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• This gold-and-diamond-encrusted Jesus phone is the absolute most

  11-12-2019 23:00
  
  I’ve been in this game long enough that I didn’t think anything could surprise me anymore. But I suppose I was a little wrong, because Caviar’s latest blinged-out iPhone definitely got a reaction out of me. The phone is called the *checks notes* Credo Diamond Christmas Star iPhone 11 Pro. It’s part of a whole Credo collection, each marked with religious iconography. The Diamond Christmas star, which is an otherwise normal iPhone 11 Pro covered in 18-karat gold and a
  
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• Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google

  11-12-2019 21:37
  
  Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after Google abandoned Project Maven earlier this year over ethical concerns. Project Maven, for those unfamiliar, is a Pentagon program to build an AI-powered surveillance platform for unmanned aerial vehicles. Basically, the job is to build a system for the US military to deploy and monitor autonomous drones. This system would, supposedly, give the government real-time ba
  
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• Huawei’s P40 could pack a 120Hz screen and a massive 5,500 mAh battery

  11-12-2019 20:40
  
  2020 is nearly upon us and leaks for next year’s flagships are steadily beginning to flow. Case in point: Earlier this week leakster Yash Raj Chaudhary shared some impressive early specifications for the upcoming Huawei P40. While Chaudhary is a relatively recent leaker, he does have several accurate releases under his belt. The leaker claims the P40 – it’s not clear if he’s talking about the P40 Pro or plain P40 – will come with some serious-business specification
  
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• WhatsApp will sue businesses for abusing bulk messaging

  11-12-2019 19:36
  
  Getting a barrage of bulk messages is one of the most annoying parts of modern messaging services, but now WhatsApp says it is taking additional measures to prevent people and businesses from abusing its system with bulk and automated messaging. Though WhatsApp offers a Business app and API to help companies more easily communicate with customers, the company says using these tools to send out bulk or automated messages is against its Terms of Service. WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted
  
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• YouTube now bans ‘veiled threats’ against content creators

  11-12-2019 19:28
  
  It’s that time of year for looking back and seeing what happened in 2019. And given that YouTube was raked over the coals for its inability to curb on-platform harassment, it’s probably no surprise it’s updating its harassment policy. Matt Halprin, YouTube‘s Global Head of Trust and Safety, said the new policy will “…not only prohibit explicit threats, but also veiled or implied threats. This includes content simulating violence toward an individual or
  
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• Report: A single province in China controls 54 percent of Bitcoin’s hash rate

  11-12-2019 18:29
  
  Bitcoin miners in China wield two-thirds of the network’s processing power (hash rate), and more than half of it is controlled by a single province. That figure, which increased from 60 percent in June, marks the highest recorded by digital asset firm CoinShares since it started tracking Bitcoin‘s hash rate almost two years ago. According to CoinShare’s data shared with Hard Fork, Bitcoin miners in Sichuan, China are responsible for 54 percent of its global hash rate. “O
  
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• My god, budget phones are fucking good these days

  11-12-2019 17:05
  
  For a long while, I’ve avoided budget phones as though they were a marathon and I was me. I think this… distaste can be traced back to the early days of smartphones. One of my first touchscreen-enabled devices was some cheap, early generation phone from a company I can’t even remember. And — my fucking god — it was awful. I’d moved from a Sony Ericsson phone (something like the W200) that I loved, but I was excited to move into the future and get a phon
  
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• $1.6B in Bitcoin bought during 2017’s bull run hasn’t moved

  11-12-2019 15:43
  
  Bitcoin‘s long-term holders continue to keep their cryptocurrency close, despite its declining value — 59 percent of BTC’s circulating supply still hasn’t moved in at least one year. Generally, these trends are in-line with shrinking Bitcoin trading volumes, reports research firm Delphi Digital. Still, the firm highlighted 220,000 BTC (worth roughly $1.6 billion at current prices) bought way back in November 2017 — the start of peak Bitcoin-mania&nbs
  
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• Dutch crypto payment fraudsters could face 6 years in prison under new bill

  11-12-2019 15:09
  
  Law makers in the Netherlands could be increasing the maximum prison sentence for those committing payment fraud with cryptocurrency and money transfer apps. Presently, fraudsters that commit payment fraud with banking and money transfer apps — such as Tikkie — face between one and four years in prison. But new legislation, in a bill from Minister Grapperhaus, would see the maximum sentence increased to six years, NOS reports. The report also says that cryptocurrency fraud would fal
  
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• Zuitte bundles 50 online business tools together to help scale your startup or side hustle

  11-12-2019 15:00
  
  The guys who created Zuitte wanted to build a package that brought everything a new digital business owner needs under one roof. Right now, you can get a lifetime of access to their 50-tool suite of business services for just $199, a more than 90 percent savings, from TNW Deals.
  
