2020-7-23 21:00 |
“Romantic Hacker” will feature a K-pop star whose story is based on the hack of a fictitious crypto exchange.
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Mexican officials have been forced to free Ovidio Guzman Lopez – the son of Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo whose real name is Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera – from custody after cartel gunmen turned Sinaloa into an urban war zone.
2019-10-21 15:06 | |
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Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, whose work detecting exoplanets recently earned him a share in the Nobel prize for physics, says humans will never migrate beyond our own solar system. Maybe it’s time we started taking this whole “climate change” thing seriously.
2019-10-12 21:28 | |
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If there’s one person whose intellectual property you don’t wanna fuck with (other than Nintendo ya know) — it’s Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, the brother of the now-late drug overlord Pablo Escobar.
2019-10-10 15:58 | |
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Wizards of the Coast today announced the 22 October launch of its all new My Little Pony crossover card set. Y’all! Princess Twilight Sparkle is coming to M:tG! Ahem. The three-card, silver-bordered set will be featured along side a My Little Pony-themed play mat and four special card sleeves.
2019-10-4 01:17 | |
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In the words of a famous philosopher whose name I can’t recall, “Wikipedia is the best thing ever — anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject… so you know you’re getting the best possible information.
2019-9-25 13:47 | |
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Bike thieves are a brazen bunch. In NYC, cyclists who have to lock up outside have two primary approaches: get a cheap bike that you won’t cry about when it’s stolen, or lock up like a pro. But thieves are also incredibly opportunistic.
2019-9-25 04:02 | |
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Yesterday, market research firm Canalys published a report stating Chinese search giant Baidu has surpassed Google in terms of smart speaker distribution worldwide – which means a company whose products you may never have seen outside China is outselling the big G.
2019-8-27 10:34 | |
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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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“Rot in hell you pervert,” wrote one. “Go to hell, child rapist,” said another. These were all tweets directed to Jeffrey Epstein, a publicist at the Walt Disney Company, whose sole connection to the late disgraced financier is his name.
2019-8-12 13:57 | |
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Social media discourse is generally unhinged. But for those who follow US politics, simply opening the Twitter or Facebook app is like jumping into a swirling vortex of rage and blame. It’s as though we’ve forgotten how to communicate with one another as mature, professional adults.
2019-8-9 22:59 | |
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An explosive article in Motherboard alleges that contractors working for Microsoft are listening to the conversations of Skype users conducted through the app’s real-time translation service. The piece, penned by cybersecurity reporter Joseph Cox, cites a trove of internal documentation, screenshots, and audio recordings obtained by the publication.
2019-8-8 19:25 | |
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Animals around the world are seeing their environments change. Climate change is causing heating and changes to weather patterns, the oceans are becoming more acidic, and previously undisturbed habitats are being altered and degraded by human activities.
2019-8-3 18:00 | |
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Three years ago in September 2016, Reliance, an Indian conglomerate with a market cap of some $115 billion, launched a new mobile carrier and broadband network in India called Jio. Today, it’s become the largest telco operator in India surpassing old horses like Bharati Airtel and Vodafone-Idea.
2019-7-29 09:03 | |
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As someone who is decidedly not a morning person, I had aspersions about reviewing the Anker Soundcore Wakey. After all, if audiophiles review headphones, and die-hard gamers review games, what business do I, a person whose snooze button has rubbed away into naught, have reviewing a high-tech alarm clock? I thought about that, and then I said to Anker’s PR person: “Ah, sod it.
2019-7-24 13:28 | |
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Samsung’s Space Monitor is a clever gadget whose sum is greater than its parts. On first glance, it’s simply a decent screen mounted on an innovative bracket. But it’s hard to overstate how huge an impact it’s had on my workflow as both a tech reviewer and a musician.
2019-7-23 22:39 | |
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In the continued campaign against “cool” depictions of tobacco use, Gears of War will apparently no longer include depictions of smoking — but there’s some confusion as apparently it wasn’t going to have any to begin with.
2019-7-16 02:02 | |
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US President Donald Trump, known for his complicated relationship with technology and his incessant need to share his ill-advised thoughts with the world, has admitted he’s not a fan of cryptocurrency.
