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CHEAP: Get $200 off a shiny new Apple MacBook Air

Sep22
by on September 22, 2019 at 7:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Released in July of this year, the MacBook Air is the newest laptop in Apple’s computing lineup. It’s designed to be an affordable (at least by the standards of Cupertino) entry-level introduction to the Mac world, incorporating some of the features of its more expensive brethren, like TouchID and a slim Retina display. The MacBook Air starts at $1,099, but if you swerve the bright lights of the Apple store and head straight to Amazon, you can get bit of cash off. Right now, the entry-level model with a 1.6GHz i5, 128GB of SSD storage, and 8GB of RAM retails…

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How to change the default translation language on Chrome

Sep22
by on September 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm
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’m usually a Mac user, but since I’m currently testing the Razer Blade laptop, I’ve been forced to temporarily switch to Windows. Somehow, Chrome for Windows figured out my mother tongue is Bulgarian, and automatically set the browser’s default translation language to Bulgarian — even though I prefer to translate pages to English. Fortunately, changing the default translation language is pretty simple. Here’s how to do it: Once you open any page in a foreign language,…

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Just putting it out there: iLove iTunes

Sep22
by on September 22, 2019 at 11:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Just Putting It Out There, Plugged


In this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One day very soon, iTunes will be murdered. And I mean murdered. Tim Cook is gonna get in his dusty truck, and drive to the countryside with iTunes sitting quietly in the back. He’ll coax the beloved piece of software out onto a grass-covered bank, and get it to kneel. “Oh look,” Tim Cook will say softly to iTunes, “there are some rabbits over…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Top 1000 Bitcoin addresses own 34% of the total supply’

Sep22
by on September 22, 2019 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork


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 Habermass used to say: There’s only one way to go from here! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 21 2019, at a price of $10,019. That’s a minor 1.60 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$163.93. It was the lowest closing price in nineteen days. We’re still 50 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market…

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