape extends beyond Bitcoin, with multiple projects contributing to a dynamic ecosystem of financial innovation.