2019-7-12 13:25 | |
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Facebook has recently outlined how it intends to clean up its content, making much of the fact that it has expunged 3.3 billion fake profiles in the last six months. After 18 months of mounting criticism, culminating in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s promise to break up so-called Big Tech – she is now a leading contender to become the Democratic presidential nominee – can we take Mark Zuckerberg’s promise that this is only the start at face value? To put it another way, can we trust the person whose stewardship of one of the world’s most powerful companies over the past… This story continues at The Next Web
2019-7-10 14:00 | |
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The GitHub account of Canonical Ltd. , the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked over the weekend on July 6. While the hacker’s identity remains unknown, they managed to compromise the account’s credentials to create 11 new empty repositories.
2019-7-8 10:40 | |
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HTC and HBO today announced an exclusive “Game of Thrones” VR experience will arrive on Viveport Infinity on May 31. Dubbed Beyond the Wall, the game is a VR-only experience that “transports users to the northern border of The Seven Kingdoms to fight and defend The Wall.
2019-5-30 21:40 | |
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Unless you’re obsessed, keeping up to date with audiophile hi-fi equipment is tough. There’s a never ending supply of generically-named companies combining some random letters and numbers, slapping them on a black cuboid, and then selling it for thousands of dollars.
2019-5-24 18:41 | |
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John Storyk, the founder of WSDG, an acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm, is a legend in the music world. He’s a world-class architect and acoustic designer whose built recording studios for everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Jay-Z.
2019-5-24 00:58 | |
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After a bunch of companies stopped trading with Huawei, the company is preparing for life after that. Most important of them all was Google, whose ban means the Chinese tech giant can’t use Android, Google Play Store, Play Services, and apps like Gmail for its upcoming devices.
2019-5-23 15:43 | |
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Throughout history, women in STEM have contributed massively to build the world as we know it today — from Rosalind Franklin, a chemist whose research helped reveal the components of DNA, to Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
2019-5-2 12:35 | |
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If you were hoping to splash your Bitcoin on luxury real estate in Dubai, you may have to wait a little longer. According to The Times, the world’s first luxury development to be sold using the cryptocurrency is on hold.
2019-4-29 12:32 | |
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Games make the perfect teaching environment for developers to train machine learning models in, but which game produces the strongest AI? You can put your money on DeepMind’s AlphaGo or OpenAI’s DotA 2-playing machine, but we’ll take whichever one is the first to master Magic: The Gathering – humanity’s hardest game.
2019-4-24 03:17 | |
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April 20th is a holy day for many who imbibe cannabis. For some, it’s just a great day to watch stoner flicks and smoke herb all day. Others view it with more import; especially those who consume cannabis medicinally.
2019-4-20 22:08 | |
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Data ethics is now a cause centire cohort of expert data ethicists have magically materialized. Why this sudden interest in data ethics? What is data ethics? Whose interests are the guidelines designed to serve? To understand what is going on, it’s necessary to take a step back and look at how the information landscape has unfolded.… This story continues at The Next Web
2019-4-16 11:25 | |
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University today unveiled a world’s first – a 3D print of a heart constructed from harvested human tissue and vessels. This technology, although in its formative stages, could potentially one day provide relief for patients whose lives are determined by the fickle whims of organ transplant lists.
2019-4-16 19:45 | |
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Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper is one of the few people who could make Facebook likable again. Turns out Facebook crypto could be added to the impressive list of companies Draper’s backed.
2019-4-13 11:49 | |
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Spotify tweeted an ad for its new partnership with Hulu, along with a comment about “budgets. ” Several people, including one particularly savage songwriter, pointed out the company shouldn’t be the one to talk about money when it offers such a paltry sum to the artists whose music it hosts.
2019-4-5 22:50 | |
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Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Brenda Milner, Martha Salcudean, Julie Payette, Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson. What do these names bring to mind? They are women whose pioneering work led the fight against cancer, ground-breaking discoveries about how brain cells live and die, and to the unveiling of the secrets of human memory.
2019-3-8 17:30 | |
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Devil May Cry V, the long-awaited return of the legendary action game series, oozes seriously sexy style and brings some fun action game chops. It’s got some rough spots, but even at its worst, DMC V gives you more flash and fun than any other game so far this year.
2019-3-6 21:09 | |
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Back in 1996 when the internet was primitive, a couple of San Francisco-based engineers were looking to solve the problem of saving websites from vanishing after they were altered or shut down.
2019-2-5 18:45 | |
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Ask an audio engineer what their biggest hurdle designing an awesome speaker is, and chances are it’s not a lack of knowledge or technology, but budget constraints. Any engineering team at a reputable audio company has the know-how to design an awesome speaker if price weren’t an issue.
2019-2-2 05:24 | |
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A lot happened in the world of paleontology in 2018. Some of the big events included some major fossil finds, a new understanding of our reptile ancestors and a major controversy whose outcome could rewrite human history.
