2020-11-9 16:00 |
Sia co-founder David Vorick's short story takes the perspective of the decentralized web recounting its own, inevitable rise.
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A group of around 50 crypto influencers was busted in an unsuccessful attempt to pump $FEW after screenshots of their closed Telegram group surfaced on Twitter. The post The short and sad story of $FEW, an unsuccessful attempt to recreate $MEME appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-9-24 20:35 | |
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Messari reacher and financial expert, Ryan Watkins is wondering why DeFi tokens are experiencing such a boost in cryptocurrency markets but ETH is remaining stagnant. “DeFi is mooning. Why isn’t ETH? The short story is that there’s no direct reason why ETH needs to rise with DeFi. The long story is that it may do […]
2020-6-26 23:32 | |
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The legendary author behind Harry Potter has recently asked about Bitcoin in a short Twitter thread. We reported the story yesterday, and it seems that plenty of people have responded to Rowling’s question about what Bitcoin is.
2020-5-17 23:34 | |
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As the past decade ends, the latest mainstream big shot entrant in the crypto industry Fidelity Investments reflected on the maturation of the infrastructure of the Bitcoin market. The report states, “In a few short years, Bitcoin’s story has critically evolved to recognize the true potential of the network — as a new type of […]
2020-1-11 20:29 | |
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Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Bitcoin (BTC) saw a relatively mild week in terms of price action; the cryptocurrency market effectively ended the week where it started, and no decisive momentum was built to the upside or downside.
2019-11-3 21:00 | |
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Short video creation platform TikTok has entered the eLearning market in India with the #EduTok program. Under the program, the Bytedance-owned company will launch an original educational show aimed at fitness enthusiasts, and push an educational show and push learning videos in partnership with educational institutes.
2019-10-17 11:03 | |
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Those who follow me on Twitter (and you should, because I’m funny) know I have some strong feelings about the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. In short, I think it’s the equivalent of Herbalife for nerds, with bad technology that’s propagated by a Dickensian cast of grifters and hucksters.
2019-10-16 17:04 | |
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Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed to carry up to 100 crew members on interplanetary journeys throughout the solar system, starting with Mars in 2024.
2019-10-13 20:00 | |
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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued updated guidance for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings yesterday. It’s the organizations first update in five years and it asks more questions than it answers.
2019-10-10 11:57 | |
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Blizzard, perhaps ironically, has ignited a firestorm over the banning of an esports pro for his support of Hong Kong. While the initial response was flammable enough, the aftermath is swiftly growing beyond its original gaming context into a proper international incident.
2019-10-9 21:26 | |
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The Bank of England‘s (BoE) Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has laid down a set of rules that Facebook‘s Libra and other cryptocurrencies must follow if they are to be launched in Britain. While some question if Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra will ever launch, the BoE‘s FPC did recognize its potential to becoming an “important payment system,” City AM reports.
2019-10-9 15:12 | |
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The short film “Slaughterbots” depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for their political beliefs. Released in November 2017 by academics and activists warning of the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence (AI), it quickly went viral, attracting over 3 million views to date.
2019-10-6 20:00 | |
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Popular short video making app, TikTok, is distancing itself from paid political ads. The company announced today that it won’t allow such adsclaiming they don’t fit “the TikTok platform experience.
2019-10-4 12:05 | |
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An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This huge breakthrough represents the largest object to ever be observed in such a state – essentially occupying two places at once.
2019-10-4 23:47 | |
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Update at 6:30 PM IST: The treaty between the US and the UK to disclose information of individuals suspected of serious criminal acts will not require social media platforms to install backdoors or break end-to-end encryption, a further analysis of the CLOUD Act reveals.
2019-9-30 14:57 | |
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Apple Arcade launched yesterday, alongside iOS 13, and while I’ve only used it for a short while, I think I can say this is the kind of mobile gaming I want, now and forever. For starters, this is a price I can actually stomach.
