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WATCH: Craig Wright briefly forgets he ‘invented’ Bitcoin

Craig Wright appears to have briefly forgotten that he wrote the Bitcoin white paper while speaking at a recent conference in Toronto. Wright, lead brain behind alternative cryptocurrency Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, caused controversy earlier this year after suing community members who refused to acknowledge that he created Bitcoin under the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym. дальше »

2019-6-14 17:12


How a #10YearChallenge tweet highlights Iran’s paradoxical relationship with social media

The 10-Year Challenge was the year’s first big internet fad. You remember? When people posted pictures of themselves from 2009 and 2019 in order to… well, actually, that was it. Depending on who you talk to, it was either a benign trend for people to show off how resilient their faces were against the tides of time, or a conspiracy by Facebook to improve its facial recognition tech. дальше »

2019-6-5 16:51


Ethereum Creator Rips Crypto Conference for Hosting Bitcoin SV ‘Shills’

Readers may remember the legendary moment last year when Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin responded to a talk by Craig Wright to call him a “fraud. ” Buterin had endured enough of what he viewed to be baseless claims on the part of Wright, who at the time was talking about “dishonest miners” in the crypto economy. дальше »

2019-4-6 21:09


“Remember Lads, Subscribe to PewDiePie”: We Need to Talk About How Domestic Terrorists are Created Online

When I was a wide-eyed 19 year-old sophomore at the University of Hull in 2009, I had a close friend and housemate whom we shall call ‘Harry. ’ Despite the wide cultural gap between this privileged Nigerian international student and the ‘third culture’ child of middle-class Chinese-Norwegian parents who spoke in an American accent, we bonded over our mutual love for girls, videogames, Chinese cuisine, internet culture and anime. дальше »

2019-3-17 12:42


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Facebook’s new VR avatars are more lifelike than anything you’ve seen before

Remember when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to show off his company’s clunky Spaces VR tech by taking a virtual tour of hurricane-hit Puerto Rico in 2017? This is nothing like that. The company has quietly been developing a revolutionary system to create virtual avatars of people that closely resemble them in their facial features and mannerisms. дальше »

2019-3-14 16:47


Former IBM Chair Talks About the Struggles of Public Blockchain and EU Privacy Laws Co-Existing

You may remember when new privacy laws were passed in the European Union (EU) recently and almost all the sites you visited warned you that they changed their policies, right? Well, unfortunately, the public blockchains are yet to be fully adequate to this new legislation, according to Sam Palmisano, the retired chairman of IBM. Palmisano, […] дальше »

2019-3-6 01:18


Think about death when you start your next company

Back in high school, my favorite teacher said to me: ”Jonathan. Remember to die a little every day. ” Back then, I thought it was a strange thing to say. Both him and I were and are generally optimistic people, so why even bother thinking about such a sad thing as death? And why did he mention it to me, when I shared my passion for starting new projects with him? Today, I understand what he meant. дальше »

2019-2-16 22:30


Facebook’s totally not listening to you, its new ad disclosure feature screams desperately

Remember hearing about – or worse, feeling like – people seeing ads related to topics they’ve merely talked about with friends on the phone or in person? Facebook has previously denied the claim that it eavesdrops on you through your phone’s mic to target ads, and other studies have also substantiated that the social network might not be spying on you after all. дальше »

2019-2-7 15:23


Justin Sun Addresses Recent Questions About BitTorrent’s Upcoming BTT Token Rollout

As some of our regular readers may remember, a few days back the BitTorrent token project was thrust into the spotlight when an article published by a respected media outlet questioned whether the TRON network possessed the “necessary processing capacity” to handle the thousands of transactions per second which were needed to make BitTorrent’s Token […] дальше »

2019-1-14 18:58


Revisiting the Power Struggle Story of Coinbase Crypto Company Vs the Wall Street Old Guard

While a day is a short one in politics, that is an understatement for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, especially as they look at 2018 as if it weren't just a few weeks ago. It doesn't take too much recollection to remember the lofty days when cryptocurrency market capitalization stood at just over $300 million with all the […] дальше »

2019-1-10 21:09