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CHEAP: $20 off a PlayStation Plus subscription means you can game online for 525,600 minutes this year

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by on August 7, 2019 at 11:35 am
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you think you’re a pro PlayStation gamer, you shouldn’t just sit at your home and brag to your friends. Go online and test your skills against the best of the world. But, to do that, you’ll need the Playstation Plus subscription. Luckily for you, the one-year subscription is available for just $39.99, down from $59.99. The PlayStation Plus subscription doesn’t only let you yell at teens in a battle royale game, but offers 100GB of cloud storage too. This way, your gameplay is…

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Binance offering up to $290,000 bounty to catch cryptocurrency KYC extortionist

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 10:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It’s never a dull day in the world of cryptocurrency, and today is no different. Over the past few hours an unknown individual has been terrorizing cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its users by attempting to extort 300 Bitcoin (nearly $3.5 million) out of the business. The exchange is also giving a reward of up to 25 BTC ($290,000) to anyone that can help catch the miscreant. According to an announcement from Binance, – released less than 2 hours ago – the individual claims to posses 10,000 “selfie” images that hold some similarities to the exchanges know-your-customer (KYC) data. It seems…

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Google tweaks algorithm to show less porn when searching for ‘lesbian’ content

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 9:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


Finding porn online is astonishingly easy, as I’m sure you’re already aware. But even innocent terms like “school girl” can often bring up more sexually explicit outfits than image of girls actually at school. Just last month, if you were to type ‘lesbian’ into Google, you’d be faced with a wall of pornographic imagery. However, after months of campaigning, Google has finally changed its algorithm for the better. According to PinkNews, the search engine will now show informative results when you search for ‘lesbian’ including recent news stories and Wikipedia entries — even if Safe Search is not activated.  The…

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Xiaomi’s soon gonna slap a 108MP Samsung sensor on a phone near you

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 8:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


There are plenty of phones with a 48-megapixel camera like the OnePlus 7 Pro, the Redmi Note 7, and the Honor View 20. And some companies like Realme are set to launch devices with a 64-megapixel cameras. Now, Xiaomi has just announced that it’ll soon launch a phone with a whopping 108-megapixel camera. At a briefing in China, the company said it will become the first manufacturer to use Samsung’s brand new 108-megapixel ISOCELL sensor. The maximum resolution of a photo from that sensor will be 12,032 x 9,024 pixels. Big news: Xiaomi announced that it will first adopt Samsung’s…

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Amazon hints at putting advertising data on a new blockchain

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 8:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, Hard Fork


Internet retail giant Amazon is looking for a software engineer to put advertising data on the blockchain, according to a recent job posting on LinkedIn. The online retailer is looking for a senior software engineer to work in its “Advertising FinTech team focused on a blockchain ledger,” the job listing reads. Amazon says the successful individual will define the architectural direction of what is currently an untapped area of Amazon‘s advertising business. “This is an opportunity to define a technology architectural direction of a greenfield area for Amazon‘s advertising business using Blockchain technology.” Unfortunately, any more details on the kind of…

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