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Xiaomi’s fully loaded Poco F1 is hands down the best value phone of 2018

Sep04
by on September 4, 2018 at 4:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Following the annual MWC trade show in 2016, I wrote about how I believed the days of the $700 smartphone were numbered, because cheaper devices were getting better and narrowing the gap between the performance and features they offered, in comparison to what you’d get with a pricey flagship. As it turns out, I was dead wrong on the first bit – phones have broken the $1,000 barrier, and I now look like an idiot. However, Chinese brands have been proving me right on the bridging-the-gap front, and none more so than Xiaomi. Its $414 top-of-the-line Poco F1 packs pretty much…

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum needs to evolve or ETH will become valueless

Sep03
by on September 3, 2018 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The future of Ethereum has come under scrutiny with claims that the collapse of its cryptocurrency is inevitable. And co-founder Vitalik Buterin agrees, for now. In a piece published on TechCrunch, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Jeremy Rubin stipulates the price of ETH – the network’s underlying digital asset – is bound to plummet. “In Ethereum as it presently exists, this is absolutely true,” Buterin said in a post on Reddit. “[A]nd in fact if Ethereum were not to change, all parts of the author’s argument […] would be correct.” Cryptocurrency entrepreneur, Jeremy Rubin, made the claims in an article on TechCrunch. Ethereum,…

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A brief history of Bitcoin (and the people that made it happen)

Sep03
by on September 3, 2018 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, syndication


The recent fluctuations in the value of Bitcoin are just the latest in a series of spectacular peaks and troughs since it was created in 2009. (Though its price has been falling recently, it remains five times higher than last April, before the latest major peak began.) Commentators are often dismissive of Bitcoin buyers, writing them off as naive victims of a fraudulent bubble. But if we look more carefully, we can trace the history of Bitcoin through five key narratives. Each has drawn in a different group of buyers and in doing so contributed to its long-term growth in…

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Now we know everything about Google’s Pixel 3 XL, the only option left is to make a movie about it

Sep03
by on September 3, 2018 at 2:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Plugged


Well, Google seems about as good as keeping its latest phones away from the public as a colander is at holding water. Yes, as reported by the Android Police, the Pixel 3 XL has been leaked again. The site was sent images from a figure they call “Anonymous Alligator,” a Lyft driver who took some snaps of the phone after an individual forgot it in his vehicle. Have a look: On one hand, there isn’t too much we can learn from these photos that we haven’t learnt in a previous leak of the Pixel 3 XL. You know, like this one or…

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