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Baseball Superstar Mike Trout Answers Call Of Duty Hecklers In The Middle Of A Game
30.4.2021
An actual game of Major League Baseball, that is, not a round of Call of Duty.Read more
Former Employees From Major South Korean Firms Quit Their Jobs After Pocketing Millions in Crypto Profits
24.4.2021
South Korea’s crypto-sphere has been witnessing a volatile environment in terms of regulatory moves, as bitcoin prices and other altcoins are also having wild moves. Such a scenario hasn’t stopped the country’s middle class to profit from the crypto market, even with very...
We Finally Got A (Brief) Look At The Gollum Game
25.3.2021
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum won’t be out until 2022, but the developers at German studio Daedalic Entertainment shared a brief snippet of gameplay during today’s Future Games Show.Read more
The Rise and Fall of 'Bro-gurt,' the Macho, Ab-Obsessed Snack for MEN
23.3.2021
In 2013, a blonde-haired woman in a “sexy nurse” costume (low neckline, high hemline) worked a booth at the Food Expo of Natural Products, pitching a new option: Powerful Yogurt. She offered passers-by ultrasounds of their stomachs so they could “find their inner abs,” the brand’s tagline....
Visa Anticipates Cryptocurrency Becoming ‘Extremely Mainstream’ — Working to Allow Bitcoin Use at 70 Million Stores
18.3.2021
Visa CEO Al Kelly anticipates that cryptocurrency could become “extremely mainstream” within five years. He is working to position Visa in the middle of it should cryptocurrency take off. He further confirmed that Visa is working to allow bitcoin purchases, in addition to enabling...
Visa Boss Wants Company ‘in the Middle’ of Crypto as Cash ‘Declines’
17.3.2021
Alfred Kelly. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Business Live ME
The Visa CEO Alfred Kelly says that his company is set to embrace bitcoin (BTC)-related business in earnest, and claims that partnerships in both the crypto and stablecoin sectors are already in the pipelines – while adding...
Major Israeli Investment House Invested $100 Million in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Fund in December 2020
12.3.2021
One of the biggest asset managers in Israel allocated millions of dollars into the shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Altshuler Shaham is now gaining exposure to bitcoin by investing $100 million in shares, according to a local media outlet. Altshuler Shaham Currently Holds $150M...
The “Gray Dead Zone” of Gradients
1.3.2021
Erik D. Kennedy notes an interesting phenomenon of color gradients. If you have a gradient between two colors where the line between them in the color space goes through the zero-saturation middle, you get this “gray dead zone” in …
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Front of the Front / Back of the Front
17.2.2021
People really latched onto Brad’s framing. And for good reason. Front-end development has gotten so wide scoping that there are specialists inside of it. Two years ago, I cut it down the middle and now Brad is putting …
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Everything You Need to Know About Lord of the Rings' Second Age
16.2.2021
Even though we first learned about it in 2017, we barely know anything about Amazon’s plans for its Lord of the Rings series. One thing we do know—other than that a bucketload of talent is running all around New Zealand to make it—is that it’s set in the Second Age of Middle-earth’s long history....
After Years Of Trying, WB Games Has Successfully Patented Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System
6.2.2021
After trying multiple times since 2015, WB Games has successfully secured a patent on the nemesis system featured in Shadow of Mordor and its sequel, Shadow of War. The patent goes into later this month.Read more
Analyzing and Redefining Financial Tech in the Middle East at MarketsandMarkets Fintech and Blockchain UAE Virtual Summit
1.2.2021
January 23.01.2021 –The ‘MarketsandMarkets Fintech and Blockchain UAE Virtual Summit’ is scheduled to take place on March 22–23, 2021. The virtual summit features two days of insights into the Financial Technology and Blockchain scenario in the Middle East, the newest tools and technologies...
Bahrain Central Bank Issues License to Shariah-Compliant Crypto Exchange
27.1.2021
Middle Eastern crypto exchange Coinmena said this week that it had obtained a crypto assets services company license from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) ahead of its planned launch. In receiving the license, the exchange, which has been certified by the Shariyah Review Bureau, said it had...
Shariah-Compliant Crypto Exchange Wins License From Bahrain Central Bank
25.1.2021
Launching soon, CoinMENA said it will offer spot trading in five major cryptocurrencies
Bahrain central bank licenses Sharia-compliant crypto exchange
25.1.2021
Bahrain-based crypto exchange CoinMENA acquired a major license ahead of its launch in several countries including the UAE and Saudi Arabia
Dubai Financial Watchdog to Release Consultation Papers for a Crypto Regulatory Framework
21.1.2021
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has unveiled its plans to create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. The announcement was part of its 2021-2022 business agenda released this week. The Papers Will Be Released in the First Half of 2021 According to the watchdog, which regulates...
Why Pakistan and the Middle East can bet on crypto mining
19.1.2021
By embracing crypto mining activities in the region, Pakistan and Iran may give other nations in the Middle East an example to follow
Coinbase Joins $6M Funding Round for Licensed Middle-East Exchange Rain Financial
18.1.2021
The $6 million Series A round was led by Middle-Eastern VC firm MEVP Capital
‘No Middle Ground’: Inside Colombia’s Race to Become A Major Regional Crypto Market
13.1.2021
In 2020, Colombia saw a major boost in crypto use, both as a store of wealth and as a means of transaction
Making Battle For Middle Earth Sounded Terrible
9.12.2020
If you think the conditions developers are working under now are bad, imagine what they were like 16 years ago. Actually, don’t imagine it, you could just read this account of what it was like making the classic Battle For Middle Earth instead.Read more