Title: Using Pot to Help With Sleep? Benefits May Not Last
Category: Health News
Created: 1/21/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/22/2020 12:00:00 AM
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Vodafone has bailed on Facebook‘s cryptocurrency project, Libra, to focus on expanding its own solution for faster cross-border payments beyond Africa. The telecommunications giant is the latest in a string of companies to have left the Libra Association, alongside Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and Ebay, CoinDesk reports. [Read: Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’ is turning into a soap opera — and it’s gonna be a long season] Libra, a stablecoin-esque digital currency first revealed in mid-2019, has faced an onslaught of criticism from regulators worldwide, who’ve shared concerns its success could destabilize world economies by undermining the Euro. Vodafone would rather spend resources on M-Pesa (not a crypto)…
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Title: Walnuts May Benefit Gut Bacteria and Improve Heart Health
Category: Health News
Created: 1/17/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/21/2020 12:00:00 AM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You can’t trust Apple sales figures. The tech giant doesn’t release numbers on how many units it shifts, which means firms need to use a lot of guesswork to get to stats like iPhone 11 sales. To put it another way, always be critical of Apple analysts. Despite this, while you can’t trust data to be completely true, it can be useful for spotting trends. Let’s take the latest report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CRIP) that focuses on iPhone sales over the last quarter of 2019. [Slap your eyeballs on…
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you’re an avid tech news hound, headphone enthusiast, or Apple follower, you might’ve heard about the recent issue with noise-cancelation on the AirPods Pro. Basically, a firmware update (the alluringly named 2C54) has reduced the effectiveness of this sound-supressing feature for many users. Now, you might be suffering from this very issue — or maybe you’re just interested in the particulars of your AirPod‘s firmware version — but whatever the reason for being here is,…
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