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A love letter to Codenames – a brilliant, easy-to-pick-up board game

Feb28
by on February 28, 2019 at 10:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


I’m not sure when it happened, but board games are cool again. Yeah, we all liked Cluedo as kids, but when you hit puberty the idea of staring at the Scrabble board, massaging your temples, and desperately trying to think of something better than a three-letter word doesn’t sound great. Hell, you’d rather be in the park, drinking strong white cider, and attempting to clumsily fondle the genitalia of someone you’re freakishly into, but now wouldn’t recognize if you passed them in the street. At some point though, that gets boring. Well, okay, not boring per se, but at least less…

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Angry users call for Coinbase boycott with #DeleteCoinbase after contested acquisition

Feb28
by on February 28, 2019 at 10:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork


Disgruntled cryptocurrency enthusiasts are lobbying to boycott popular exchange Coinbase. Users have taken to social media using the #DeleteCoinbase hashtag, encouraging others to delete their accounts, following a series of perceived mishaps by the US-based company. It comes after Coinbase, founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in June 2012, proudly announced the acquisition of Neutrino, an Italian startup that leveraged public blockchain data to trace cryptocurrency transactions. Coinbase said the startup’s technology, which would help it track illicit activity, would help make cryptocurrency “safer and more accessible for people all over the world.” Things took a twist when some prominent industry…

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1.6% of money laundering cases in Japan involved cryptocurrency in 2018

Feb28
by on February 28, 2019 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


In December last year, reports suggested Japan had seen over 6,000 money laundering cases that involved cryptocurrency in the first nine months of the year. Well, the trend continued. In the last three months of 2018, financial regulators received another 1,000-plus cryptocurrency related cases, taking the yearly total to 7,096 cases, the Japan Times reports. This is of course a dramatic increase over the 669 cases reported between April and December 2017. However, Japan introduced regulations making it easier to report cryptocurrency-based money laundering cases. Which may go someway to explaining the large increase. It’s also worth noting that these…

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Hungary

Feb28
by on February 28, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Tech5


By Gianluca Bellan and Andrea Hak Hungary is a startup hub on the rise. You’ve no doubt already heard of Prezi, the country’s first unicorn, which ended the reign of boring presentations globally by making them more engaging and interactive. The company now has over 100 million users, raised $72.8 million in funding and made its first acquisition in 2017. While not the first Hungarian born startup, Prezi’s success ignited the growth of an innovative startup scene. In the year Prezi was founded, 2009, the country already had its first English language workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs, the Venture Accelerator Course,…

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Toby is my new favorite browser extension for wrangling tabs

Feb28
by on February 28, 2019 at 7:55 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


I’ve written before about my struggles with browser tabs – researching stories and corroborating facts for work frequently requires me to flit between about 50 tabs on any given day. I’ve tried a bunch of extensions to help me manage them – some of which I’m happy to recommend – but I think I might have just found the best one for the job. It’s called Toby, and it’s actually been around for a while. The extension makes it easy to save tabs into collections that you can retrieve and launch from the New Tab page. While other extensions similar…

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