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WATCH: Bitcoin ATM showers London’s Bond Street station in cash money

Jun07
by on June 7, 2019 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


No, this isn’t a new Anderson Paak video. In a bizarre scene, footage shows a Bitcoin ATM spewing heaps of cash in a shopping centre nearby London’s Bond Street train station, while a security guard does their best to keep onlookers at bay. The video of the curious incident was first posted to Reddit late yesterday. A man is seen desperately trying to catch as many flowing bank notes as possible with a duffel bag placed in front of the machine (spoiler: it doesn’t work).   While Redditors speculate bad actors could have caused the eruption with “jackpotting” (a term for…

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India’s wants to make 40% cabs electric by 2026 to meet climate change goals

Jun07
by on June 7, 2019 at 8:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India


The Indian government is planning to order rideshare companies like Ola and Uber to convert 40 percent of their fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2026, according to a report from Reuters. According to sources and documents obtained from meetings, the authorities will order the companies to adopt to electric vehicles gradually: 2.5 percent by 2021, 5 percent by 2022, 10 percent by 2023, and 40 percent by 2024.  What’s more, the government might introduce a rule that all vehicles sold for commercial purposes after April 2026 should be electric. The rule will also apply to new motorcycles and scooters used…

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Twitter’s simplified policies won’t help fix its underlying abuse problem

Jun07
by on June 7, 2019 at 7:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Brevity is baked into the way we tweet, but now Twitter is implementing this philosophy on its own rules. The social microblogging platform has updated, reorganized, and shortened its regulations in an attempt to make it clear for users to understand what is and isn’t acceptable on the service. “We’ve gone from about 2,500 words to under 600. In 280 characters or less, each rule clearly describes exactly what is not allowed on Twitter,” wrote Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of trust and safety, in a blog post announcing the changes. Although the broad high-level categories — safety, privacy and authenticity…

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