2019-1-18 18:20 | |
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In 2017, a veritable civil war was fought between camps of Bitcoin believers: those who sought to keep its “block size” at 1MB, and those who wanted to increase it. Those looking for bigger blocks found themselves rallying behind a then-new cryptocurrency – a “hard fork” of Bitcoin called Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – whose premise rested on re-creating Bitcoin to mine 8MB blocks.
2019-1-17 20:01 | |
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This picture above, of an egg, has racked up the most likes of any single post on Instagram: 24 million and counting. And it beat the last record holder – a photo of model Kylie Jenner’s baby posted last February – by a whopping 6 million in just 10 days.
2019-1-14 11:10 | |
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to end 2018 on a high, bumping off Apple from the top spot and becoming the most valuable publicly traded US company. The Washington-based American multinational technology company, whose founders were Bill Gates and Paul Allen, has been a rival of Apple for some time within the computer industry.
2018-12-27 13:00 | |
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Amazon has been a good performer in 2018, and is up nearly 40 percent in the year. In September, the share price for it hit $2,000. The Seattle-based American electronic commerce company, whose CEO and founder is Jeff Bezos — America’s richest as noted by Forbes —was created in 1994.
2018-12-22 12:00 | |
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The latest DLC addition to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, a Zombies mode called “Dead of the Night,” is a campy, extraordinary map filled with undead mayhem — notable as well for starring four very well-known actors.
2018-12-15 01:57 | |
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Google‘s CEO, Sundar Pichai, is in Washington today. He’s trying to explain how the world’s most advanced technology company works to Congress. At some point we’re sure he’s going to be arrested for witchcraft.
2018-12-11 19:54 | |
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Pump-and-dump schemes are some of the oldest and sketchiest scams used in the financial sector, and sadly, the cryptocurrency industry has seen its fair share. There is an ever-growing list of coins whose values are artificially inflated, only for early buyers to sell off at a pre-arranged peak price.
2018-12-5 14:41 | |
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Quora announced today that its Q&A platform was breached by hackers on November 30, and that approximately 100 million users’ data was compromised. The attackers are believed to have accessed the following information: Account information, e.
2018-12-4 07:49 | |
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Facebook today revealed more information about the September data breach that potentially affected up to 50 million users. Now we know roughly what information the attackers accessed, and the number of people they had access to — as well as a help service for those who were effected.
2018-10-13 21:42 | |
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We rarely see a truly remarkable new technology more than once a decade. After years of undelivered promises, such a technology looks finally set to enter the market: the flexible computer screen.
2018-10-2 13:38 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a disaster for everyone: for Facebook’s users, whose personal data was exposed and misused. For Facebook itself, which breached and then lost the trust of a billion-plus people.
2018-8-25 15:30 | |
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A newly introduced facial recognition system that’s being tested across several US airports has just helped catch an impostor for the first time, at Dulles International near Washington, D. C. The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) noted in a press release that earlier this week, a 26-year-old man traveling from Brazil with a French passport was flagged by the airport’s facial recognition tech, which was put in place just three days ago.
2018-8-24 09:14 | |
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DTCC and Chainlink completed a pilot with major US banks to accelerate fund tokenization using blockchain technology. The post DTCC’s pilot project with Chainlink drives blockchain data to expand fund tokenization appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
UBS Group AG's 13F filing reveals a significant stake in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), signaling growing institutional interest in crypto. The post Swiss bank UBS holds 3,600 shares in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, SEC filings show appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey predicts Bitcoin could reach at least $1 million by 2030, citing Bitcoin's collaborative ecosystem and growing mainstream adoption as key price drivers.
Deutsche Bank analysts warn of stablecoin risks, citing Tether's lack of transparency. The post Tether refutes Deutsche Bank research revealing stablecoin solvency risks appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Lagrange Labs, a cryptography startup specializing in zero-knowledge proofs, raises $13.2M seed round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. The post Lagrange Labs closes $13.2M to build out ZK proofs based on EigenLayer appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Founded at Harvard, Botanix Labs raises millions to build the first Bitcoin-native Layer 2 primitive with full EVM equivalence — Spiderchain.
Key takeaways London-based Revolut has launched Revolut X to compete with leading crypto exchanges. Bitbot’s presale has now officially crossed the $3. 2 million mark. Revolut X is now live for experienced traders Financial institutions continue to troop into the cryptocurrency space and London-based Revolut will not be left out.