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Here’s an explainer about soft forks you’ll actually understand

Jan23
by on January 23, 2019 at 9:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Hard Fork Basics


Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in recent months, you will have come across a lot of debate about ‘forks’. In programming terms, a fork is a word used to describe a technical event that takes place when participants on a network must agree on a set of common rules. Forks can be hard or soft. In this article, Hard Fork is going to take a look at what soft forks are, and…

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Viral images of the Nairobi terror attack victims failed journalism

Jan23
by on January 23, 2019 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


An article by the New York Times on the Riverside terrorist attacks in Nairobi has provoked fury and consternation in Kenya. The article features a photograph by AP credited to the photographer Khalil Senusi showing bodies of victims of the attack slumped on chairs and covered in blood. A similar photograph has also been used by UK’s Daily Mail online with faces of the victims pixelated. Public criticism was initially directed at the author of the article, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, who according to her Twitter handle, is the newspaper’s in-coming bureau chief for East Africa. She dismissed the criticism telling…

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Viral images of the Nairobi terror attack victims failed journalism

Jan23
by on January 23, 2019 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


An article by the New York Times on the Riverside terrorist attacks in Nairobi has provoked fury and consternation in Kenya. The article features a photograph by AP credited to the photographer Khalil Senusi showing bodies of victims of the attack slumped on chairs and covered in blood. A similar photograph has also been used by UK’s Daily Mail online with faces of the victims pixelated. Public criticism was initially directed at the author of the article, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, who according to her Twitter handle, is the newspaper’s in-coming bureau chief for East Africa. She dismissed the criticism telling…

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Phone makers are going all-in on foldables, but I’m skeptical

Jan23
by on January 23, 2019 at 8:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


We’re less than a month away from Samsung‘s next big hardware event, where it’s expected to reveal – if not officially launch – its foldable phone. I believe it’ll steer the conversation about mobile device design away from notches and bezel-less displays in 2019, but I wonder if this is the best way forward for portable gadgets. It’s worth noting the Korean giant isn’t the first to this new form factor: China’s Royole unveiled its Flexpai at CES earlier this month (and elsewhere around the world through the end of 2018). While it packed plenty of power and came with a truly…

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Lorian Synaro of Anonymous explains the motive behind #OpSudan and #OpZimbabwe

Jan23
by on January 23, 2019 at 8:00 am
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Over the past week, Zimbabwe has experienced citizens protesting over raised fuel prices and high living costs. While in Sudan protests about the country’s economic problems and President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year term started in December 2018. In both cases, the governments resorted to shutting down the internet as a method to restrain citizens from speaking freely on social media and other online platforms. Also, in both Sudan and Zimbabwe, the authorities have unleashed security forces on citizens resulting in deaths and severe injuries of protesting citizens. Both protests and internet shutdowns caught the attention of various global media organizations, and also the attention…

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