Damn, now this is a deal. Yep, you can currently get $100 off an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S10e, S10, or S10+. Or, if you’re happy to sign up to a mobile network with your purchase, you can get up to $200 off the price of the Galaxy S10 range. On top of this discount, you also get a full year of YouTube premium thrown into the mix, something that’s worth $11....
Mu Changchun, deputy director of payments at China’s central bank, explained the country was issuing its digital currency “to protect our monetary sovereignty and legal currency status,” Reuters reports. “We need to plan ahead for a rainy day,” Mu added. It’s likely these concerns reflect those of the European Central Bank. Earlier this week, a representative claimed that Facebook’s Libra could undermine its power if it was readily adopted, as it could reduce overall demand for the Euro....
The arrest was made after the police received a phone call from Daqing Oilfield, located in Haerken district (Tsitsihar, China) on May 28th. According to a local media report, the man laid an electricity cable through a fish pond to steal the power from the oil well. In order to verify the claims, the police used a drone to conduct an airborne investigation and eventually discovered a small metal mining rig containing 20 Bitcoin mining machines....
The firm is laying off more than a hundred employees, and according to Bloomberg, only some five to 10 of them remain. Reich, who has been with CollegeHumor since 2006, plans to continue working on CollegeHumor content as well as numerous other other comedy ventures and shows launched by the company in recent years, like Dropout, Drawfee, and Dorkly. That’s the end of an era for one of the old-school powerhouses of viral content on the internet....
Content needs to be obviously relevant to its audience. Sometimes we get caught up in what we want to say, we forget to ensure the readers will be able to see themselves in what we create. I’ll explain why this is so important and how you can incorporate this principle in all types of content. The importance of relating to your audience People listen and engage more when they “see themselves” in the content you’ve produced....
The proposal forms part of a series of measures seeking to improve the country’s deepening criss exacerbated by US sanctions. The new measures were announced this week by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his government on state-run TV and promise to raise income for around a quarter of the population. The objective is to increase national supply and demand with a view of boosting growth as sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump target foreign investment and tourism....
A designer from the Twitter team showed some concepts that depict different profiles — called “Facets” — for different kinds of tweeting. The first idea shows a user named Brad with different profiles such as Brad, Brad at work, and Daddy Braddy (which is a private profile mode). Followers can follow your whole profile, or specific Facets. We’re exploring a bunch of ways to control who can see your Tweets....
The 11th Gen chips offer better performance-per-watt than their predecessors, translating to either faster computing or longer battery life for the same performance. The i5 and i7 configurations use Intel’s new Xe graphics, which are already showing to be a dramatic improvement over Intel’s prior integrated graphics. It’s enough of a jump to beat some low-end dedicated cards and catch up to AMD’s recent dominance in that regard. I’ll refer you to AnandTech‘s benchmarks for more on that....
However, data from the app analytics platform SensorTower suggests that Indians haven’t really stopped downloading China-based apps. A total of four apps appear in the top 15 downloaded apps from May 25 to June 14 including Bytedance-owned TikTok and Helo, Tencent’s PUBG Mobile battle royale game, and UVideo. Two Indian apps featuring in the top 15 are Aarogya Setu and Ludo King. Neither app has any notable Chinese competitors. TikTok is one of the apps that has faced scrutiny in the past couple of weeks....
For all the techniques and analytics and advanced systems for driving up digital sales, most online marketing comes back to a few basic points. Are you addressing potential customers with the correct message? Are you building the right infrastructure to deliver those messages? And finally — and most importantly — are your contacts clear and well-written enough to be persuasive? They’re simple steps, yet overall, a tall order for many business owners trying to build their online brand....
His brand is excruciatingly simple, yet perfectly executed: no matter what he says, you’re always left wondering if there’s an “lol j/k” coming. There almost never is, especially when there should be. Take this tweet for example: — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 19, 2022 Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the holy grail of computer science. Essentially, an AGI would be capable of anything a human is, given the same access....
