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Review: RHA’s MA650i are the best Lightning headphones under $60

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 2:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Too much courage can be a bad thing, as iPhone users learned in 2016 when Apple made the shock announcement that the iPhone 7 would ship without a 3.5mm headphone jack. The good news is that you don’t have to use wireless buds or an adapter in order to get a decent audio experience, as demonstrated by the RHA MA650i. This will be a short review. These wired earbuds are essentially the wired equivalent of the RHA MA650 Wireless, which the company released towards the tail-end of 2017, and we subsequently reviewed. The main difference is the RHA MA650i comes…

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Walmart teams up with Big Pharma to track drugs on the blockchain

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 1:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Global retail Goliath Walmart has joined a consortium that’s attempting to build a blockchain for tracking pharmaceutical supply chains. A spokesperson representing the firm confirmed to CoinDesk that Walmart has joined MediLedger, but they did not provide any further comments. MediLedger is aiming to create an “open and decentralized network for the pharmaceutical supply chain,” designed to address the tightening regulations that govern the supply chains of drugs and medications. That said, according to the MediLedger website, network nodes are run and operated by industry participants, so it doesn’t sound entirely open and decentralized. The Drug Supply Chain Security Act…

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Microsoft stops asking you to change your Windows 10 password every 60 days

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Microsoft has finally removed its 60-day password expiration policy from its Windows 10 security baseline, claiming there are better ways to keep users secure. This means organizations using Windows 10 won’t have to force their users to change passwords frequently. In its blog post detailing Windows 10 build, the company said that expiration is a defense only against the probability that a password (or a hash) could be stolen during its validity interval: Recent scientific research calls into question the value of many long-standing password-security practices such as password expiration policies, and points instead to better alternatives such as enforcing banned-password lists (a…

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Twitter ‘accidentally’ blocked accounts of China dissidents ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 11:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Twitter has apologized after it suspended hundreds of accounts that were critical of the Chinese government, merely days ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4. The microblogging service said it suspended “a number of accounts” as part of its efforts to curb various methods of platform manipulation, including “spam and other inauthentic behaviors.” “Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize,” the company’s Public Policy handle tweeted. Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize. We’re working today to ensure we overturn any errors…

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‘Crypto-Twitter’ is explaining Bitcoin in 280 characters or less

Jun03
by on June 3, 2019 at 11:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Self-professed cypherpunk Jameson Lopp has set the cryptocurrency community a seemingly impossible task: efficiently explain Bitcoin in less than 280 characters. A global, neutral payment network that allows anyone on earth to transact a huge or tiny amount of value with anyone else within minutes, without needing to ask permission from a government, without disclosing one’s personal information, and without the possibility of censorship. — Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) June 2, 2019 While some responses, like the one above, were overtly genuine, others were more sarcastic. “Bitcoin is free Internet money that will make everyone rich, automatically solve ethics without any…

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