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Winklevoss Twins confident that Bitcoin’s market cap will surpass Gold’s
In recent times, there is no shortage of Bitcoin proponents as the world’s number cryptocurrency is in the limelight once again as it eyes fresh highs above $20,000. However, one of the earliest, when it comes to advocating the flagship cryptocurrency, is the Winklevoss twins, who have once again praised bitcoin, predicting that its market cap will flip Gold’s.
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Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
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This ‘Search Engine Artist’ Tricked Google Into Displaying Her Art
If you’re reading this, chances are you have some sort of a relationship with Google. Most of us rely on the search engine to look for information instead of storing it on our own brains (which experts say is making us stupid), heading to it for searching, surfing and sometimes even contributing to the endless databases.
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Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close to a Genocide
Ethnic violence set off by the assassination of a popular singer has been supercharged by hate speech and incitements shared widely on the platform.
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To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.
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SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service is priced at $99 per month, according to e-mail
SpaceX is expanding the beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service according to emails seen by CNBC, with service priced at $99 a month.
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Americans Working From Home Face Internet Usage Limits
Some of the nation’s internet providers are limiting broadband usage for customers and increasing rates for heavy users, steps that partly help offset revenue lost from subscribers abandoning their traditional pay-TV plans in favor of internet-based options.
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Elon Musk Is One Step Closer To Rolling Out Affordable Internet With Starlink
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched 60 more Starlink satellites into Falcon 9 rocket to be positioned in low-Earth orbit, bringing the constellation to 788 as the aerospace company gears up for a public beta of the satellite broadband service that is expected to fit inside the budget of most users.
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This new technology may restore trust in photos and videos against the rise of deepfakes
We're in the early stages of a pretty serious problem. Faster hardware and software might bring us new tools to help with accessibility or bring AI-powered conveniences into the phone in your pocket, but they can also be used to mislead. Deepfakes might be humorously awkward right now, the subject of entertainment and really obnoxious Twitter ads, but they're going to be a bigger and bigger problem as both software and hardware get better. Worse, we're also losing the arms race to detect them. But there's another potential solution.
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Starlink could overthrow authoritarian regimes. We need to talk more about that.
It’s difficult not admiring Elon Musk’s tenacity for technological breakthroughs. His desire to solve genuinely difficult problems to help advance humanity is phenomenal. Among his growing list of ambitious ventures is Starlink, a project I feel is bound to be his most impactful endeavor given its immediate socio-political implications.
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Male Chastity Device Comes with Massive Security Flaws
Smart sex toy vulnerable to hacks, researchers say — which could expose users’ most sensitive bits (of data) to cybercriminals.
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Nothing Can Stop Bitcoin, Not Even a Generalized Shutdown of the Internet at a Global Level
Bitcoin is a system with unique monetary attributes based on a disruptive technology called Blockchain. Without the Blockchain technology, Bitcoin could not work. However, without Bitcoin, the Blockchain is just one of many data storage technologies. It is the combination of Bitcoin and Blockchain that represents the unique invention that will revolutionize the world of the future. Bitcoin is a decentralized system that works through the Internet today. Every user on the network can become a full node and have their own version of the Bitcoin Blockchain.
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The internet treatment of insomnia
The reasons are different. They include, for example, stress through circulatory, respiratory, trauma, eating problems, and simply incorrect sleep hygiene, by which we mean a general set of factors that are not conducive to successful sleep, such as too much blue light being emitted by electronic devices before the planned sleep. Sometimes sleep disorders are short-term and occasional and the body makes up for the lack of sleep quite quickly.
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'Feels Good Man' Traces Pepe The Frog From Hate Symbol To Democracy Icon
Pepe the Frog is one of the most prolific images on the Internet. A new documentary follows the frog's creator, cartoonist Matt Furie, as he fights to regain control over his character.
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A Florida Teen Allegedly Shut Down School With a DDoS Attack
With the presidential election fast approaching, recent moves by the Trump administration appear designed to undermine the security and integrity of the vote. And that's not even counting the long-standing Postal Service shenanigans. Facebook rolled out a series of measures this week designed to minimize how much it contributes to the problem, including message-forwarding limits that have already helped WhatsApp fight misinformation.
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Australian regulator says Google misled users over data privacy issues
Australia's competition regulator on Monday accused Alphabet's Google of misleading consumers to get permission for use of their personal data for targeted advertising, seeking a fine "in the millions" and aiming to establish a precedent.
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Even if Currencies Fail, Money will Evolve
Since the dawn of civilisation, from barter to bitcoin, the very meaning of the word ‘currency’ has never stood still. Even in the current century, the core idea of what currency “is” continues to be malleable by group behaviour and innovation. Fiat currencies fall (mostly inflation led — case in point, Zimbabwean Dollar and Venezuelan Bolivar) but exchange of value, trades and transactions continues to take place with alternative forms of exchange. As a result, money will very likely evolve to a new medium.
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It’s time to cancel #cancelculture
Should everyone get to play moral police? Imagine if every single conversation or a heated discussion in our life was recorded and reviewed. Would all of our opinions pass through the filter of modern political correctness?
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The 'cancel culture' war is really about old elites losing power in the social media age
Whenever I talk to people who are suddenly concerned about “cancel culture” or “online mobs”, my first thought is always: “Where have you been for the last decade?” I’ve been online long enough and, like many others, been receiving criticism and abuse online for long enough, to know that what some see as a new pattern of virtual censure by moral purists is mostly a story about the internet, not ideology or identity.
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TikTok to Withdraw From Hong Kong as Tech Giants Halt Data Requests
Google, Facebook and Twitter said they were reviewing China’s punitive new national security law for the city, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by major American tech companies.
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