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No, Samsung will not be accepting cryptocurrency payments in the Baltics

Jul23
by on July 23, 2018 at 4:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A rumor circulated last week that Samsung had entered a partnership with obscure Lithuanian blockchain startup, CopPay, that would make it possible for customers of the electronics giant in three Baltic states to pay for in-store purchases with cryptocurrency. But now it seems that there was never a collaboration between the two companies in the first place. A Samsung spokesperson has denied the partnership in an exclusive email to Hard Fork. “Our official response is that the rumor is not true,” the Samsung rep told us. The supposed partnership was announced through a post on CopPay’s Medium blog, which has…

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Your friends will think you’re lame if you don’t know about atomic crystals

Jul23
by on July 23, 2018 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication, world


What could we do with layered structures with just the right layers? What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them? The curious American physicist Richard Feynman asked these questions in his landmark 1959 lecture, There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom. It bustled with profound ideas about “manipulating and controlling things on the atomic scale”, using quantum mechanics. Far-fetched at the time, now manipulating layers of atoms is a major research area. To realise Feynman’s vision, researchers at IBM and Bell Labs in the US had to devise a…

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We tried to force our intern to exercise with this app — it half-worked

Jul23
by on July 23, 2018 at 1:09 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider


Goya-Move has a simple purpose: it wants to get kids active by blocking apps until they’ve hit a specific step count. In fact, the app’s tagline – “Get Off Your Apps… and Move!” – definitely got me active, as my mind fell into a perpetual logical cycle. You know, because it’s an app you install to stop kids from using apps, but if you got off this app, it’ll let kids get back on their apps. I don’t have time for this Right you are. It works like this: you install Goya-Move on the parent’s phone and on however many children’s…

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🚡 is no longer Twitter’s most unpopular emoji

Jul23
by on July 23, 2018 at 11:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


If you take a few moments to scroll through the emoji keyboard, you’ll eventually come across the ‘travel and places’ category to find an innocent looking aerial tramway (🚡). This was Twitter‘s least used emoji for the past 77 days but as of yesterday, it’s now officially the second to last least used emoji in the emojiverse (hooray!). The least used emoji is now: 🔠 (Input symbol for latin capital letters) — Least Used Emoji Bot (@leastUsedEmoji) July 22, 2018 The ABCD emoji (🔠) is now ‘in the lead’ as Twitter’s most unpopular emoji and this is all down to the Least Used Emoji…

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DOOM in ASCII mode is equal parts fun and frustrating

Jul23
by on July 23, 2018 at 6:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


You don’t really need an excuse to revisit id Software’s genre-defining FPS game, DOOM – but indie developer Dario Zubovoic’s take on the classic is good enough reason to jump back into the gory shooter for a few rounds. The twist is that Zubovic’s 1337doom is rendered in ASCII code, meaning that the graphics are all just colored letters, numbers, and symbols, kinda like those cascades of green text in The Matrix – and yes, there’s a monochrome mode too. via Gfycat Adjusting the difficulty slider simply increases the size of each individual character; the easiest mode keeps them small…

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