2020-9-19 19:49 |
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Users of privacy-centric web browser Brave can now use the Gemini trading widget to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies. Brave Desktop Users Gain Access to Gemini Trading Widget In an attempt to make it easier for individuals to trade cryptocurrencies, privacy-focused Internet browser Brave has now officially integrated Gemini crypto exchange’s trading widget into itsRead MoreRead More.
2020-8-28 13:07 | |
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ARK today announced the launch of MarketSquare, which it refers to as the new homepage for the decentralized web. This is to make blockchain technology more readily available to the different categories of users including developers.
2020-6-29 23:05 | |
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Trend Micro reveals dwindling confidence among darknet users in marketplaces due to security concerns.
2020-6-9 20:57 | |
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Lightning Labs, one of the engineering teams dedicated to solving the scalability issues of Bitcoin (BTC) via the Lightning Network, has introduced Lightning Service Authentication Tokens (LSAT), a protocol designed to enable people to make payments on the web without necessarily submitting their personal information such as emails or credit card details, according to aRead MoreRead More.
2020-4-1 17:00 | |
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Temporal has partnered with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) to integrate its Web 3. 0 infrastructure and IPFS APIs into the ENS Manager app. According to the companies’ press release, another great use-case for both platforms has been created, as it will enable creating a decentralized website in no more than three steps.
2020-2-11 00:56 | |
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TikTok, the song-and-dance social media app that’s spiked in popularity this year, is allegedly the site of the latest attempt by the Islamic State terrorist organization (ISIS) to spread propaganda.
2019-10-22 02:43 | |
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A former American professional basketball player has allegedly swindled over $800,000 worth of Bitcoin from a company based in Ghana. Isaac Edward Austin, who retired in 2004, reportedly posed as a trustee for his own Bitcoin trading company and managed to get the Ghanaian firm to hand over $11,000 per BTC, GhanaWeb reports.
2019-10-21 17:32 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I don’t really know why, but video doorbells have always seemed hella futuristic to me. Maybe it’s a youth spent absorbing sci-fi movies and TV shows, but there’s something crazy cool about being able to see who’s ringing your doorbell.
2019-10-21 12:31 | |
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Microsoft has announced a bug bounty program for its open-source election software ElectionGuard, allowing researchers to uncover vulnerabilities and help bolster election security. Available as a software development kit (SDK), ElectionGuard aims to make voting tamper-proof by leveraging encryption to “enable a new era of secure, verifiable voting.
2019-10-21 09:04 | |
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Telegram has yielded to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the sale of its Gram tokens, for now. According to a court filing submitted earlier this week, Telegram has agreed to stop selling its Gram tokens.
2019-10-18 11:18 | |
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Google purged Clips, those tiny little cameras that could fit in your palm and which would take pics of you autonomously, from its store, meaning they join the graveyard of products quietly killed off by the company.
2019-10-17 19:28 | |
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MySQL really IS simple. But of course, it does take an organized lesson plan to make sure you’re learning how to administer a database the right way. You can get all that much needed training with The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp, which is now marked down to a ridiculously low $11.99 for a limited time from TNW Deals.
2019-10-16 16:00 | |
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In what’s an obvious scam, a developer going by the name Joel Bellenson who allegedly works for a company called Insolent AI, created and developed a DNA analysis app that can supposedly tell “how gay” you are.
2019-10-16 02:41 | |
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Google launched its new flagship the Pixel 4 today, but sadly the phone won’t be coming to India. The reason is the Soli Radar chip used in the new phones. The chip uses a 60 GHz ISM band which is not listed for commercial use in India as per National Frequency Allocation Plan (NFAP).
2019-10-15 18:23 | |
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Google just launched its new laptop called the PixelBook Go with a 13. 3-inch touch screen and runs Chrome OS. The Pixelbook Go weighs less than 900 grams and it’s just 13. 3mm thin, making it quite easy to carry it around the town.
2019-10-15 17:49 | |
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Human trafficking affects every country in the world. In fact, estimates say that 20-40 million people are enslaved across the globe, earning criminals profits of approximately $150 billion a year.