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• Bose’s Star Wars headphones are exactly what we deserve

  11-12-2019 14:27
  
  I like Star Wars, I really do. Hell, the movies are so embedded in my life I can’t even remember when I first saw them. I pumped a huge amount of money into the franchise, playing the games, reading the books, and buying the shit — I’m genuinely immersed in the world. But, today, it got too much. Yep, you guessed it, Bose launched a Star Wars edition of its famous QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones II. Yep, things have gotten so bad on this godforsake
  
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• CHEAP: Reach for the stars. Here’s $250 off the Samsung Galaxy S10

  11-12-2019 14:21
  
  We’re about to say goodbye to 2019, and say hello to 2020. That means we’ll see plenty of new (and hopefully innovative) phones. But that doesn’t mean you can’t buy phones that were released this year, especially when they’re at a discounted price. Samsung’s Galaxy S10 is one of those phones. The flagship device with 512GB internal storage is selling for just $900, down from $1,150. The phone has Samsung’s signature AMOLED Plus screen that’ll fill
  
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• Chrome now alerts you when someone steals your password

  11-12-2019 14:05
  
  Google released a new version of the Chrome browser last night with live phishing alerts and improved password protection. The new version 79 will now warn you if your password is stolen in a breach. If you’re logging in to a website with compromised credentials, Chrome will display a warning notifying you of the breach. This only works with passwords that are synced and stored within Chrome. In February, Google introduced this feature through an extension and later in October made i
  
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• iPhone 11 is the only gadget to make Google’s 2019 top searches

  11-12-2019 14:01
  
  It’s that time of the year. Google has released the most searched terms for 2019 — and there are some interesting results. Let’s start from the top: “India vs South Africa” takes the top dog spot, ahead of “Cameron Boyce” (more on that below) and “Copa America.” Just so it’s clear, the term refers to the cricket showdown between India and South Africa. The only tech-specific entry in the top 10 is “iPhone 11,” which came in
  
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• Toshl is how 2 million people track their money. Right now, it’s 66% off.

  11-12-2019 14:00
  
  Over 2 million people use Toshl to monitor their spending, with nearly 30,000 pushing Toshl to a sterling four-and-a-half star rating among both Apple App and Google Play users.
  
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• Telegram exec should testify in UK over alleged illegal token sales, says US judge

  11-12-2019 13:20
  
  A US court has asked a UK judge to depose John Hyman, Telegram’s chief investment officer, to testify in relation to the company’s token sale, CoinDesk reports. It comes after the Security and Exchange Commission requested Hyman’s testimony — as well as several documents relating to his fundraising work for Telegram’s blockchain project TON — last week. The request asked the High Court of England and Wales to let Hyman “appear before an examiner or
  
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• Thanks to AI, medical treatments are becoming more personalized

  11-12-2019 13:13
  
  Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since it was in its blooming stages in the 1940s. It was a time when the direct interaction between AI and humans seemed impossible and people were even scared by the thought. All sorts of theories started emerging that made artificial intelligence look deadly for humans. The idea of robots or droids were thought of as something that could hurt the human population and even drive them to extinction. In spite of all theories, researchers were able to p
  
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• This $722M Bitcoin mining scam referred to its marks as ‘dumb’ investors and ‘sheep’

  11-12-2019 11:44
  
  Authorities in the US have arrested three men in connection with BitClub Network, a Bitcoin mining scheme that allegedly defrauded investors out of a staggering $722 million. According to a release issued by the US Department of Justice, Matthew Brent Goettsche and Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks — both from Colorado — have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They’re also charged, alongside Joseph Frank Abel from California, with offering and selling unregistered s
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price is slowly but consistently declining again’

  11-12-2019 11:09
  
  Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Isaac Newton used to say: Peel off the skin of this mystery and eat the tasty fruit inside! Bitcoin price We closed the day, December 10 2019, at a price of $7,278. That’s a minor 1.60 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$119.01. It was the lowest closing price in five day
  
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• How we can stop our smart toasters from spying on us

  11-12-2019 10:47
  
  Statista projects that there will be 75.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices by 2025, a fivefold increase in the number of devices in a 10 year period. IoT devices are connected via the internet – while one can be forgiven for thinking that not every piece of technology can or should be connected in this way, the truth is that the future will see all kinds of devices made ’smart.’ Griffin already produces a $100 connected toaster which can enable user
  
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• India’s proposed data protection might force companies to introduce user verification

  11-12-2019 10:02
  
  Yesterday, India circulated a new version of its much-awaited Data Protection bill amongst the members of parliament. The bill, which will be discussed in the parliament soon, puts a framework around data collection with consent from people in India and proposes unrestricted access to non-personal data by the government. Last year, a committee formed under justice BN Krisha submitted a draft bill to the government, which sparked heated discussions. One of the primary topics was an intermittent
  
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• Man tries to steal domain name at gunpoint, gets 14 years in prison instead

  11-12-2019 05:16
  
  How much is a domain name worth? For one lunatic, apparently enough to try to steal one at gunpoint. Rossi Lorathio Adams II was just sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to force a man to transfer him the doitforstate.com domain. Adams, a 27 year-old from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ran a small social media empire dubbed ‘State Snaps.’ It spanned millions of followers across Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter and depicted “images and videos of young adults engaged in crude behavi
  
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