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Bitcoin’s Big Drop Again Coincides With Dollar Bounce in Forex Markets
11.1.2021
Bitcoin's crash Monday came alongside a bounce in the Dollar Index
Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services
11.1.2021
Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site...
Big Tech’s Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media
9.1.2021
During the last few days, the world has watched the Big Tech and social media crackdown after the incident that took place at Capitol Hill a few days ago. During the last 48 hours, U.S. President Donald Trump, a great number of right-wing supporters, and literally anyone who speaks out against...
The State Of Diversity In Big Budget Video Games
5.1.2021
When I think about diversity in last year’s crop of big-budget games I can see the bright spots. Some of PlayStation’s marquee games, for example, featured some of the most diverse casts I’ve seen with men of color and queer women front and center as main characters. But there’s still work to...
That Is One Big Pile of Savings: The Hisense L5 100" 4K Laser TV Projector Is $1,600 off at BuyDig
31.12.2020
Hisense 100" L5 4K HDR Laser TV | $2,399 | BuyDig | Promo Code QQA210Read more
Automatic Social Share Images
29.12.2020
It’s a pretty low-effort thing to get a big fancy link preview on social media. Toss a handful of specific <meta> tags on a URL and you get a big image-title-description thing. Here’s Twitter’s version of an article on this …
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Why you wouldn’t eat chicken nuggets, and why you shouldn’t trust Big Data
28.12.2020
Do you really know how your data is used and monetized? If you did, you’d probably think twice about giving your personal details away so freely
$200 Billion in Fines: Mega Banks Rack up Penalties From Illegal Activities
28.12.2020
Top U.S. banks have racked up almost $200 billion in fines and penalties over the past 20 years from illegal activities in 395 major legal cases. Bank of America tops the list, followed by JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo, according to a new report, which also covers Morgan Stanley and Goldman...
clipPath vs. mask
27.12.2020
These things are so similar, I find it hard to keep them straight. This is a nice little explanation from viewBox (what a cool name and URL, I hope they keep it up).
The big thing is that clipPath (the element in SVG, as well as clip-path in CSS) is vector and when it is applied, whatever you...
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
26.12.2020
Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here:
Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs to be covered) has position: relative applied to it....
Coinbase, Other Big Exchanges ‘Between Rock and a Hard Place’ on Delisting XRP
24.12.2020
The question of whether or not to delist XRP isn’t a black-and-white one for crypto exchanges
Crypto’s Big Rupture Is Coming in 2021
24.12.2020
Crypto is about to split in two. On the one side: KYC-compliant digital currencies. On the other: money "Legos" self-organized in DAO structures
Edge Everything
22.12.2020
The series is a wrap my friends! Thanks for reading and a big special thanks to all the authors this year who shared something they have learned. Many authors really swung wide with thoughts about how we can be better and do better, which of course I really love.
Adam showed us logical properties...
All The Big Games Coming Out In Winter 2020
21.12.2020
We made it, everyone. It’s winter 2020, which is really just a couple of weeks of 2020, with the vast majority of game releases coming in the year 2021. What will we be playing as we put the year of hell behind us and move on to what’s hopefully not just more of the same? Let’s find out. Read more
Law Decoded: Crypto on the rise, Big Tech on notice, Dec. 11–18
18.12.2020
The crypto industry is ending 2020 on a high note, while major social media platforms face a phalanx of lawmakers and lawsuits
Get a Big Dose of Turn-Based Action With Gears Tactics for $20
18.12.2020
Gears Tactics | $20 | AmazonRead more
It's Weird How Some Games Are Now Too Big To Fail
18.12.2020
For nearly the entire history of video games, most title’s lifespans would play out the same cruel, Darwinian way: they would come out and either live or die, sometimes with spectacular consequences. No second chances.Read more
The Big Comeback of 2020: Bitcoin Revisits USD 20,000
16.12.2020
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It finally happened on December 16th, 2020. The most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC) just revisited the USD 20,000 level on multiple exchanges for the first time since December 17th, 2017, when it touched USD 20,089.
At pixel time (13:49 UTC), BTC trades at more than...
Meet Gerald Stratford, the undisputed king of big veg Twitter
16.12.2020
Gerald Stratford has a soft spot for Cadbury whole nut chocolate. The 72-year-old British vegetable farmer tells me it’s always been his favorite, ever since he was a slip of a lad snapping up snacks and fishing gear with his pocket money—money he earned helping neighbors dig their allotments,...
Bitcoin hits 2-week high breaking last big resistance before $20K
16.12.2020
Bitcoin hitting its highest level since the start of December reignites the quest to crack $20,000 resistance