2019-9-21 03:13 | |
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EMUI is Huawei’s bespoke Android environment, available across its entire handset lineup. The latest version, EMUI 10, is a dramatic step forward for the company, and introduces a new “dark mode,” as well as a design language that’s unambiguously inspired by print magazines.
2019-9-19 18:23 | |
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Software will eat the world. That’s what they say, but IoT is inherently not only software. When it comes to looking at hardware startups, or even products, you need to look at a lot of moving parts.
2019-9-19 14:00 | |
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The New York Times has now officially transformed into the National Enquirer 2. 0. The so-called newspaper’s story regarding another unverified, uncorroborated, unbelievable sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is an affront to journalism.
2019-9-17 04:39 | |
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Ding dong, the completely unsustainable witch is dead. As we reported earlier today, MoviePass is shutting down. It leaves behind a few now-useless cards, and several major VC funds out of pocket to the tune of $68.
2019-9-14 04:18 | |
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It’s already getting tough to discern real text from fake, genuine video from deepfake. Now, it appears that use of fake voice tech is on the rise too. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported a case of voice fraud — aka vishing (short for “voice phishing”) — that cost a company $243,000.
2019-9-2 14:24 | |
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In an extremely short report, Returns noted that Microsoft is going to put its mixed reality headset, HoloLens 2, on sale next month. The report stated Microsoft‘s VP, Harry Shum, made the announcement at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
2019-8-29 16:40 | |
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Reddit today revealed it’s testing its own livestreaming service, called RPAN or Reddit Public Access Network. It’ll be running all week, presumably to see what kind of shows redditors put on before the site rolls it out to everyone.
2019-8-20 03:39 | |
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Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Bluetooth’s authentication protocols which, if properly executed, could allow an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack between two paired devices.
2019-8-16 16:19 | |
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Phones are interesting again. Manufacturers, predominantly Chinese in origin, are designing quirky devices that target select, often narrow, demographics. A great example of this is the Unihertz Titan, which is currently in the process of being crowdfunded on Kickstarter.
2019-8-15 21:49 | |
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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. YouTube videos are great ways to keep yourself entertained for a short period of time — but what happens when you don’t have access to the internet? How do you save YouTube videos to watch later? Bear in mind all that, barring the first example, these methods aren’t officially sanctioned by YouTube or Google.
2019-8-10 03:09 | |
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A team of researchers in Canada and China are working on a revolutionary new way to track blood pressure: a selfie. The teams, based at the University of Toronto and the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, just published a proof of concept that allows smartphone users to track blood pressure by taking a short video.
2019-8-7 03:14 | |
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Well before Google decided it would leak the Pixel 4 on its own terms, LG had been teasing and revealing features on its own devices for years. Today, the company began the marketing efforts for its next flagship, posting a short teaser that seems to reveal a triple-screened device to be announced at IFA on September 6.
2019-8-7 23:54 | |
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Facebook today announced it’s open-sourcing two technologies that help it curb the spread of problematic content like child exploitation, terrorist propaganda, or graphic violence online. These technologies aid the social network in detecting identical and nearly identical photos and video in order to weed out content that’s been flagged as being in violation of its policies.
2019-8-2 08:50 | |
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Sometimes, like a soothsayer of shittiness, you know something is terrible before you even see it. And one of those things is Microsoft’s new advert for its Surface 2 laptop. In this… opus, a man literally called Mac (short for Mackenzie) Book talks bollocks about why Microsoft’s machine is superior to its Apple counterpart.
2019-8-1 17:33 | |
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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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I’m going to keep this review short. Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis goes on sale today starting at $249, but in almost every respect, it’s identical to its 2017 predecessor. There is but one meaningful update: you can now change the screen color temperature, shifting it to warmer hues for both helping you sleep and matching ambient lighting.
2019-7-25 21:14 | |
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Since 1912, Ilford Photo has been making film rolls for photography enthusiasts from across the globe, giving recreational and professional photographers a way to see the world in black and white.
