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We’re now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

Aug17
by on August 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Space, syndication


An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie with the lunar surface in the background, but then lost contact with Earth and presumably crashed onto the lunar surface. Now it’s been revealed that the mission was carrying a cargo of dehydrated microscopic lifeforms known as tardigrades. Beresheet was the first stage of a privately-funded initiative to transfer living DNA to the moon. The project is designed to act as Noah’s Ark Mark II, providing a repository from which plants and animals could be regenerated to repopulate the Earth should a catastrophe…

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Microchipping your employees will always be dehumanizing — and pointless

Aug17
by on August 17, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


You may have heard of the latest approach to authentication in businesses: inserting microchips into their employees.  While this approach has worked wonders in the pet community, helping returning lost furry friends to their owners, the use of microchips in a business environment is not only dehumanizing, it’s also pointless.  It’s true, passwords are not sufficient to defend your network, that has been well established over the years. You need additional factors to provide high identity assurance. But it’s absurd to think that the “human-embedded option,” which is basically a code (private key) embedded in an RFID chip, the same…

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CHEAP: HAHAHAHAHA. There’s 80% discount on the JBL Under Armour Sports Wireless

Aug17
by on August 17, 2019 at 12:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Running is great fun, but if you want to keep your running tempo going, you’ll need some catchy music. Unfortunately, regular earphones might not do the trick. That’s why you should opt for a wireless sports earphones that won’t fall out of your ear. And what’s better than the JBL Under Armour Sports wireless earphones that are selling for just $29.99, down from $119.96? Yeah, you read that right: a full 80 percent off! JBL and Under Armour have worked together to create a pair of…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘A day of consolidation in Bitcoin’

Aug17
by on August 17, 2019 at 9:40 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 Marie Curie used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 16 2019, at a price of $10,374. That’s a minor 0.53 percent increase in 24 hours, or $54. 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…

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