2019-10-14 14:37 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Phone upgrades are an odd one. There are very few thousand-dollar items that we’d happily replace each year.
2019-10-14 11:16 | |
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Microsoft shuttering its ebook store is hardly the end of the world. The Kindle customer base is, by all accounts, predominant in this space. Not all product launches succeed — some fail. That’s business.
2019-10-13 00:00 | |
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Hakan Samuelsson, the CEO of Volvo recently said it was “irresponsible” to put autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road if they were not sufficiently safe, because that would erode trust among the public and regulators.
2019-10-12 20:00 | |
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The Tectonic9 is a manually-operated herb grinder with a vibrating dispenser. Yeah, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me at first either. If I’ve got to do the grinding by hand, what’s the point of the vibration? In a word, the answer is: fluffy.
2019-10-12 22:49 | |
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Apple has officially begun testing a feature that allows users to explicitly opt out of sharing audio recordings to improve its Siri voice assistant. The update — available as a beta for iPadOS 13.
2019-10-11 10:11 | |
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“But until we have a hint of a beginning of a design, with some visible path towards autonomous AI systems with non-trivial intelligence, we are arguing about the sex of angels. ” Yann LeCun. There’s yet another online debate raging between world-renowned AI experts.
2019-10-11 23:04 | |
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Getting around a city with pets can be tricky, especially a large dog or two. Here in NYC, most people don’t own cars, especially in the inner boroughs. That often means calling a cab when you need to go to the vet or on a trip across town.
2019-10-11 22:08 | |
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Often in movies, I’ve seen twins play a classic prank where they try to confuse others about their identity. OnePlus has almost pulled off that same joke with its OnePlus 7T Pro that launched today.
2019-10-10 19:13 | |
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After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe – galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium – about half of it is still missing. So not only is 85 percent of the matter in the universe made up of an unknown, invisible substance dubbed “dark matter,” we can’t even find all the small amount of normal matter that should be there.
2019-10-10 16:59 | |
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Google Docs is one of the few online applications that I’m deeply dependent on for my everyday work. Like millions of other people, I use it to write, edit, collaborate, and to archive my documents.
2019-10-9 16:02 | |
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The Tap Strap is one of the more interesting gadgets to hit the market last year. It’s a Bluetooth keyboard with an integrated optical mouse that you wear over your fingers like flexible brass knuckles.
2019-10-8 19:33 | |
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Instagram is rolling out a new security feature that makes it easy to spot phishing mails that make it seem like they come from the social network. The feature — dubbed “Emails from Instagram” — is accessible via the app settings, and allows you to check all the legitimate emails Instagram has sent over the last 14 days.
2019-10-8 11:53 | |
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In March, NASA announced plans to conduct its first ever all-women spacewalk with astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain. However, what would have been a giant leap for womankind was canceled — because NASA hadn’t packed enough spacesuits.
2019-10-8 11:06 | |
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Sony’s releasing its 7. 00 update for the PS4 this week, which adds support for the console’s Remote Play feature to all Android devices, months after iOS got the same thing. Up to now, the only Android devices for which Remote Play was compatible were Sony’s own Xperias.
2019-10-8 20:24 | |
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Do you know what the most overused word in consumer tech is? It’s “pro. ” Brands love to attach those three little letters to their products in the hope it’ll make the general public salivate with desire.
2019-10-7 11:18 | |
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Instagram might finally let you make stories for your group. According to app researcher Jane Mancun Wong, the company is currently testing out this feature in one of the app’s test builds. Screenshots posted in Wong’s tweet indicates once you snap a photo from the stories camera option, it’ll let you post it to your stories, stories visible to only close friends, and stories for a group.
2019-10-7 08:35 | |
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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. I’ve got a habit of only plugging one earbud in my ears.
2019-10-5 15:00 | |
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Authorities in India have found themselves in a crypto-conundrum: they can’t access cryptocurrency seized from a Ponzi scheme because such transfers have been prohibited, reports Times of India.