2019-7-17 17:54 | |
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Artificial intelligence is captivating tech news audiences. Unfortunately, growing expectations for AI’s impact on legitimate business have spawned a distracting narrative about potential AI-powered cyberattacks.
2019-7-11 14:00 | |
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On July 14, 2019, Binance will turn two years old. The story of the young crypto exchange’s rise to stardom since its inception has been nothing short of inspirational, seconded to only maybe Bitcoin’s meteoric rise in terms of sheer dominance of the industry itself.
2019-7-9 23:00 | |
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Cambridge Audio is one of the oldest and most respected audio brands in the UK. It’s best known for its pricey amplifiers and speakers, which promise a top-notch listening experience, at the expense of your bank balance.
2019-7-4 01:30 | |
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Apple released the public beta versions of its new operating systems iOS 13, iPadOS, WatchOS 6, macOS Catalina, and tvOS 13. These versions might have some bugs and niggles, but if you’re curious like me, you’ll want to install them and check out the new features for yourself.
2019-6-25 09:13 | |
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Steven Spielberg is in the process of writing a horror show for a new stream service called Quibi (Short for Quick Bites), reported Variety. The catch is you can only watch an episode once its dark.
2019-6-11 13:13 | |
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Coinspeaker These 7 Tools Will Help You Calculate Your Crypto TaxesIt takes a genuine accounting guru to understand how the new system functions, but you can cut the long story short by using one of many apps or platforms developed to calculate crypto taxes.
2019-6-8 09:30 | |
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The banking industry is hell-bent on taking over the nascent blockchain and cryptocurrency market. A group of financial firms led by UBS Group AG is eyeing blockchain technology for settling cross-border trades worldwide with its own “Bitcoin-like” token.
2019-6-3 13:22 | |
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Beginning in 2016, China saw the sudden and meteoric rise of the short video social media platform Kuaishou lion people, with 100 million daily active users. What makes it unique among Chinese apps is not its feature set, but the demographics of its user pool, which is comprised of a higher percentage of rural and… This story continues at The Next Web
2019-5-28 12:38 | |
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ByteDance is likely on your phone through its colony of popular apps like TikTok or Helo. Now it wants to make a phone of its own. Yes, you read that right. According to a new report by The Financial Times, the Beijing-based social media company is developing a “phone preloaded with its own apps — which include newsfeeds, short video platforms and games — in a bid to further spread its reach.
2019-5-27 15:15 | |
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Recommending phones used to be easy. A few years ago, if a friend was coming to the end of their contract and needed to pick a new model, I’d tell them to grab the newest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S-whatever.
2019-5-22 23:55 | |
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For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon become a common sights in streets and roads. But we’re well into 2019, and self-driving cars are still making stupid mistakes.
2019-5-16 19:24 | |
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Welcome to the second day of TNW Conference 2019, our flagship technology festival in Amsterdam. We’re live at the eToro Studio, where we’re chatting about the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain with some of the industry’s leading experts.
2019-5-10 15:50 | |
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You can live without food for three weeks and without water for up to three days. But you can’t live without air for more than three short minutes. It’s not just the abundance of air that matters – the quality is essential, too.
2019-5-10 14:00 | |
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Just a few short years ago, marketing teams looked to the “cutting-edge” technology of the time to engage with customers more efficiently: IVRs. These tools served a useful purpose, providing quick answers to straightforward questions and slashing wait times—but they’re no longer cutting it.
2019-5-8 05:30 | |
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The price of Bitcoin has “bottomed” – or so say the cryptocurrency analysts who predicted the end of the bear market. But, they’re also warning the recent Tether drama could turn Bitcoin bearish again over the short term.
2019-5-2 16:04 | |
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Tether’s lawyer has now admitted that the stablecoin is only 74 percent backed by cash and equivalents, according to an affidavit filed on Tuesday. In the filing, Stuart Hoegner, the company’s general counsel, said Tether held approximately $2.
2019-5-1 13:19 | |
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