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Crackdown 3 is like a sugary treat with no filling

Feb14
by on February 14, 2019 at 6:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Crackdown 3 is a game for action fiends, the sort who don’t want any of that pesky “story” or “depth” to get in the way of their next dopamine release. It may not be the smartest or most sophisticated game to come out this year, but goddamn is it fun. This is by far the most colorful of the games hitting the market this week. In fact, if Metro Exodus is a gritty, gloomy HBO special, then Crackdown 3 is a bright, playful Saturday morning cartoon. Good guys are good, bad guys are bad, and the morally upright hero can…

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Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think

Feb14
by on February 14, 2019 at 4:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can also get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! On January 1st, 1997, Nicolas Negroponte emailed a column to Wired Magazine in which he outlined out a vision for the future of books. I read that column and remember being inspired but also impatient because it was talking about a distant future. Here’s a quote from the column explaining how he thought digital paper might one day…

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JP Morgan’s new digital ‘coin’ is not a cryptocurrency, or even a stablecoin

Feb14
by on February 14, 2019 at 4:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


JP Morgan has a new digital asset, JPM Coin. It’s not really a cryptocurrency, and it’s not quite a stablecoin, but it does use a blockchain. It’s mostly referred to as a digital coin. Still, JPMCoin is set to square off against all the other redeemable bank tokens in the market, eventually. Announced today via a flurry of reports, JPM Coin’s drawcards are listed as each token being redeemable for fiat, and that its powered by a “blockchain,” specifically Quorum, a distributed ledger platform developed by JP Morgan and some of its partners. The network powering JPM Coin will be entirely…

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JP Morgan’s new digital ‘coin’ is not a cryptocurrency, or even a stablecoin

Feb14
by on February 14, 2019 at 4:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


JP Morgan has a new digital asset, JPM Coin. It’s not really a cryptocurrency, and it’s not quite a stablecoin, but it does use a blockchain. It’s mostly referred to as a digital coin. Still, JPMCoin is set to square off against all the other redeemable bank tokens in the market, eventually. Announced today via a flurry of reports, JPM Coin’s drawcards are listed as each token being redeemable for fiat, and that its powered by a “blockchain,” specifically Quorum, a distributed ledger platform developed by JP Morgan and some of its partners. The network powering JPM Coin will be entirely…

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Cryptocurrency influencers are even worse than normal influencers

Feb14
by on February 14, 2019 at 12:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Tech marketers have been using celebrity endorsements for decades – Microsoft and Apple have relied on this method to flock their goods to the masses since the ’80s – and the cryptocurrency industry, although nascent, is no different. In the beginning, one could argue the objective was to put a friendly, familiar face on a product to make it more relatable to the average consumer. Today, it’s much more about the cool factor and reinforcing the link created between the endorser, the product, and the consumer. We live in a world where celebrities, or the new generation of influencers, are…

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