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Cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX given 30-day lifeline to find ‘lost’ $134M

Feb06
by on February 6, 2019 at 11:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Troubled cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX has been granted an order for creditor protection by a Canadian supreme court. The court-issued order means QuadrigaCX will have 30 days of initial protection from its creditors to allow it to come up with a ‘Plan of Arrangement’. The time period can be extended by the court if QuadrigaCX is able to demonstrate that it will likely file a Plan of Arrangement and the extension is not damaging to creditors. Based in Vancouver, QuadrigaCX ran into trouble after the reported sudden death of its founder and sole director Gerald Cotten, which meant the exchange was…

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Google’s new extension tells you if your passwords have been compromised

Feb06
by on February 6, 2019 at 11:36 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google


Google’s just launched a new Chrome browser extension that’s designed to help protect your online accounts from intruders. It really should just be built into the browser, but until that happens, you’ll want to install it – and hopefully never see it again. The Password Checkup extension is triggered every time you sign into a site; when you enter your info, it looks up a database of more than 4 billion credentials that have been known to have been part of a data breach or leak. If it finds a match, it’ll display an alert asking you to change your…

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How WhatsApp fights spam without ever reading your messages

Feb06
by on February 6, 2019 at 11:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


There are more than 1.5 billion people using WhatsApp, and sadly, some of them are your relatives spamming you with bad jokes and flowery ‘good morning’ messages. Then there are other kinds of spammers, bots, and people, who try to clutter your message box with automated messages. The company today released a whitepaper stating that it removes over two million such accounts every month, and 75 percent of that is a result of the app’s strong machine learning algorithm. In a session with journalists in India, the company’s software engineer, Matt Jones, explained that abusers use many techniques – including…

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Spain

Feb06
by on February 6, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Tech5


In the past decade, Spain suffered a significant economic setback with a crippling recession, the bankruptcy of a number of major companies and the highest unemployment rate in the EU (27% at its height). But this didn’t get the Spanish population down, instead, it fueled the birth of one of Europe’s most innovative entrepreneurial climates. Thankfully, Spain’s economy has now returned to its pre-crisis state and this can be partially attributed to the growth of its vibrant tech scene. In 2018 alone Spanish startups received a record-breaking €1.3 billion in investments. With Berlin becoming too expensive and London too fintech…

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