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Ripple Q2: Market share is down, but price is up – here’s what happened

Jul24
by on July 24, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, a corporate and institutional reimagining of what a digital currency should be and do. Ripple has managed to make cryptocurrencies and corporate institutions play nice, and is developing distributed ledger (DLT) technologies for such clients. It has often drawn criticism for ‘not being a real cryptocurrency’ and not being truly decentralized. This criticism comes from the fact that Ripple’s blockchain doesn’t have any miners, and access to it is heavily permissioned. It’s a far cry from open and censorship-resistant platforms, like Bitcoin. However,…

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UE’s Wonderboom 2 Bluetooth speaker is my brilliant, bombastic summer buddy

Jul24
by on July 24, 2019 at 1:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


After covering the announcement of UE’s Wonderboom 2, I finally got my hands on one. And you know what? It’s an exciting-sounding, portable Bluetooth speaker that’s perfect for summer (and pretty much everything). First off, UE? UE, or Ultimate Ears (sigh), are an American audio company owned by Logitech. I’ve been a huge fan of its equipment for some time, especially the UE Boom range. And if I was going to sum up their hardware? It’d be as ‘reasonably-priced, well-designed, and exciting-sounding.’ So… the Wonderboom 2? As the name suggests, the Wonderboom 2 is the second device in the Wonderboom range.…

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The New York Times wants to fight fake news using blockchain – good luck to it

Jul24
by on July 24, 2019 at 12:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Combating fake news, deepfakes, and misinformation is one of modern journalism’s biggest challenges. There have been numerous attempts to help readers recognize when a source shouldn’t be trusted. One of the latest ideas comes thanks to news media mainstay The New York Times and blockchain technology. In what it’s calling “The News Provenance Project,” the NYT is exploring Hyperledger Fabric with the help of IBM Garage (an innovation incubator of sorts) to build a private and permissioned distributed database to try to prove the authenticity of images used in journalism. That might sound like an oxymoron, but it’s private and permissioned from…

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CHEAP: Get yelled at by teens on Xbox LIVE now a 12-month Gold Membership is only $50

Jul24
by on July 24, 2019 at 12:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Playing games alone can be a wonderful experience. You can be part of an epic story, explore virtual worlds, and lose yourself for hours. But, one of the key aspects of gaming is the multiplayer experience. As good as it is to play against the computer, little beats testing your skills against a human opponent. That’s exactly what Microsoft Xbox‘s Live Gold membership allows you to do. Currently, its 12-month subscription is selling for just $49.99, instead of the online price of $59.99. Live…

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