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CHEAP: 30% off a cornucopia of CBD products? For you? Damn straight, bud

Sep02
by on September 2, 2019 at 10:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you’ve been in a health food store recently — or just follow any wellness social media accounts — you’ll have come across CBD. For those not in the know, CBD stands for cannabidiol, which is one of the chemical components (specifically, the cannabinoids) that are in the marijuana plant. Now, the most famous of these is THC. That’s the part that gets you high, but what CBD does is different. Rather than giving you a psychoactive experience, CBD (supposedly) lets you get the benefits of marijuana,…

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Moonday Mornings: North Korea denies earning $2B by hacking cryptocurrency exchanges and banks

Sep02
by on September 2, 2019 at 10:24 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


If you’re reading this, that means we successfully lured you into clicking our Bitcoin-related headline. Sucked in. What it really means, though, is that you and I have now entered into a (rather loose) social contract. It demands you are provided with enough interesting cryptocurrency tidbits so that you don’t complain to us on Twitter about being baited into reading another shitty blockchain article. Let’s see if we hold up our end of the bargain. 1. Manny Pacquaio, the renowned Filipino boxing champion, launched his own cryptocurrency at a free concert in Manila on Sunday, Reuters reports. The use-cases for his…

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Chinese face-swapping goes viral, invites criticism over privacy clause

Sep02
by on September 2, 2019 at 9:19 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Last week, a Chinese social app developer named Momo introduced a face-swapping app called Zao. The app, which lets you overlay your face in existing photos and video, shot to the top spot in the entertainment section on the App store, and posts with Zao-related hashtags gathered over 8 million views on Chinese social network Weibo. But along with its immense popularity, it stirred up a ton of privacy concerns. If this tweet is to be believed, Zao does an astonishingly good job of swapping faces: In case you haven’t heard, #ZAO is a Chinese app which completely blew up…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Max Keiser sets $28,000 Bitcoin price target’

Sep02
by on September 2, 2019 at 8:16 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 Foucault used to say: Time is money! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 01 2019, at a price of $9,757. That’s a minor 1.32 percent increase in 24 hours, or $127. It was the highest closing price in four days. We’re still 51 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at…

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All the leaked iPhone 11 specs we’ve seen so far

Sep02
by on September 2, 2019 at 6:16 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


We’re less than 10 days away from Apple’s next iPhone reveal, but over the weekend, all three phones’ specs were leaked. Chiese tech news outlet MyDrivers got hold of the spec sheet including prices and names. The report suggests this year’s iPhones will be named the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 Pro, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. All of them will be powered by Apple’s latest A13 chip, and support Face ID, Wi-Fi 6, and bilateral wireless charging. The iPhone 11 Pro and the Phone 11 Pro Max have 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch OLED screens respectively. Both phones support the…

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