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Vinters are using music to make better wine

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by on August 20, 2018 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Winemakers are playing music to their fermented grapes in an attempt to coax more flavor from the bottles. It sounds odd, but they say the waves help improve the way the wine develops. According to National Geographic, a few wine companies are playing music to their aging barrels. Not just playing music while drinking the wine — I mean actually playing music for the settling liquid as it slowly ferments. Chilean winery Montes Wines plays quiet music, saying the “soft vibrations make the liquids perform a better aging than in silence or with strident music.” It sounds a little unlikely…

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Winklevoss twins recruit cryptocurrency superfriends to fight the SEC

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by on August 20, 2018 at 3:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


The Winklevoss twins are back with a vengeance. Just weeks after the SEC publicly denied their license for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), they’ve recruited some of the biggest names in cryptocurrency to form a new regulatory supergroup. It’s called the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA), and it wants to be the central authority for dealing with the SEC on matters of regulation and compliance. The traditional securities industry has similar committees, albeit with nobody as good looking as the Winklevi. Right now, it has only four members, all major players in cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage: Bitstamp, bitFlyer USA, Bittrex, and the Winklevoss’s…

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Blockchain’s ‘killer’ dApps can’t keep users interested

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by on August 20, 2018 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Data is indicating that decentralized applications – dApps, for short – hemorrhage users soon after interest peaks, with most users leaving not long after launch. The latest issue of the Diar report shows that the largest seven dApp platforms by ICO funding, capital raised, have lost 74 percent of their active users, on average, from their all time highs. The top dApps, ranked by peak user count, included the popular Cryptokitties, which has seen a 96 percent drop in user numbers since its all time high of 14,194. Bancor has seen a 74 percent drop, Kyber Network saw a 61…

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Learn to master vlookup and VBA with this Excel $49 training bundle

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by on August 20, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


If you’ve got the tools, you’d better have the talent, so right now, you can get in on training that’ll have Microsoft Office and its most popular program eating out of your hand. A lifetime of access to eLearnExcel and eLearnOffice School training bundle is now only $49, over 90 percent off its regular price, from TNW Deals.

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Censorship machines removed my article warning people about censorship machines

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by on August 20, 2018 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


A few days ago, about a dozen articles and campaign sites criticizing EU plans for copyright censorship machines silently vanished from the world’s most popular search engine. Proving their point in the most blatant possible way, the sites were removed by exactly what they were warning of: Copyright censorship machines. Among the websites that were made impossible to find: A blog post of mine in which I inform Europeans about where their governments stand on online censorship in the name of copyright and a campaign site warning of copyright law that favors corporations over free speech. Was this a brazen…

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