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This Day In Deals – 16th October

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 12:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This Day In Days is a new section where we share the best deals of the day alongside a historical fact, and try to connect the two. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. In this day in 1384, Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland – although she was a woman. You can view this a middle finger to the patriarchy. Or you can see it as a form of patriarchy. Why? Well, the middle finger is that Jadwiga was called “king” to reflect she was a queen regnant, a female monarch with the same rank as a king,…

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This Day In Deals – 16th October

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 12:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This Day In Days is a new section where we share the best deals of the day alongside a historical fact, and try to connect the two. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. In this day in 1384, Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland – although she was a woman. You can view this a middle finger to the patriarchy. Or you can see it as a form of patriarchy. Why? Well, the middle finger is that Jadwiga was called “king” to reflect she was a queen regnant, a female monarch with the same rank as a king,…

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Google explains the magic behind the Pixel 3’s Super Res Zoom

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 11:21 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Insider


Google Pixel 3’s camera has a lot of impressive tricks up its sleeve. One of them is Super Res Zoom, which improves digital zoom for clear pictures, and allows for decent results when working with a single-lens setup like the one on the Pixel 3. The company’s AI team explained in a blog post today that the camera zooms in before taking a picture, rather than shooting a picture first and then cropping it. That helps it improve the image quality later with special algorithms: The Super Res Zoom technology in Pixel 3 is different and better than any previous…

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Dev sends Bitcoin without using the web or the power grid

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 10:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


One day we might all be able to send Bitcoin from literally anywhere in the world, with no electricity and no internet connection. Off-grid cryptocurrency transactions seem to be becoming an achievable possibility as yet another developer has managed to send Bitcoin without a data connection, using low-cost consumer grade hardware. An ingenious developer from New Zealand managed to send the transaction over 12 km away using four goTennas and a $30 Android smartphone. Over the weekend I sent a bitcoin transaction to a relay 12.6km away with no cell network or internet connection. Here’s a tweetstorm about how I…

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Dev sends Bitcoin without using the web or the power grid

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 10:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


One day we might all be able to send Bitcoin from literally anywhere in the world, with no electricity and no internet connection. Off-grid cryptocurrency transactions seem to be becoming an achievable possibility as yet another developer has managed to send Bitcoin without a data connection, using low-cost consumer grade hardware. An ingenious developer from New Zealand managed to send the transaction over 12 km away using four goTennas and a $30 Android smartphone. Over the weekend I sent a bitcoin transaction to a relay 12.6km away with no cell network or internet connection. Here’s a tweetstorm about how I…

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