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These satellite images show how much damage climate change has caused

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by on July 27, 2018 at 10:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space, syndication, world


Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University The average rainfall for the first two weeks of July in England was 6mm, while only 15mm fell throughout all of June, according to the UK’s Environment Agency. To give some idea of how low this is, the definition of a desert is a place with an average rainfall of 21mm per month. The Met Office recently illustrated the effect of this drought on the UK with satellite images showing an average color change from green to brown over the course of 12 weeks, as the lack of rain caused plants to wilt. High altitude…

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Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store

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by on July 27, 2018 at 9:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


Google has now banned all cryptocurrency miners from the Play store. Apps that manage mining hardware are apparently okay, though – for now. The new ruling is hidden amongst the July updates to Google’s Developer Policy Center, as spotted by Android Police. It can be seen as a follow-up to their previous set of restrictions, which saw all extensions associated with cryptocurrency mining removed from the Chrome Web Store. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices,” the new policy reads. “We permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency.” It’s all probably to be expected – a…

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Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 9:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


Google has now banned all cryptocurrency miners from the Play store. Apps that manage mining hardware are apparently okay, though – for now. The new ruling is hidden amongst the July updates to Google’s Developer Policy Center, as spotted by Android Police. It can be seen as a follow-up to their previous set of restrictions, which saw all extensions associated with cryptocurrency mining removed from the Chrome Web Store. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices,” the new policy reads. “We permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency.” It’s all probably to be expected – a…

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Blockchain startups are selling visions of the future, not technology

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 9:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider, Insights


The blockchain hype train has been operating at full steam for some time now. Every week Twitter and Reddit are ablaze with new launches of blockchain startups promising decentralized and distributed technologies, which promise to change life as we know it and empower us, the people, to decide our own future. The thing is, they are all promising roughly the same thing, and the promises are turning into a rhetoric. Rhetorics don’t really serve any function outside of argument or marketing, so they are of little use to us – the people the blockchain is supposed to empower. Let me…

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Blockchain startups are selling visions of the future, not technology

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 9:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider, Insights


The blockchain hype train has been operating at full steam for some time now. Every week Twitter and Reddit are ablaze with new launches of blockchain startups promising decentralized and distributed technologies, which promise to change life as we know it and empower us, the people, to decide our own future. The thing is, they are all promising roughly the same thing, and the promises are turning into a rhetoric. Rhetorics don’t really serve any function outside of argument or marketing, so they are of little use to us – the people the blockchain is supposed to empower. Let me…

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