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Bad news for anyone who wanted that ridiculous Energizer phone

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 2:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Hello! Cast your mind back a few months to February, when we encountered a ridiculous Energizer-branded smartphone at MWC. Measuring several inches thick and packing a bonkers 18,000 mAh battery, it was easily the most memorable gadget from the show. Do you remember how thick it was? Remember how holding the Energizer P18K Pop felt like you were carrying a thick paperback book filled with turgid Serbian poetry? Remember how Samsung and Huawei were touting phones that literally bended, and everyone was like, “nope, this is weirder?” And do you remember how, deep down, you kinda wanted one? Well, I’ve…

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Bitcoin ‘anonymization’ is up 300% this year

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Bitcoiners are using cryptocurrency mixers three times more often than they were nine months ago. Mixed cryptocurrency transactions – or CoinJoins – now account for over 4 percent of all Bitcoin transactions, according to a report from blockchain data firm Long Hash. CoinJoin or mixing services group many transactions together before sending the correct amounts to their final destinations. In doing so, it attempts to obscure the connection between the sender and recipient in each transaction. When measured against the total monthly Bitcoin transactions, the number of CoinJoin transactions over the past 30 days is three times the volume it…

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CHEAP: Samsung’s Galaxy Watch range has some BEEFY DISCOUNTS

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:28 pm
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Smartwatches face a simple, important question: why? As cool as the tech is, why does anyone need one? Especially when many of the devices are so expensive. Well, we have a solution to part of that problem: here’s a whole load of smartwatch discounts. Yes, that’s right, the Samsung Galaxy Watch range is currently on offer. This includes 10 percent off the new Galaxy Watch Active, making it a very reasonable $180, and the 46mm Galaxy Watch for under $300, saving you $50. Let’s start…

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Tumblr’s Head of Culture and Fashion shares the platform’s most curious subcultures

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, creative, distract, Social Media, TNW Answers


Valentine Uhovski started his career as an editor and journalist, and has written for the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Interview Russia. He’s now in his eighth year manning the helm of Tumblr‘s Culture and Fashion verticals. Since joining, he’s helped to foster and shape Tumblr‘s community of millions of creators worldwide and has worked with countless big name brands, designers, and artists to build their Tumblr presence. Uhovski wound up on the social platform by accident, he told Ad Age: “I never dreamt that I was going to work at a tech company focused on fashion.”  And what…

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How Facebook plans to keep your data private while opening it up to researchers

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Ever since the 2016 US presidential elections, social network Facebook has been at the receiving end of criticism for its outsized influence on worldwide electoral processes, and threats to democracy from the spread of fake news. Now more than a year after Facebook announced a new initiative to aid independent research analyzing the platform’s influence on elections, the company has made good on its promise by opening up its data for the first time to more than 60 researchers from 30 academic institutions across 11 countries. To that effect, it has outlined a differential privacy-based approach that it expects will…

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