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How to find and share your top Instagram posts from 2018

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by on December 14, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Basics, Social Media


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Since there’s only two weeks until the end of year, there’s no better time to sit back, relax, and reflect on what was probably the worst year ever — filled with terrible political decisions.  To commemorate your 2018, what better way is there than looking back at your year on Instagram and seeing your top nine best performing posts? How to see your 9 most popular Instagram posts from this year Instead of manually…

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Amazon’s selling Chromecasts again — a year after it said it would

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by on December 14, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


I know you’ve spent the past year counting down the days, but it’s here. The time has finally arrived. Yes, you got it right, you can now buy a Chromecast on Amazon. Again. Google’s streaming device is one of the most popular in its field, but it hasn’t been sold by Amazon in years. The reason? “Customer confusion.” The confusion in this case being that the Chromecast didn’t “interact well” with Prime Video. Boo hoo. Amazon eventually relented from this view, and you know what? It only took a year between Amazon saying it’d stock Chromecasts and it, uh, actually stocking…

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Blockchains should have ‘privacy by design’ for GDPR compliance

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by on December 14, 2018 at 11:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


General data protection regulation (GDPR) and blockchain is one of the industry’s most contentious debates at the moment. Some believe that public permissionless blockchains cannot be GDPR compliant, and that private blockchains might be the answer to blockchain’s regulatory woes. Even so, private blockchains bring into question the very meaning of what a blockchain is. There is no simple answer. Dutch blockchain startup, LTO Network, hosted speakers from Barclay’s bank, Cambridge Computer Lab, and Queen Mary University to take on some of these challenging questions at Hard Fork Decentralized last night. The overarching sentiment from the evening? That we should…

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Abra is giving away $25 of Bitcoin this Christmas – but there’s a catch

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by on December 14, 2018 at 11:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Abra is trying to add a little holiday cheer to the current bear market bear market by giving away Bitcoin. This morning, in an email to customers, Abra announced a promotion which would see new investors of its BIT10 “exchange traded fund” (ETF) style token receive $25 of Bitcoin at no cost. But in this life nothing ever comes for free, and this is no different. Cunningly hidden away in the small print are terms and conditions, one of which which states, “any investments in BIT10 totaling less than $1,000 equivalent during the promotion period…

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Microsoft’s Hummingbird app uses AI to deliver a personalized news feed

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by on December 14, 2018 at 10:32 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider


Microsoft has quietly released an AI-based news app called Hummingbird on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. It’s currently available only in the US, and is the company’s second news aggregation app. Hummingbird lets you pick your favorite topics and subtopics from a list, and make a curated feed of news called ‘Your Mix.’ At any point in time, you can mute a news source or dislike a story to tailor your feed to your tastes in coverage. The app is said to get better at finding sources and topics better suited for you the more you use it. This…

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