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Market trends show why diversifying your portfolio in cryptocurrencies is difficult

Jun13

by Sindy Cator on June 13, 2018 at 5:43 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Finance, Hard Fork, Insights

The cryptocurrency market is hitting the skids. Bitcoin has hit its lowest since February and Litecoin has crossed below $100 for the first time this year. Cryptocurrency analysts have unanimously suggested that the price drop has something to do with the Coinrail hacking. But, the hacking didn’t have anything to do with Bitcoin, Litecoin, or most of the other 1600 odd cryptocurrencies listed on CoinMarketCap. So, why is the entire market down? The recent movements are again highlighting the phenomena of cross-coin price correlation. Look at the price movement of the top 11 cryptocurrencies over the last week, for example.…

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Intel will take on Nvidia and AMD with dedicated GPUs of its own starting in 2020

Jun13

by Sindy Cator on June 13, 2018 at 4:51 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, gear, Insider

Nvidia or AMD. For as long as I can remember, those have been the only two choices a gamer could count on. Yes, I know AMD bought ATI a while back, but it’s always been Green vs Red. Then Intel’s Blue announced it was joining the fray late last year, finally enabling RGB gaming on a corporate level. At the time, it wasn’t clear when that would happen, but Intel now says we could see a discrete GPU in blue as soon as 2020. According to a MarketWatch report, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Disclosed the timeline during an analyst event last week; Intel then…

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Report: Netflix and Telltale Games are working on a game streaming service

Jun13

by Sindy Cator on June 13, 2018 at 4:34 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, gaming

Netflix is the biggest video streaming site around. Now, according to TechRadar, it’s getting into the gaming business. The company is believed to have entered into a partnership with Telltale Games, which will bring simple adventure game experiences to Netflix. The first title is likely to be Minecraft: Story Mode, which first launched on PC and console in 2015. Insiders also report the company is likely to launch titles based on Netflix’s original content. The most probable contender here is the hugely-popular Stranger Things. TechRadar’s sources report that the games will be largely platform-agnostic. As long as you’ve got a…

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Twitter wants to send you personalized news notifications

Jun13

by Sindy Cator on June 13, 2018 at 4:28 pm

Posted In: Around the Web

Twitter today announced an upcoming addition to its suite of mobile notifications. Namely, it will soon offer users personalized news updates, generated based on their interests. Currently, Twitter offers news notifications, for those who want to be kept up-to-date on what’s happening around the world. Now the company is expanding on that with personalized updates. This could offer a better option for all those people — including me — who have opted out of news updates due to them cluttering up their phones with stuff they don’t find interesting. These notifications would ping you with news based on the kinds…