2020-3-4 13:54 |
The TikTok skull breaker challenge is the latest viral internet fad that is sweeping schools. How long before someone is seriously hurt? The post Viral TikTok ‘Skull-Breaker’ Challenge is the Internet Hitting Peak Stupid appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is holding a smart building challenge for blockchain and IoT projects, with the goal of integrating tech partners and suppliers to build smart complexes. This challenge, launched in tandem with Trusted IoT Alliance, revolves around participants solving crucial problems in a particular sector with a basic outlay and execution plan,Read MoreRead More.
2019-10-9 17:00 | |
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Every invention or discovery the world has ever seen came to be because of the inadequacy of the present. Steam engines evolved because of the inadequacy of transportation, computers and mobile phones evolved because of the inadequacy of technology, and the Internet was born out of the inadequacy of communication and information.
2019-8-9 17:30 | |
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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.
2019-6-5 16:51 | |
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Africa has come a long way in technology and connectivity. Before the start of the decade, few knew what a smartphone was. However, according to data from The GSM Association, around 250 million Africans own a smartphone as of last year.
2019-5-29 21:34 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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The main design goal of QCoin and Quantum1Net is to create a digital financial system that uses networking as an underlying value, just like the internet works in the sense that everyday internet networking creates value for ISPs, Online Merchants and others.
2019-3-13 19:34 | |
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International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women and all they have achieved throughout history. From women’s silenced influence in creating the internet to the rise of female-founders in tech.
2019-3-8 14:35 | |
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The EU has done a good job upholding net neutrality since it implemented a law on it back in 2016, but European net neutrality will face a new challenge in 2019: how to deal with 5G. The current net neutrality law is undergoing reform this year and it’s expected that it’ll largely revolve around the question of whether 5G should be treated like 4G and other internet services under net neutrality, or get special treatment.
2019-2-28 16:30 | |
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Talks are underway to merge Amazon’s Chinese venture with NetEase-owned Kaola, according to business publication Caijing. Kaola is a Chinese e-commerce firm which specializes in selling imports.
2019-2-20 21:47 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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Internet connectivity is coming to be regarded worldwide as no less than essential infrastructure, and yet it’s estimated about half of the world’s population today remains unconnected. Connecting the world’s unconnected populations will demand new approaches in business relationships, policy making, and technology solutions.
2019-1-27 20:00 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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Digital advertisers know they’re screwed. Digital marketers don’t. Considering statistics like one in four US internet users are now blocking ads on a regular basis, coupled with the ongoing privacy battles over user data, it’s easy to see the challenge for digital advertisers.
2019-1-21 15:30 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF).
2018-10-9 20:10 | |
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Have you ever heard of a musical artist named Drake? Of course you have. Because he’s everywhere. These days, it’s hard to miss Aubrey Graham, the rapper and singer from Canada (eh). He recently released Scorpion, and the internet went nuts, as it always does for Aubrey.
2018-8-11 16:07 | |
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In its early days, the web’s founding principles were clear and simple: A new way to host and distribute information globally, bringing data together in a way that’s fair and open for all. But as adoption rose, networks swelled and our reliance on the internet grew, and finding a home for all that data became a challenge — and so we turned to cloud computing as the answer.
2018-8-11 08:30 | |
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This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger.
2018-8-5 16:08 | |
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Technologist and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak played contrarian at the NEX technology conference in late June, comparing the hype around blockchain to the fervor he witnessed just before the implosion of the dot-com bubble.
2018-6-29 20:29 | |
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Blockchain venture Cardstack just recently concluded a successful token sale reaching its cap of $35 million. The funding puts Cardstack in a strong position to pursue its goal of redefining the internet’s experience layer through blockchain and decentralization.
2018-6-19 14:00 | |
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US billionaire Frank McCourt is leading a consortium to acquire TikTok and decentralize it using the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) from Project Liberty. TikTok, boasting over 170 million users, is being pressured by the US government to sell due to national security concerns and purported links to the Chinese government.
Quick Take Metaplanet Inc. is taking a bold step towards embracing Bitcoin as part of its corporate strategy. On April 26, the company announced it had purchased up to 1 billion Yen worth of Bitcoin, outlining its approach to adopting the digital asset.
TikTok, the wildly popular video-sharing platform, is currently grappling with an onslaught of fraudulent cryptocurrency giveaways that prey on users’ trust in themes related to Elon Musk, his electric vehicle and aerospace companies SpaceX and Tesla.
Bad actors are now turning to the video-sharing platform to scam people by pretending to be crypto giveaways from celebrities. TikTok is being flooded with fake posts pretending to be crypto giveaways from Elon Musk hourly, BleepingComputer first revealed. According…
A former TikTok crypto influencer has been forced to forfeit a gold physical bitcoin and more than $17,000 in cash after pleading guilty to wire fraud
Coinspeaker TikTok Joins Conversational AI Race, Now Trialing Tako In-App Despite the future fears being nursed, TikTok said it is still building out the responses and feedbacks from the AI.
Coinspeaker FinTech Firm Klarna Overhauls App with TikTok-like Discovery Feed amid AI Hype Klarna seeks to leverage the power of AI for offering curated shopping experiences to customers while also introducing TikTok features and new tools for advertisers.