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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price may have found a new floor at $8,000’

Sep29
by on September 29, 2019 at 10:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Rousseau used to say: Yippee! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 28 2019, at a price of $8,245. That’s a minor 0.06 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$5.35. It was the lowest closing price in one day. We’re still 58 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $148,122,503,616. It…

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Here’s how you mute individual tabs on Chrome

Sep29
by on September 29, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


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. I have a terrible habit of playing multiple videos at once. Sometimes I like watching sports highlights in one tab, and listening to podcasts in another — most often on YouTube, and always on Chrome. This is why it comes in handy to know how to mute tabs in my browser individually. Chrome already has a mute feature baked-in, but it comes with one shortcoming: it can only mute sites, not tabs (meaning that once…

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Billions are infected by a cat poop brain bug, but studying it is vexing researchers

Sep29
by on September 29, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


What if I told you that there is a good chance you are carrying a parasite that is transmitted through cat poo? Two billion people around the world carry Toxoplasma gondii so there may be more than a 25 percent chance that it is in your body too. Toxoplasma is closely related to Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria. But while Plasmodium is quite fussy about where it lives, only able to survive in liver cells and then in red blood cells, Toxoplasma doesn’t much care. It muscles its way into just about any type of cell. But it’s also…

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5G sounds great, but we must ensure it won’t ruin internet equality

Sep28
by on September 28, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


It’s hard to understand the exact impact of 5G connectivity, but we must pay attention to its risk to create an even bigger digital divide. Some experts predict that 5G will offer up to 600x times faster internet speeds compared to 4G. With the first 5G infrastructure and device rollouts starting to happen, now is the time to pay attention to the impact of 5G on internet equality. Unfortunately, 5G will not be equally distributed, at least at first. The transition to widespread 5G availability will involve building new infrastructure to support these networks, as well as manufacturing new devices…

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