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CHEAP: Lord! A WD 10TB external hard drive for $180 is a BLESSING — praise be!

Aug24
by on August 24, 2019 at 12:01 pm
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You can never have too much digital stuff. Whether that’s music, movies, photos, documents, or whatever else tickles your virtual fantasies, it’s all good. The issue though is space. How are you meant to store all of that juicy content in an easy way? External hard drives. The answer, to reiterate, is external hard drives. But what’s the point in having a 1TB storage device? Or 2TB? Or even 5TB? That’s barely storage at all. No, what we need is something more. Something bigger. Something…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Hal Finney calculated a Bitcoin price of $10 million per coin’

Aug24
by on August 24, 2019 at 9:41 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 Descartes used to say: Shop ’till you drop! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 23 2019, at a price of $10,407. That’s a respectable 2.68 percent increase in 24 hours, or $271. It was the highest closing price in two days. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day…

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Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize global nutrition — but it might be dangerous

Aug24
by on August 24, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Proponents of nanotechnology say it will revolutionize farming and global food systems, with applications being explored that could cut waste, make food safer and help create ‘super crops’ that escape the controversial label of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If successful, it could help to overcome poor yields, malnutrition and opposition to GMOs – all of which are still large challenges in the global South. The science of nanotech is cutting-edge but simple enough to be affordable globally. And the development prospect is huge. So it’s no surprise that many developing countries have already embarked on commercializing the technology. But the…

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