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Here’s the coolest stuff announced at Google I/O 2019

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by on May 8, 2019 at 10:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Google held its annual developer conference yesterday, and it announced tons of cool stuff including new budget pixel devices, Android Q, better privacy controls, and new search features. Here’s a summary of some amazing stuff the company unveiled: New Pixel mid-range phones Google introduced a couple of budget handsets for the first time after it discontinued the Nexus series in 2016. The Pixel 3a and the Pixel 3a XL are similar to their flagship cousins from last year, with the same excellent primary camera, but with stripped-down internals. The company is banking on the promise of regular software updates and…

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Craig Wright’s wife Ramona Ang sues exchange for $3M in Bitcoin losses

May08
by on May 8, 2019 at 10:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


News surfaced yesterday that the wife of Craig Wright, the man famous for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has supposedly lost $3 million worth of Bitcoin following a series of trading mishaps. In court documents from April – spotted by Trustnodes – Ramona Ang claims to have lost the Bitcoin after her trading account on UFX – run by Cyprus-based fintech firm Reliantco – was suspended and closed. Wright’s wife invested in leveraged Bitcoin futures on UFX between January and May 2017, and during a second period between July and August 2017. Ang initially invested around $200,000, which grew to…

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Here’s why Binance can’t erase the $40M hack from Bitcoin’s blockchain

May08
by on May 8, 2019 at 10:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The head of cryptocurrency exchange Binance responded to a 7,000 BTC ($40 million) hack with an outlandish idea: take over the entire Bitcoin blockchain and cancel the transactions. A major digital asset exchange openly colluding with cryptocurrency mining pools to reverse transactions would certainly be bad for PR. It would also critically undermine Bitcoin‘s primary value proposition: that it’s transactions are effectively immutable and censorship-resistant. Binance CEO Changpang Zhao conceded this reality by announcing he’s dropped the idea after consulting with advisors, among them Jihan Wu of the infamous cryptocurrency mining firm Bitmain. “One, we may damage credibility of Bitcoin,” Zhao…

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Customer experience is about emotion, not technology

May08
by on May 8, 2019 at 10:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium, TNW2019


The most amazing event of my life? This is, so far, undoubtedly the birth of my son. The whole experience did something strange to me. I can precisely remember the hours leading up to his birth. How we woke up, drove to the hospital, the conversations we had. I even remember the smell of the early morning when we walked outside. I can describe the events from minute to minute. No, it’s not that I have the memory of an elephant, the human brain is just wired to store awe-inspiring emotional experiences differently — as discovered by brain researchers at…

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Inside the company building holographic offices ….. in a holographic office

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by on May 8, 2019 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Work2030


When I meet Maximilian Doele, CEO of HoloMeeting, we are in his ‘room.’ Normally I don’t do my TNW interviews in person, certainly not in my interviewee’s room, but this is not your normal meeting or your normal room. Doele’s ‘person’ is a holographic disembodied head and shoulders and his room is a virtual lobby designed to enable watercooler meetings in the remote workplace. I’m in New York and Doele is in Germany. Doele and his company, HoloMeeting, think this is the future of work. Remote working is booming The world is quickly moving towards mobile and remote work. 43…

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