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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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Fortnite’s Android edition will reportedly be exclusive to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 at launch

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, gaming, gear


If you’ve been waiting with bated breath to play Fortnite on your Android device since the announcement in May, you might have to be patient for a while longer: 9to5Google reports that the title will first become available only on Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 9. The handset is slated to be announced on August 9, with pre-orders rumored to open on August 14; it’s expected to arrive in stores on August 24. When it lands, Fortnite is said to be exclusive to the Note 9 for 30 days – so if 9to5Google’s on the money about this, you won’t get…

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Fortnite’s Android edition will reportedly be exclusive to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 at launch

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, gaming, gear


If you’ve been waiting with bated breath to play Fortnite on your Android device since the announcement in May, you might have to be patient for a while longer: 9to5Google reports that the title will first become available only on Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 9. The handset is slated to be announced on August 9, with pre-orders rumored to open on August 14; it’s expected to arrive in stores on August 24. When it lands, Fortnite is said to be exclusive to the Note 9 for 30 days – so if 9to5Google’s on the money about this, you won’t get…

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Or just read more coverage about: Android,Samsung

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Fortnite’s Android edition will reportedly be exclusive to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 at launch

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, gaming, gear


If you’ve been waiting with bated breath to play Fortnite on your Android device since the announcement in May, you might have to be patient for a while longer: 9to5Google reports that the title will first become available only on Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 9. The handset is slated to be announced on August 9, with pre-orders rumored to open on August 14; it’s expected to arrive in stores on August 24. When it lands, Fortnite is said to be exclusive to the Note 9 for 30 days – so if 9to5Google’s on the money about this, you won’t get…

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Bitcoin thrown lifeline by SEC Commissioner despite ETF rejection

Jul27
by on July 27, 2018 at 7:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for Bitcoin are back in the news again this week. Yet another application submitted by Bitcoin billionaires, the Winklevoss twins, has been shot down by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This is their second attempt to be rejected by government regulators – the pair waited over a year for the SEC to make another ruling. To date, no cryptocurrency-based ETFs have been approved, making this a major hurdle on the way to widespread adoption by Wall Street. But all hope might not be lost – the SEC’s commissioners are not uniform in their disapproval. An official…

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