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Honor launches the Honor 8X in China (and it’s massive)

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 4:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile


Huawei’s consumer-oriented smartphone sub-brand, Honor, today announced the general availability of the Honor 8X in China. The most eye-catching detail of the Honor 8X is the size of its display, which measures 6.5-inches and boasts an aspect ratio of 19.5:9, which Honor says isn’t too far from the 21:9 ratio found on cinema screens. For context, the display on Samsung’s massive flagship, the Note 9, measures just 6.4-inches. At the top of the Honor 8X’s screen is a notch which, to its credit, is pretty small — although it can’t hold a candle to other more minimalist notches, like that…

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Honor launches the Honor 8X in China (and it’s massive)

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 4:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile


Huawei’s consumer-oriented smartphone sub-brand, Honor, today announced the general availability of the Honor 8X in China. The most eye-catching detail of the Honor 8X is the size of its display, which measures 6.5-inches and boasts an aspect ratio of 19.5:9, which Honor says isn’t too far from the 21:9 ratio found on cinema screens. For context, the display on Samsung’s massive flagship, the Note 9, measures just 6.4-inches. At the top of the Honor 8X’s screen is a notch which, to its credit, is pretty small — although it can’t hold a candle to other more minimalist notches, like that…

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Bitmain’s AntPool quietly activates controversial hack for faster Bitcoin mining

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It looks like one of Bitcoin’s premier mining pools, AntPool, has activated AsicBoost on its mining operations. AsicBoost purportedly increases mining efficiency by up to 20 percent, making its usage very controversial. There’s a website that tracks just what percentage of Bitcoin blocks are mined using the sneaky new tech. Specifically, it shows that block #540032 was mined by AntPool, and it used AsicBoost to mine it quicker than usual. According to AsicBoost Block Explorer, block #540032, which was mined by AntPool, was mined using the controversial tech to gain rewards quicker than usual. It is worth pointing out this…

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Bitmain’s AntPool quietly activates controversial hack for faster Bitcoin mining

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It looks like one of Bitcoin’s premier mining pools, AntPool, has activated AsicBoost on its mining operations. AsicBoost purportedly increases mining efficiency by up to 20 percent, making its usage very controversial. There’s a website that tracks just what percentage of Bitcoin blocks are mined using the sneaky new tech. Specifically, it shows that block #540032 was mined by AntPool, and it used AsicBoost to mine it quicker than usual. According to AsicBoost Block Explorer, block #540032, which was mined by AntPool, was mined using the controversial tech to gain rewards quicker than usual. It is worth pointing out this…

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Sturgeon Moon patents: One-blink ordering and energy harvesting airports

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 2:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. We’re a little late for August’s Sturgeon Moon, but we’ll publish new patent round-ups every full moon. In August 2018, the US patent office issued over 27,000 patents and published over 28,000 patent applications. Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As I cannot list all the patent assets that are filed (nobody would…

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