Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Schopenhauer used to say: Shop ’till you drop! Bitcoin price We closed the day, July 30 2020, at a price of $11,111. That’s a minor 0.10 percent increase in 24 hours, or $11. It was the highest closing price in three hundred and fifty-two days....
Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Jane Didion used to say: Let’s whip up a knowledge omelette! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, November 01 2019, at a price of $9,261. That’s a minor 0.72 percent increase in 24 hours, or $67. It was the highest closing price in two days....
Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Descartes used to say: We’re on the highway to hell, so let’s ride! Bitcoin price We closed the day, July 15 2020, at a price of $9,192. That’s a minor 0.53 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$49.05. It was the lowest closing price in nine days....
Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Isaac Newton used to say: Peel off the skin of this mystery and eat the tasty fruit inside! Bitcoin price We closed the day, December 10 2019, at a price of $7,278. That’s a minor 1.60 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$119.01. It was the lowest closing price in five days....
A team of researchers from the University of Reading today published research indicating the window for good weather might be closing for NASA’s plan to send a crewed spacecraft to the Moon in 2024. Titled “Extreme Space-Weather Events and the Solar Cycle,” the team’s paper details a “seasonal” weather cycle involving the sun’s polar position and radiation bursts. Per the research: In other words: the researchers determined that periods of extreme geomagnetic activity as measured on Earth can be attributed increased solar activity....
As an example, Glasgow City Council recently announced its aim to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2030. Some have cast doubt on the council’s capacity to achieve this ambitious target, not least because many sources of emissions are beyond its direct control. Take the energy used by households in heating their homes. Glasgow is blessed and cursed by fine old buildings, but they require a lot of energy to heat....
Our local supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced Sag A star), contains roughly 4 million times as much mass as the Sun. Not far from this black hole, members of a newly-discovered class of objects are caught in a gravitational dance with a massive body. These G objects look like gas but behave like stars, as they complete their 100- to 1000-year-long orbits of Sgr A*. While they appear compact most of the time, they stretch out as they come closer to the black hole near the core of our galaxy....
In addition to being cheap and renewable, hydropower has another great advantage. Its production can ramp up and down very quickly (by turning the turbines on and off) during the day to match demand. Looking at a typical winter’s day (I’ve taken July 4, 2018), demand at 3am was 3,480 megawatts (MW) and 85% was met by renewable sources. By the early evening peak, demand was up to 5,950MW, but was met by 88% renewable sources....
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday that the Payment Services Act will now be enforced. First passed in January last year, the act gives the regulator supervisory authority over all payment businesses in the country. [Read: Singapore’s financial regulator wants its banks and blockchains to be friends] Companies now have a month to register with MAS. Once they do so, businesses will have six months to apply for a payment institution license....
One of the first of these waves of change was the shift in the global labor market to being heavily candidate-focused. There are less quality candidates per opening than ever, and this has meant companies have had to shift their strategies to contend with candidates becoming increasingly particular about who they want to work for. Combine this market shift with the growing reliance on mobile technology, particularly among the upcoming cohort of Generation-Z (the largest to enter the job market ever), and you can start to see why technology follows closely on the heels of these broader changes....
The million-dollar question then is: Can this technologically produced problem of scale and reach also be solved using technology? Indeed, the continuous development of new technological solutions, such as artificial intelligence (AI), may provide part of the solution. Technology companies and social media enterprises are working on the automatic detection of fake news through natural language processing, machine learning and network analysis. The idea is that an algorithm will identify information as “fake news,” and rank it lower to decrease the probability of users encountering it....
If you’re unaware of what this is, basically every year Spotify releases a customized breakdown of how you’ve spent your year on their platform. If, of course, you have a Premium subscription to the service. Think this sounds like your thing? Then it probably is. So, what exactly is Spotify’s 2019 Wrapped? Well, it’s a web app (you can check it out here) that presents a range of stats about your listening habits over the past year....
Scopely’s Star Trek: Kobayashi Maru is a browser-based decision-making game where players are tasked with solving the legendary unsolvable challenge from Star Trek lore. In the fictional universe of Star Trek, students at the Starfleet Academy are given the (almost) unwinnable task of defeating a simulated scenario based on a distress call from a ship called the Kobayashi Maru. The purpose of the task, according to canon, is to teach potential officers humility and to allow instructors to gauge their character in a no-win situation....
React JS is a JavaScript framework with 10 years of maturity and a huge community supporting its growth and development. But you shouldn’t learn it in 2022. Here’s why. First, a brief primer: React is currently the most popular front-end framework in the industry. It provides concrete APIs, software design patterns and tooling to help you build web applications faster and in a more maintainable way. A huge community of developers is also continually creating tools and components that you can integrate into your own apps or websites, which adds to its popularity and utility....
If you’re into all things mobility tech, let us lend a helping hand and offer some suggestions for you to check out. 1. The Autonocast If EVs, self-driving vehicles, and autonomy get your motor running, then you should check out the Autonocast It’s a weekly show that discusses some of the industry’s most important topics, and is hosted by TechCrunch senior reporter Kirsten Korosec, TheDrive’s Alex Roy, and Ed Niedermeyer who is the comms director at non-profit PAVE (Partners for Automated Vehicle Education)....
Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions with our students, I find that this group doesn’t only ask “Why?” they ask “How can I fix that?” And their curiosity, independence, energy, and assertiveness are transforming the entrepreneurial space. These post-millennials are less like the bumbling geeks from the cast of the HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” and more in the spirit of a focused problem-solver like a young MacGyver, who would rather invent and innovate as a means to learning and discovery....
A study by the Oxford Internet Institute, as first reported by The New York Times, found that since 2017, organized social media manipulation has more than doubled with at least 70 countries known to be using online propaganda to manipulate mass public opinion, and in some cases, on a global scale. Titled “The Global Disinformation Order,” the research collected information from various news organizations, civil society groups, and governments from around the world to produce a global inventory of social manipulation trends....
Despite Facebook’s efforts to tamp down on the fringe conspiracy QAnon movement, its backers are still finding ways to push its message on the platform — even paying Facebook to do so. Just days after announcing last month that it would ban QAnon theories from the site, Facebook allowed an advertisement featuring a cartoon Pepe the Frog — a character associated with the alt-right political movement— with a message to “Connect with Cue....
[Read: Artist fakes Google Maps traffic jam with 99 phones] Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, were able to trick self-driving cars — including a Tesla Model X — into braking and taking evasive action to avoid “depthless phantom objects.” The image below demonstrates how two-dimensional image projections tricked a Tesla’s Autopilot system into thinking there was a person stood in the road. To the human eye, it’s clear that this is a hologram of sorts, and wouldn’t pose a physical threat, but the car perceives it otherwise....
First reported by Bloomberg late on Sunday, one of Tesla’s key battery partners and suppliers, Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL), has said that it’s ready to start producing a “million-mile” battery. If you’ve been out of the loop, a million-mile battery isn’t one capable of driving a million miles on one charge. In fact, it’s one capable of withstanding enough charging cycles to last for more than a million miles of driving — current batteries struggle to retain charge beyond 1,000 cycles, Tesla’s new battery is expected to exceed this number....
