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Google forces Nest users to use Google accounts, raising privacy concerns

May13
by on May 13, 2019 at 11:03 am
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The Nest smart home ecosystem as we know it is dead. At its annual Google I/O developers conference last week, the search giant announced a broader restructuring of its smart home lineup that was long coming. Gone is the Google Home brand, as is the standalone Nest, which it acquired in 2014. In its place is the new Google Nest. The latest rebranding is the result of a shakeup that brought the Nest and Google Hardware teams together February last year. But in a separate announcement, Google will discontinue the Works with Nest program on August 31 this year, effectively…

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Bitcoin’s price is having a great 2019; altcoins, not so much

May13
by on May 13, 2019 at 10:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Bitcoin‘s most-recent pump to $7,000 was the strongest price rally over a six-week period since just before the famous 2017 bull-run, reports boutique analytics firm Delphi Digital. It also means Bitcoin has officially recovered all of its losses from November 2018’s monstrous market dumping, when the price of BTC fell more than 50 percent in a matter of weeks. Bitcoin is dominating the cryptocurrency market In recent commentary, which has been shared with Hard Fork, Delphi Digital noted that the wider market has failed to keep up with Bitcoin‘s recent pace. As it turns out, most of the cryptocurrency market‘s increased value can…

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Bitcoin’s price is having a great 2019; altcoins, not so much

May13
by on May 13, 2019 at 10:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Bitcoin‘s most-recent pump to $7,000 was the strongest price rally over a six-week period since just before the famous 2017 bull-run, reports boutique analytics firm Delphi Digital. It also means Bitcoin has officially recovered all of its losses from November 2018’s monstrous market dumping, when the price of BTC fell more than 50 percent in a matter of weeks. Bitcoin is dominating the cryptocurrency market In recent commentary, which has been shared with Hard Fork, Delphi Digital noted that the wider market has failed to keep up with Bitcoin‘s recent pace. As it turns out, most of the cryptocurrency market‘s increased value can…

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Airbnbeware: Amsterdam tourists got a dirty shipping container instead of €134 ‘clean home’

May13
by on May 13, 2019 at 10:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Airbnb is notoriously disruptive; whether it’s revolutionizing the hotel industry, causing housing shortages, or unveiling humans’ endless capacity for greed — which has hit an all time low now in Amsterdam. Ben Speller showed up to Amsterdam to see the Tottenham Hotspurs boot out Ajax in the Champions League (sad), only to find out the €134 ($150) “clean home with private bathroom” was a shipping container. A shitty container propped up on the side of the road. In an interview with Amsterdam news site AT5, Speller said he walked away as soon as he opened the depressing container. After Speller…

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Airbnbeware: Amsterdam tourists got a dirty shipping container instead of €134 ‘clean home’

May13
by on May 13, 2019 at 10:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Airbnb is notoriously disruptive; whether it’s revolutionizing the hotel industry, causing housing shortages, or unveiling humans’ endless capacity for greed — which has hit an all time low now in Amsterdam. Ben Speller showed up to Amsterdam to see the Tottenham Hotspurs boot out Ajax in the Champions League (sad), only to find out the €134 ($150) “clean home with private bathroom” was a shipping container. A shitty container propped up on the side of the road. In an interview with Amsterdam news site AT5, Speller said he walked away as soon as he opened the depressing container. After Speller…

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