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Long Island Tea Corp. – no, wait, Long Blockchain Corp. – might have to put an end to their name-changing adventures as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has served them with subpoena, Bloomberg reports. Information on the reasons behind the subpoena remains sparse, but the company has been asked to provide further regulatory documents to the SEC. Despite having nothing to do with the technology, Long Island Tea Corp changed their name to Long Blockchain Corp in December 2017. It might seem like a minor thing, but the change caused the company’s share price to jump from under…
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It appears popular cryptocurrency Monero, often praised for its privacy functions, was riddled with security vulnerabilities – one of which allowed hackers to steal coins directly from the wallets of exchange desks. Utilizing old-fashioned social engineering, inventive hackers could forge transaction data and use it to trick support staff into crediting their account manually with extra XMR. By simply copying a line of code from Monero’s wallet – which is open-sourced and accessible to everyone – the attackers could manipulate the amounts shown by the wallet when facilitating transactions between addresses. Each additional line multiplied the amount of XMR shown – which made…
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Internet usage in Africa is growing, but not quickly enough for Google, which wants to give it a nudge to boost its user base on the continent. Things came to a head in July in this respect, with the company announcing it was partnering with Kenya’s third largest telecoms firm — Telkom — to launch commercial operations of its internet-beaming balloon project Loon in the East African country. Google is also active in Nigeria, launching Google Station at an event in Lagos. Station will roll out 200 free Wi-Fi hotspots across five Nigerian cities before the end of 2019. Nigeria…
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URIDU, a German non-profit social enterprise, is using educational and inspirational music in the fight against the spread of diarrhea in remote regions of the Central African Republic and Congo. The songs, which are played using the solar-powered MP3 players URIDU developed, are used to sensitize the Aka communities found the CAR and Congo’s rainforests and are performed by indigenous musicians. Previously, in 2017, URIDU used theor solar-powered MP3 players to provide health education to women who can’t read in rural parts of Tanzania. “Our goal is to develop technologies that provide health literacy to the illiterate,” explains Marcel Heyne, the founder of…
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