On June 30, short selling outfit Hindenburg Research published a report that alleged J2’s “opaque approach” to acquiring companies “opened the door to egregious insider self-enrichment.” The New York-based Hindenburg calculated J2 has acquired 186 businesses in its 25-year history, but its report drew particular attention to one deal: an undisclosed $900,000 paid to a J2 exec for an entity that had no employees or apparent assets. [Read: Watch Tesla’s meteoric rise — set to techno-remixed Elon Musk tweets] Hindenburg also claimed J2 recently committed $200 million in shareholder cash to a “newly-formed investment vehicle” operated by supposed company chairman Jeroen van der Weijden....
A total of 574 green startups from the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Norway (the five Postcode Lotteries countries) submitted their business plan for the 2021 Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge competition. The top 25 entries were announced over the summer, with the five finalists named in September. Don’t miss out on this exciting virtual event This year’s final of the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge will be held on Thursday, 14 October from 11-12 CEST....
As we browse the internet each day, we consume hours of video content, share silly GIFs with friends, and send ridiculous selfies. It’s safe to say our brains are hardwired to love images – we are visual creatures after all! That’s what makes Vimeo, Giphy, and Snapchat some of the tech world’s most successful companies – and they’re all coming to our tech festival on October 1 and 2. The speaker lineup is filling up nicely for TNW2020 – with many more exciting names to come....
If you’re not familiar with formaldehyde, it is a widespread, toxic compound and known carcinogen. It’s used in all sorts of products and materials, including furniture, matresses, paint, and more. It’s sometimes used in food, and your body even produces it. Thankfully, it also tends to dissipate and break down quite down quite quickly, but in large amounts it can cause serious health problems. According to the American Cancer Society: On a less serious level, it can also cause allergies and irritation....
Musk noted that when the Berlin plant — which will likely open next year — will use a larger cylindrical 4680 format cell in its new structural battery pack. The company had unveiled this cell design at its recent Battery Day event last month. We’d previously learned that this fourth Gigafactory is slated to begin producing a revamped Model Y with a “radical redesign” of its “core technology” in the second half of 2021, so that’s where this battery will be implemented....
The parent company of DX.Exchange, which traded asset-backed tokenized shares of Nasdaq listed companies, is entering bankruptcy after 78 of its staff petitioned to an Israeli court to “wind it up,” The Times of Israel reports. The petition, dated October 24, alleges that an Israeli company called CX Technologies Ltd. is behind DX.Exchange, rather than an Estonian firm as listed on the exchange’s website. Furthermore, the petition claims that employee salaries for September and October were not paid....
This matters, because electric transport will be vital in our efforts to stem climate change. If all cars on the road became powered by renewable electricity, we’d cut almost one-fifth of our emissions. We’d also be much better placed to weather spikes in oil prices linked to war, and enjoy cleaner air and quieter cities. It’s promising news that electric vehicles are shaping up as an election issue at last, with Labor promising a national EV charging network at its campaign launch, and the Greens promising rebates of up to $15,000 for EV purchases, while the Liberal Party last year reversed its previous scepticism and launched a smaller charging network policy....
Additionally, a report from Bloomberg revealed that the second executive in question was the company’s former comms head, Steven Wymer. Six former eBay employees, including members of its security team, have been accused of an extended campaign of harassment against a married couple who criticized the company in a newsletter. Two of the alleged conspirators have been arrested and face federal charges of cyberstalking. The charges have been leveled against six eBay executives, led by James Baugh, eBay’s then-senior director of safety & security, and David Harville, then-director of global resiliency....
In a press release from last week (spotted by CoinDesk), the company announced it has developed a blockchain-powered platform for tracking the authenticity and origins of wine. The system, which is based on EY’s suite of blockchain tools Ops Chain, makes it possible to “determine the quality, provenance, and authenticity of new and vintage wines.” The solution – called the TATTOO Wine Platform – will “focus on markets in China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore....
