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My colleague Googled my dad and it got weird
The other day, my colleague Googled my dad. I can’t remember why, so don’t ask, but he sent me a 20-year-old photo of my dad sitting in an office that can only be described as Dunder Mifflin-esque. дальше »
2018-10-6 17:03 | |
The Daily: Empty ETH Blocks, Bitcoin Populism, Crypto Flip-Floppers Exposed
Friday’s installment of our daily roundup investigates a weird mining trick that first surfaced on Bitcoin back in the day. It’s now being exploited on Ethereum. We also take a look at “Bitcoin populism” and consider the fate of crypto shills whose deleted tweets leave them no place to hide on an internet that never […] The post The Daily: Empty ETH Blocks, Bitcoin Populism, Crypto Flip-Floppers Exposed appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »
2018-10-5 13:20 | |
Forza Horizon 4 is the best reason to get Xbox Game Pass today
I’ve always had a weird relationship with racing games. I don’t care much for cars, and I’ve never driven one. I don’t have a license nor am I planning to get one. I see the appeal of expensive supercars going really fast, but the whole car and tuning culture just doesn’t do it for me. дальше »
2018-10-2 15:14 | |
Joe Crypto: Crypto Market Gets Animated
The cryptocurrency market is a volatile place, which is why you can make fortunes and sometimes lose them in record time. That volatility is what keeps us coming back and this week we got an abject lesson in just how unpredictable, wonderful and downright weird the world of digital currency can get. дальше »
2018-9-23 17:44 | |
Joe Crypto: More Bitcoin Insecurity As Markets Flop
Confidence is a weird thing and top athletes will tell you it can come and go in a moment. Just weeks ago we were looking at a resurgent cryptocurrency market. Right now? Well if we heard the traders were looking for a very high window (or a little blue pill) we wouldn’t be surprised. дальше »
2018-9-20 22:30 | |
I grew up in a house that shared one phone charger — and survived
Let me set the scene for you. It’s 2010, my family and I have one shared PC that takes thirty minutes to load the login page, the internet makes a weird sound when it’s switched on, all four of us in the house have a flip phone — and we share one phone charger… My parents were ahead of the curve when it came to digital paranoia and found a ‘fun’ solution to raising kids in a new and terrifying digital world — control their access to electricity. дальше »
2018-9-3 18:00 | |
Huawei’s AI Cube smart speaker packs Alexa and a 4G modem (and isn’t actually a cube)
Amazon’s Alexa is a bit like the consumer tech version of herpes (but in a good way). Like any highly contageous condition, it’s spreading rapidly, finding new devices to infect. Anker, for example, has managed to shoehorn Amazon’s AI voice assistant into a USB car charger and a Bluetooth speaker. дальше »
2018-8-31 18:59 | |
New CNBC Documentary Explores the Cultism of Bitcoin
To outsiders, Bitcoin is a weird and wacky cult. Its devotees adhere to their own acronym-filled jargon, and have monetary theories that would make an economist blanch. Some of the movement’s more maverick characters are to be profiled in a CNBC documentary premiering this Monday. дальше »
2018-8-27 22:15 | |
It’s a dumb idea to make Trump’s Space Force its own military branch
Vice President Mike Pence today unveiled the Trump administration’s plans to form a sixth military branch called Space Force. It’s a stupid idea. As a major science nerd, Star Wars fanatic, and lover of the cosmos the thought of Trump’s Space Force causes my inner child to leap for joy and make weird laser sounds. дальше »
2018-8-10 02:22 | |
These soft, tiny robot spiders might operate on you someday
If I was a scientist, I’d hope everything I created would weird people out. This is why I’ve got such glowing admiration for the team of researchers who have created a tiny robot spider that could one day potentially conduct operations inside humans. дальше »
2018-8-8 15:31 | |
Facebook’s airplane reaction wasn’t cleared for takeoff
You might have noticed an addition to Facebook‘s menu of reactions yesterday: A tiny airplane. This unidentified flying object disappeared as quickly as it appeared, but that didn’t stop users from undertaking some pretty weird — and utterly pointless — rituals to get it. дальше »
2018-8-2 21:29 | |
This futuristic fitness tracker creates a 3D model of your naked body
The future’s weird. Just when you’re disappointed with the lack of Star Trek-style replicators (come on, scientists), something unexpectedly badass rears its head. You know, like the Naked 3D fitness tracker. дальше »
2018-8-1 14:00 | |
Profiles in Crypto-Awesome: Brock Pierce
Child-actor, serial-entrepreneur, pre-YouTube content creator, MMORPG milker, early bitcoin adopter, and co-creator of two of the top ten cryptocurrencies — number-9 on Forbes’ Richest People in Crypto is donating his entire $1 billion fortune to rebuild Puerto Rico into Cryptopia. дальше »
2018-7-28 20:00 | |
STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day
Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
The Motiv Ring is a fitness tracker for folks who hate fitness trackers
I’ve always thought fitness trackers are dumb. Often, they look cheap, tacky, and cheesy. In fact, they remind me more of those weird plastic bracelets kids were obsessed with in the 2000s than breathtaking pieces of tech. дальше »
2018-7-20 17:15 | |
BTCC CEO Bobby Lee: Investors in China are Still Trading Crypto Even After Bitcoin Ban
At the Blockchain Open Forum in Seoul, South Korea, China’s first crypto exchange BTCC CEO Bobby Lee said that investors in China are still trading cryptocurrencies even after the Chinese government imposed a ban on crypto trading in September 2017. дальше »
2018-6-30 14:00 | |
Fundstrat Analyst Believes Rebound off $6,000 Is An “Oversold Bounce”
The cryptocurrency market is in a weird place, with Bitcoin finding stability at approximately $6,600 over the past few days. However, many crypto analysts and personalities, like Tom Lee, managing partner at Fundstrat Global Advisors, believe that this could change on a dime. дальше »
2018-6-21 23:00 | |
Totally absurd? William Shatner recommends weird Bitcoin solar-powered mining
Star Trek stalwart William Shatner has become the latest celebrity to champion Bitcoin by endorsing a solar-powered mining project in Illinois. How does mining operate, again?’ The concepts are really strange, and yet when you begin to grasp it, it makes sense. дальше »
2018-6-14 21:47 | |