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CHEAP: Smarten up your house with a Google Home Hub for just $87 (down from $149)

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by on May 7, 2019 at 12:58 pm
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When you’re busy cooking, looking up a recipe on your phone or watching it on YouTube can be a messy affair with sticky hands. You can do all this and more – hands-free – by snapping up a Google Home Hub for just $87, down from the original price of $149. The smart display has Google Assistant built-in to help you with to-dos, reminders, and searches via voice commands. It also has a 7-inch touchscreen to display all your content and answers to your questions. And at that size, it’s handy for watching recipe videos on YouTube in your kitchen.…

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Microsoft releases Visual Studio dev kit for Ethereum dapps

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by on May 7, 2019 at 11:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Microsoft is further broadening its suite of enterprise-grade blockchain tools with the launch of a Visual Studio development kit for Ethereum and its own Azure blockchain. The Redmond giant tech firm officially announced the launch of the dev kit in a blog post yesterday, as spotted by CoinDesk. The dev kit will provide an environment in which programmers can build dapps for the public Ethereum blockchain and the Azure Blockchain Service. It also comes bundled with open-source blockchain tools like Solidity and Truffle, which means smart contracts can be built directly into an app. For the seasoned devs out there,…

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Bitcoin miners earn $305M in April as transaction fees jump 250%

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by on May 7, 2019 at 10:29 am
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Bitcoin miners earned $291 million through ‘block rewards’ in April, marking a 30-percent monthly revenue increase, reports research unit Diar. They collected an additional $14 million with Bitcoin transaction fees, 250 percent more than in March. The Bitcoin network rewards miners for successfully adding blocks to its blockchain with 12.5 BTC ($73.6K). In less than 400 days, that amount will halve to just 6.25 BTC. With this in mind, last month’s income jump can be attributed to Bitcoin’s steadily-increasing value, which has risen from $4,100 to over $5,900 since the start of April. Diar also highlighted a significant uptick in Bitcoin usage, which…

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Twitter will now let you add pictures, GIFs, and videos to RTs

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by on May 7, 2019 at 9:54 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider


Starting today, Twitter will now let you add pictures, videos, or GIFs to your retweets with comments. This update is rolling out to its iOS, Android, and mobile web app worldwide. In a strange way of showing off the feature, the company responded to one of the users’ older tweets demanding the feature, with a GIF. The wait is over 👇😘 https://t.co/3W0witaZtg pic.twitter.com/v7J6WgRioD — Twitter (@Twitter) May 6, 2019 Here’s how it works: Just hit the retweet button on any of tweets and select Retweet with comment. You can pick a picture, video, or GIF along with some text as…

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Amazon sued for discriminating against pregnant warehouse workers

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by on May 7, 2019 at 9:21 am
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Retail behemoth Amazon has been entangled in a fresh controversy for the way it treats its warehouse workers. According a new CNET investigation by Alfred Ng and Ben Fox Rubin, it has been found that the company has faced at least seven lawsuits from pregnant women over the last eight years alleging wrongful termination because of their pregnancies. The lawsuits accuse warehouse managers of being unwilling to accommodate the needs of pregnant workers. “The requests included longer bathroom breaks and fewer continuous hours on their feet, according to the lawsuits, but in all of the cases the expectant mothers were…

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