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This Day in Deals: Why don’t you just go fly a kite?

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Ever been the first to do anything? Maybe you set a school athletics record? Invented your own drink? Created a game? Well, something I know you weren’t the first to do was parachute from a thousand meters. Why? Because that honor fell to the obviously unhinged Frenchman, André-Jacques Garnerin. Just soak in this dude’s magnificence: By trade, Garnerin was a hot air balloonist (what a career), but…

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Germany wants a global ‘minimum tax’ for tech giants’ revenue

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


Tensions between the EU and US tech giants are increasing as the union tries to find ways to regulate international tech services in Europe. The union has repeatedly gone after big tech on competition matters and GDPR’s four percent of worldwide annual turnover fines show it doesn’t intend on giving tech giants a free pass. European ministers are now looking for more permanent ways of making sure that tech superpowers — such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — play by the rules and pay their fair share. Latest addition is Germany’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz. He wrote a…

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Germany wants a global ‘minimum tax’ for tech giants’ revenue

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


Tensions between the EU and US tech giants are increasing as the union tries to find ways to regulate international tech services in Europe. The union has repeatedly gone after big tech on competition matters and GDPR’s four percent of worldwide annual turnover fines show it doesn’t intend on giving tech giants a free pass. European ministers are now looking for more permanent ways of making sure that tech superpowers — such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — play by the rules and pay their fair share. Latest addition is Germany’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz. He wrote a…

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Moonday Morning: DJ Khaled & Floyd Mayweather finally sued over scamcoin

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:21 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It’s Moonday Morning! Time to serve up a hot, steaming pile of cryptocurrency news leftovers that we all missed over the weekend, but taste oh-so-good when you reheat them. On today’s menu: 1. Blockchain engineers are reportedly making between $150,000 and $175,000 on average. Apparently, that’s on par with AI devs and higher than any other specialized engineering roles. 2. Accountancy giant E&Y says in the first six months of 2018, 86 percent of the leading ICOs that listed on a cryptocurrency exchange in 2017 are now trading below their initial price. That’s almost all the percent. 3. Dutch bank ING…

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GitHub is down because of data storage issues

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider


Developer platform GitHub has been down for hours due to data storage issues. According to GitHub’s status message board, the issue began around 10 PM ET on Sunday. Some users are facing login errors while others are not able to see their commits. The company acknowledged the issue saying “We’re failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.”. GitHub also said on the status board that the team is working on migrating the database to get the website up and running. We are continuing work to repair a data storage system for https://t.co/IEoI8IWMw9. You may see…

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