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You can now get 100,000s of books for FREE — thanks, confusing copyright law

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by on August 7, 2019 at 3:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Book lovers, rejoice — hundreds of thousands of works are now online for free! Free! FREE! How? The exciting, rock and roll world of the public domain and US copyright law. Oh dear Oh yes. Basically, before the 1976 US Copyright Act, American works only had a copyright length of 28 years, according to Motherboard. Once this period was up, the books would have to be registered again. And you know what you can bet on in these sort of situations? No… Human laziness. Loads of people didn’t bother to re-register their copyright, meaning the work fell into the public domain. Which, for…

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How to build an innovation hub that’s actually innovative

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 1:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Future of Finance


Innovation hubs created by corporations have grown in popularity in the past decade. But with a growing number of failed innovation hubs helping fuel the criticism they have garnered over the years, it makes one wonder if that criticism is warranted or if there’s something else causing them to fail. Move fast and fail often Innovation hubs are often created by a startup, established company, or a group of companies. The goal is to apply the startup “move fast and fail often” approach to deliver new innovations that can spin back to the company. In other words, how can big companies launch…

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Coinbase faces negligence suit after mishandling its launch of Bitcoin Cash

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Long-standing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will face a negligence lawsuit after allegedly mismanaging the launch of Bitcoin Cash on its platform, a judge has ruled. However, court documents released on Tuesday show that US District Judge Vince Chhabria threw fraud and unfair competition charges relating to the case. Bitcoin Cash was borne out of a Bitcoin fork in 2017  and then split off into two subsequent cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Cash SV, the following year. This move marks the latest advance in a protracted lawsuit filed by Jeffery Berk in the aftermath of BCH’s launch. The issue resides around the fact…

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The Apple Card is the product that finally killed the Apple fan in me

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 12:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Finance, Plugged


Well, it’s happened. Apple is no longer a creator of attractive goods and services you want in your life, now it’s officially a financial institution following profit at all costs, wooo! Join me in giving a round of applause to the product that killed the Apple fan in me: the Apple Card! As a brief refresher, the Apple Card is a credit card the tech giant has released in conjunction with Goldman Sachs. If you’re looking for a range of specifics about how the Apple Card works, I’d suggest checking out our explainer here. But no matter how much information you have,…

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This is the chip that will power Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10

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by on August 7, 2019 at 12:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Hours before Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event today, the company unveiled its latest flagship processor that’ll supposedly power the upcoming Galaxy Note 10. The Exynos 9825 processor is Samsung’s first chip fabricated with a new 7nm process. The latest octa-core mobile CPU has two custom Mongoose cores, two Cortex-A75 cores, and four Cortex-A55 cores. This is a similar architecture to leading chips like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and the Huawei Kirin 980.  The CPU has Mali-G76 MP12 GPU, which is the same as the previous generation’s chip. It also supports UFS 3.0 storage and video recording up to 8K at 30 FPS.…

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