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Citibank ditches plans for its own cryptocurrency, bets on SWIFT instead

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 3:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


One of the world’s top 20 banks by asset value, is ditching plans to create its own digital asset – and abandoning all of its cryptocurrency experiments. Instead, it’s betting on a SWIFT. Citibank is not following in the footsteps of JP Morgan with the creation of its own cryptocurrency, believing there are better ways of making improvements to existing financial transaction systems, CoinDesk reports. “Based on our learnings from that experiment we actually decided to make meaningful improvements in the existing rails,” said Citibank global head of innovations for treasury and trade solutions, Gulru Atak. “We are considering the…

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CHEAP: Quick, this Bose Bluetooth speaker is cheaper than it’s ever been

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our brand-new series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Right, we’ve got a great deal for you today: a full $40 (20 percent) off the Bose SoundLink Revolve Bluetooth speaker. This means it’s only $159.99. What are you waiting for? Go, go, go! It’s my belief that everyone needs a portable Bluetooth speaker. Seriously. I use mine every single day, and I shudder to think of the times I didn’t have a little music cylinder following me everywhere. To put this bluntly, the Bose SoundLink Revolve is one of the best examples of this tech around.…

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Apple finally updates the iPad Mini and iPad Air after 3.5 years

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 1:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


With little fanfare, Apple today announced major (and, dare I say, long overdue) updates to the iPad Mini and the iPad Air. The iPad Air is perhaps the most surprising of the lot. Apple officially discontinued the model in 2017, in favor of the 2017 iPad. However, the revived iPad Air is an entirely different beast, sitting halfway between the old one and the more aspirational iPad Pro models. In addition to Apple Pencil support, it packs a larger 10.5-inch display. This is a slight increase on the 9.7-inch display found on the iPad Air 2. Apple says this has…

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Why you should care about public computers disappearing from libraries

Mar18
by on March 18, 2019 at 12:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK


While I was growing up, a weekend wasn’t complete without a trip to the library. With my allowance jingling in my pocket, I could rent a VHS or CD for just a few coins. And, of course, books were free (provided you returned them on time, which I seldom did). But now, in a world with Netflix and Amazon Kindle, libraries have lost their shine. For me, it’s nostalgia, but for millions of low-income people, they serve as an essential connection to the digital world. Public libraries allow them to access worlds of knowledge, and crucially, government services that have…

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