2019-10-4 15:12 | |
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When dealing with complex systems, anything can happen, which means that no matter how well you’ve tested something, problems like system outages are inevitable — and are often caused by events out of your control.
2019-10-4 12:00 | |
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If you think about it, you’ll probably agree that Domino’s has a point in its recent legal case. Requiring businesses to make sure every digital mode of sales and marketing they offer is equally accessible to disabled customers is a major burden that doesn’t seem to fall on them for non-digital offerings (e.
2019-10-3 18:52 | |
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Elon Musk is a Cancer. If he’d been born a week earlier, on June 21st instead of June 28th, he’d be a Gemini. And that would make much, much more sense. Because, while he isn’t very crabby (Cancers are crabs, and that’s the extent of my astrology knowledge), he certainly is a two-spirited human.
2019-10-3 02:56 | |
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Microsoft revealed a new expression of Windows 10 at today’s Surface event, called Windows 10X. This new version of Windows is optimized to work with dual-screen devices, such as the Surfaces Neo and Duo, also announced at the same event.
2019-10-2 18:23 | |
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At its New York Surface event today, Microsoft announced the Surface Earbuds. It’s a device that for once wasn’t leaked weeks ahead, although we probably shouldn’t be surprised given everyone and their mothers are releasing true wireless earbuds.
2019-10-2 17:58 | |
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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. If you own an Apple TV and are anything like me, you’ll have been hit with a weird surprise a while ago: a button on the remote randomly changed function.
2019-10-2 15:48 | |
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“Can machines think?”, asked the famous mathematician, code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing almost 70 years ago. Today, some experts have no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be able to develop the kind of general intelligence that humans have.
2019-10-2 10:23 | |
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A car crashes at 70 miles-per-hour. Upon impact electrical components get jarred loose, creating a spark that comes into contact with a fuel leak from the gas tank. The vehicle erupts into flames.
2019-10-2 04:47 | |
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Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we’ll eventually have the resources to launch deeper crewed missions from there, eventually reaching as far as… somewhere near Neptune.
2019-10-2 23:49 | |
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The world is in a state of climate emergency. The importance of tackling climate change has arguably never been higher. Governments around the world are coming under increasing pressure to act and deliver initiatives to make our cities greener, cleaner, and all-round better places to live.
2019-10-1 17:47 | |
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Google‘s Pixel range of devices have quickly established themselves as some of the most popular flagship phones around. They’ve enter that rarified segment of devices populated by the Apple and Samsungs of the world, but — as much as I like them — this has always seemed like a strange fit to me.
2019-9-30 17:21 | |
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Lift your head up from your desk and take a look around the office. Is the number of people at work today the same as yesterday? Probably not. Across the world, standard workweeks are already taking new shape and the United States is jumping on the bandwagon with Summer Friday initiatives and flexible hour scheduling.
2019-9-30 20:00 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Look, exercise is important. If you don’t do it, you’re probably gonna be unhealthy, and if you’re unhealthy, you’re probably gonna have a bad time.
2019-9-29 15:01 | |
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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. I have a confession to make, I’m terrible at picking something to watch on Netflix.
2019-9-28 15:00 | |
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I tried to get ‘red pilled’ by r/The_Donald and I didn’t even get a T-shirt. What I did get though, was a deep enough understanding of the bigots, racists, ableists, homophobes, and other ‘forgotten’ people huddling in this safe space to develop some empathy for them.
2019-9-28 01:45 | |
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Sia co-founder David Vorick's short story takes the perspective of the decentralized web recounting its own, inevitable rise.
The decentralized design of the web gives it the potential to be more privacy-preserving than any other system. Yet, there are long range threats at play.
Cypherpunk historian Finn Brunton imagines a future where there are many internets, each making demands on your attention.
The blockchain industry already exhibits signs of the same forces that have driven over-consolidation in the broader economy.
Real freedom will come when monetary stimulus goes directly to the people, writes Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro
Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change.
Self-help guru James Altucher sees a world where we can jump between virtual realities. Will it be a better world? Time will tell.