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Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us

When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? Or when was the last time you noticed that your Google search had been modified to suit variables like your current location and personal interests? These micro-events happen on a daily basis for most of us, and are reminders of how valuable and how ubiquitous our data really is. дальше »

2018-11-3 21:30


5 quick tricks to improve your Amazon listing’s ranking on Google

It’s over. Amazon won. For now, the massive online retail giant stands atop every other ecommerce platform, leaving everyone else to fight over the scraps left in its shadow. If you’re doing ecommerce, you’re probably selling on Amazon (or you’re in one of the few niches that hasn’t been absorbed into its market-distorting gravitational field). дальше »

2018-10-14 11:30


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Singapore’s financial regulator wants its banks and blockchains to be friends

Singapore’s financial regulator has revealed it will help local cryptocurrency firms set up traditional bank accounts, to help boost the country’s fintech economy. “What we are trying to do is to bring the banks and cryptocurrency fintech startups together to see if there is some understanding they can reach,” Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon told Bloomberg. дальше »

2018-10-11 13:52


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Kraken Invokes The Fatal Attraction Defense

We’re not lawyers, but there are a couple things we learned from watching legal dramas: First, never talk to the cops without an attorney. Second, never consent to a search. And third—this should go without saying—don’t call attention to yourself by sending passive-aggressive tweets to an Attorney General who’s already out for your blood. дальше »

2018-9-21 23:28


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Mozilla’s new Firefox Reality browser brings the web to your VR headset

Mozilla has launched Firefox Reality, a web browser custom built for use with VR headsets. Version 1. 0 is now available for free in Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores. The goal with this project, which the organization has been working on for years, is to make it easy to enjoy 2D and immersive content on the web as easily as possible. дальше »

2018-9-19 08:10


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Brave Browser Partners With Qwant To Eliminate Awkward Conversations

A new partnership may spell the beginning of the end for data tracking and the current advertising model. Brave, a crypto-based web browser, has recently announced a partnership with Qwant, a privacy-focused European search engine, to eliminate intrusive ads – and awkward conversations with your spouse about why your Amazon suggestions are mainly Japanese comics […] The post Brave Browser Partners With Qwant To Eliminate Awkward Conversations appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-9-14 21:03


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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Bitcoin: Can cryptocurrency help turn the tide in a volatile currency market?

Sometimes standing up for bitcoin also means standing up for your homeland and fellow citizens, in search of a better way. The latter display of bravery is embedded in the recently launched Let’s Talk Bitcoin! That’s where LTB correspondent Christian Garcia steps up with a report from a country in crisis, reminding listeners about the дальше »

2018-6-23 23:49


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