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Video: Welcome to the wild world of… wood sander racing?

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This video is part of our series on Lille’s Maker Faire. To stay up-to-date on releases (and to find out more), check out our master post here. Humanity has raced for millennia. Humans racing humans. Humans racing horses. Humans racing dogs. Humans racing pigeons. Just race on race on race, forever – endlessly testing each other’s speed. But, there’s a certain, magical type of racing previously unexplored. So, welcome one and all to… uh, wood sander racing? It works like this. There’s a wooden track with space for two sanders. These are connected to an extension cord, which is in turn…

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Bitcoin’s creator totally turns 44 today – happy birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 11:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Yo, Satoshi Nakamoto. Wherever (and whoever) you are, if you read this (for whatever reason): happy birthday. You deserve a celebration. While we don’t really know much about Nakamoto, Bitcoin‘s pseudonymous creator, they were “thoughtful” enough to leave behind some fun “facts” for us to obsess over, like their supposed “birthday.” Upon creation of their P2P Foundation online profile, Nakamoto‘s date of birth was listed as April 5, 1975. It also claimed he was a man living in Japan, in which case — お誕生日おめでとうビットコイン先生! Nakamoto, master of historic contextual references? On this day in 1933, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt took advantage of…

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Bosch’s new blockchain smart fridge is a pretty dumb idea

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 10:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Brace yourself for the most disruptive piece of technology you’ve ever seen: a blockchain fridge. Electronics giant Bosch has teamed up with Austria’s leading energy provider Wien Energie to build a cutting-edge fridge that logs where its energy comes from on the blockchain. Wien Energie says fridge owners will also be able to control the device, view its energy consumption, and choose the energy source that powers the appliance via an app. Putting blockchain aside, this fridge from Bosch and Wien Energie doesn’t really bring anything new to the table as far as features go. Its creators claim its main…

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Bosch’s new blockchain smart fridge is a pretty dumb idea

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 10:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Brace yourself for the most disruptive piece of technology you’ve ever seen: a blockchain fridge. Electronics giant Bosch has teamed up with Austria’s leading energy provider Wien Energie to build a cutting-edge fridge that logs where its energy comes from on the blockchain. Wien Energie says fridge owners will also be able to control the device, view its energy consumption, and choose the energy source that powers the appliance via an app. Putting blockchain aside, this fridge from Bosch and Wien Energie doesn’t really bring anything new to the table as far as features go. Its creators claim its main…

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