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Blizzard tweaks loot boxes in Heroes of the Storm amid gambling controversy

Mar26
by on March 26, 2019 at 4:20 pm
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Players of Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm noticed something in the latest patch notes: the developers were removing the ability to buy loot boxes with real money. Given the battle that game publishers are fighting with officials across the globe over loot boxes, it’s possible this is an sign of things to come — an experiment Blizzard is running with one of its smaller games that could prevent trouble for its bigger ones, and gauge how an invested community of gamers will respond. According to the Heroes patch notes, “Loot chests are no longer available for Gem purchase… Rare loot chests…

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CERN’s new study brings us closer to understanding antimatter and why we exist

Mar26
by on March 26, 2019 at 4:05 pm
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Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our new experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out. To understand why, let’s go back in time some 13.8 billion years to the Big Bang. This event produced equal amounts of the matter you are made of and something called antimatter. It is believed that every particle has an antimatter companion that is virtually identical to itself, but with the opposite charge. When a particle…

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CERN’s new study brings us closer to understanding antimatter and why we exist

Mar26
by on March 26, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our new experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out. To understand why, let’s go back in time some 13.8 billion years to the Big Bang. This event produced equal amounts of the matter you are made of and something called antimatter. It is believed that every particle has an antimatter companion that is virtually identical to itself, but with the opposite charge. When a particle…

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Google accidentally promoted a malicious Bitcoin wallet on YouTube

Mar26
by on March 26, 2019 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Google-owned YouTube inadvertently advertized an illegitimate version of the Bitcoin wallet Electrum. A Redditor unearthed the issue, noting how the malicious advert was disguised to resemble a real Electrum advertisement. “It even tells you to go the correct link (electrum.org) in the video but when you click on the advertisement it immediately starts downloading the malicious exe file,” the Redditor said. The malicious advert would redirect unsuspecting users to elecktrum.org. The real address it should have directed users to is electrum.org. The scam uses a popular scamming method known as typosquatting, whereby a company’s or product’s original domain name is slightly altered to take…

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Google accidentally promoted a malicious Bitcoin wallet on YouTube

Mar26
by on March 26, 2019 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Google-owned YouTube inadvertently advertized an illegitimate version of the Bitcoin wallet Electrum. A Redditor unearthed the issue, noting how the malicious advert was disguised to resemble a real Electrum advertisement. “It even tells you to go the correct link (electrum.org) in the video but when you click on the advertisement it immediately starts downloading the malicious exe file,” the Redditor said. The malicious advert would redirect unsuspecting users to elecktrum.org. The real address it should have directed users to is electrum.org. The scam uses a popular scamming method known as typosquatting, whereby a company’s or product’s original domain name is slightly altered to take…

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