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Bitcoin is the world’s most dangerous idea. Really?

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, bitcoin, India, Insider

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Bitcoin, and the technology that powers it, has been called many things in the few years it has existed. Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services said the cryptocurrency created, “a virtual Wild West for narco-traffickers and other criminals.” Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman asked himself in one of his weekly columns for the New York Times if Bitcoin isn’t just “evil“. In the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Five reasons why Bitcoin is the most dangerous currency in the world’ they terrify right-leaning web browsers by claiming assassins around the world are murdering people for Bitcoins and that…

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Bitcoin is the world’s most dangerous idea. Really?

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, bitcoin, India, Insider

bitcoin
Bitcoin, and the technology that powers it, has been called many things in the few years it has existed. Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services said the cryptocurrency created, “a virtual Wild West for narco-traffickers and other criminals.” Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman asked himself in one of his weekly columns for the New York Times if Bitcoin isn’t just “evil“. In the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Five reasons why Bitcoin is the most dangerous currency in the world’ they terrify right-leaning web browsers by claiming assassins around the world are murdering people for Bitcoins and that…

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Google Play partners with Lionsgate to give Mad Men an interactive send off

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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After eight years of whiskey swigging and sordid affairs, Mad Men is coming to an end on May 17. To celebrate the occasion, the show’s production company Lionsgate has partnered with Google Play to debut ‘The Mad Men Experience.’ The website is set to be an “interactive, art-exhibit-style” experience with a look back at memorable moments, insights into characters, rare artwork, interviews, commentaries and other unseen content. It’s notable that this is the first time Google Play has formed such a partnership with a TV show, capitalising on what was a consistent source of steady traffic for its search engine…

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Facebook’s recent pushy birthday notifications were actually a bug

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Have you noticed how insistent Facebook has been lately about reminding you of your friends’ birthdays? Usually, it’s one notification per birthday but recently people (myself included) have been getting multiple reminders about the same birthdays in various formats. While one notification is often a handy hint, the sheer number of them had me tearing my hair out. Luckily for us, Facebook confirmed to Slate that it was actually a bug and it has now been amended. So, whether you signed up on purpose or by accident, you’ll only be getting one bump from now on. And a top tip…

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This guy spent $10,000+ on Steve Jobs’ old business cards to promote his app

May11
by on May 11, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Business Cards, NeXT, Pixar, Shareables, Social Media

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The Marin School in San Rafael, California had an auction to raise funds earlier this month and one lot was particularly interesting – three of Steve Jobs’ business cards. Now we know who bought them. Tim Knowles, the CEO of Stacks.co, which is not even remotely coincidentally an app that’s trying to “revolutionize business cards”, paid $10,500 for the privilege of framing them. He told me: If there was ever a business card to have in your rolodex – it would certainly be Steve’s – we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing right now if it wasn’t for him!…

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