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Amazon Web Services China launches official partnership with Qtum

Oct17
by on October 17, 2018 at 3:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Amazon Web Services (AWS) China has taken another step into the blockchain-based cloud computing world with the announcement of an official partnership with the Singaporean platform Qtum. Simon Wang, head of territory business development at AWS China confirmed to CoinDesk that AWS China is partnering with dApp platform, Qtum. “Qtum are now an AWS technology partner and one of the partner network members,” Wang told CoinDesk. The Qtum public blockchain platform has been available through AWS since July of this year. But this partnership lays the groundwork for a new working relationship for the two platforms. The platform claims to…

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Winamp is coming back next year, and I can’t wait to slap some skins on it

Oct17
by on October 17, 2018 at 2:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, creative, Design & Dev


TechCrunch’s recent report about Winamp making a comeback next year nearly made me weep with joy. It hasn’t been updated in five years, but it’s finally slated to return in 2019. Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Radionomy, the company that acquired Winamp back in 2014, explained that the idea for the revamped app is to support everything from MP3s on your hard drive to podcasts from the cloud – and make it all available across your desktop and mobile devices. That’s all well and good, but honestly, I’m more excited about the prospect of being able to apply skins to this…

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Haiku Review: Mezmoglobe kinetic desk toy

Oct17
by on October 17, 2018 at 2:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to Haiku Review, a feature where we review gear and gadgets using the Japanese poetry form. Yes, we’re back! This time round we’re looking at the Mezmoglobe desk toy I currently have swirling in front of me Basically, the Mezmoglobe a metallic ball type of thing that spins on your desk like this: Let’s get to it! How thoust spin, spin-thing? Pleasing, pointless, heavy, round – Reminds me of me   If you desperately need a spinning desk toy, you can hit up the Indiegogo page here and get your own Mezmoglobe. Just remember that even the most high-profile crowdfunding campaigns can…

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Haiku Review: Mezmoglobe kinetic desk toy

Oct17
by on October 17, 2018 at 2:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to Haiku Review, a feature where we review gear and gadgets using the Japanese poetry form. Yes, we’re back! This time round we’re looking at the Mezmoglobe desk toy I currently have swirling in front of me Basically, the Mezmoglobe a metallic ball type of thing that spins on your desk like this: Let’s get to it! How thoust spin, spin-thing? Pleasing, pointless, heavy, round – Reminds me of me   If you desperately need a spinning desk toy, you can hit up the Indiegogo page here and get your own Mezmoglobe. Just remember that even the most high-profile crowdfunding campaigns can…

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