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• Elon Musk becomes the International Space Station’s weed guy in March

  18-12-2019 22:58
  
  SpaceX has reportedly been tapped by a company called Front Range Biosciences to smuggle some drugs from Earth to the International Space Station in a mission set to launch in March. Just when I think Elon Musk cannot possibly be more irresponsible and idiotic, he goes and pulls a stunt like this… and totally redeems himself. Okay, maybe not totally. Abusing the court systems to make calling someone a “pedo guy” okay isn’t exactly a good use of anyone’s time. And
  
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• The Xbox Series X is backwards compatible. What about the PS5?

  18-12-2019 21:34
  
  The Xbox Series X, Microsoft’s entrant in the next-gen console war, will have thousands of games at launch thanks to the console being completely backwards compatible from day one. Is this something the PlayStation 5 should consider? We’ve known since the Project Scarlett reveal that the console would have backwards compatibility, and Microsoft reiterated that fact during its reveal of the console at the Game Awards. Xbox head Phil Spencer later told GameSpot that this would be a fe
  
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• CNN: Bitcoin was the best investment of the decade

  18-12-2019 16:36
  
  Major news outlet CNN has touted Bitcoin as the “star investment” of the decade, eclipsing stocks, bonds, commodities, and (of course) fiat currencies worldwide. CNN backed its claim with numbers provided by Bank of America Securities, which showed a tiny $1 investment in Bitcoin at the start of 2010 would be worth more than $90,000 today (or, considering its latest price dives, until quite recently). Still, regardless of its recent performance, Bitcoin dominated more traditional in
  
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• Whistleblower alleges crypto exchange Kraken violated international sanctions

  18-12-2019 16:25
  
  US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is being sued by a disgruntled former employee who claims to have been fired unfairly after sharing his concerns about some of the company‘s practices. Nathan Runyon, a former marine, worked as a financial analyst and reported to Kaiser Ng, the exchange‘s chief financial officer. The lawsuit, submitted on November 26, alleges that Runyon came across “numerous questionable business tactics that Ng condoned or was responsible for.” Ac
  
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• Unblock your favorite streaming sites & watch them anywhere for $40

  18-12-2019 14:00
  
  KeepSolid SmartDNS is the best of both worlds, a technology providing access to all your favorite streaming services from anywhere in the world without the lags and delays that can happen with a VPN. Right now, videophiles can lock in a lifetime subscription to KeepSolid SmartDNS for just $39.99, a savings of almost $200 off the regular price.
  
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• From sexting to politics: How emoji evolved this decade

  18-12-2019 12:44
  
  Believe it or not, the first emoji was created in 1999 by a Japanese artist, Shigetaka Kurita, who wanted to create a simple, quick, and attractive way of conveying information. At that time, Kurita was working as a developer for i-mode, an internet platform owned by Japan’s main mobile carrier, DOCOMO. Fast-forward almost 20 years and these small, yellow, emotive characters now represent a lot more than at first sight. Emoji has been referred to as a “lingua franca” — a
  
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• 3 trends that will shape software engineering in 2020

  18-12-2019 12:31
  
  Software engineering is a massive field that has a lot of scope and potential. Many engineers wish to enter the field of software engineering simply because they know the industry will never die. There is a lot happening in the software industry and a lot more seems likely to happen in 2020. So, if you are either planning to enter the world of software or if you wish to speed up your career, then you should focus on the latest happenings. In this article, we will talk about the top software eng
  
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• 300-word review: The Sonos Move is a great (but pricey) wireless speaker

  18-12-2019 12:12
  
  Do you ever get the feeling that reviews are often a bit too long? That you could get all the required information in a much shorter package? That writers love the sound of themselves typing too much? Same.  And, also, guilty. So, I had a thought… could I write an informative, interesting review in only 300 words? I guess we’ll find out… The Sonos Move Hey, it’s the first portable Sonos speaker! The Move has a (replaceable) battery, meaning you can actually&h
  
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• Move over Jesus, Puma just launched $160 shoes for gamers

  18-12-2019 11:01
  
  For too long, professional and enthusiast gamers have been held back from peak performance by shoddy shoes. How can you be expected to play at your best when your crummy trainers keep you from focusing on the action on-screen? Thankfully, Puma has risen to the occasion and, after “extensive talks with professional gamers,” developed active gaming footwear to address this issue. For just $160, you can buy sock-like shoes that “deliver seamless comfort, support and grip” s
  
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• Craig ‘Faketoshi’ Wright calls judge in $10B Bitcoin case ‘silly’

  18-12-2019 10:57
  
  Craig Wright, the man desperate to convince the world that he is Bitcoin‘s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is perhaps unaware of the fact that insulting a judge is probably not the best idea if you’re hoping to win a lawsuit. According to lawyer Stephen D Palley, a Washington-based lawyer focused on blockchain and smart contracts, Craig Wright — also known as Faketoshi — could face additional sanctions in the epic $10 billion lawsuit against the Kleiman es
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘UK crypto exchange Coinfloor to delist Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash’

  18-12-2019 10:54
  
  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 Nightingale used to say: Fight the power! Bitcoin price We closed the day, December 17 2019, at a price of $6,640. That’s a notable 4.19 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$290.79. It was the lowest closing price in two hundred and twenty days. We’re still 66 percen
  
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• Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material — they do the opposite

  18-12-2019 09:27
  
  Imagine you’re a lecturer teaching a celebrated novel that features violent scenes – say, F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). It transpires that one of your students has themselves been a victim of violence and now, thanks to your words, they are reliving their trauma. Could you, should you, have done more to protect this person? Beginning in 2013, many students at universities in the United States began demanding that their lecturers do just that and provide ‘
  
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• Ring home surveillance cameras are far less secure than Gmail and Facebook

  18-12-2019 08:51
  
  Motherboard found that the Amazon-owned home security hardware company Ring’s offerings lacked basic features to help protect customers from being snooped on by people who gained unauthorized access to their accounts. Ring sells indoor and outdoor security cameras that you can monitor from anywhere via a cloud-based interface, which means you can see what’s going on inside and around your house in real time, watch archived footage, see the residential address you registered your acc
  
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• Your annual reminder that Facebook tracks you even with location settings turned off

  18-12-2019 06:34
  
  Several major news organizations and outlets, from AFP to CNBC to The Hill, are reporting that Facebook told US senators that it continues to track users’ location even after they’ve turned those settings off within the app. Don’t be shocked — we learned about this exactly one year ago. Yesterday, Facebook‘s deputy chief privacy officer, Rob Sherman, explained the how and why in a letter to senators Christopher Coons (D-Del.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), after they ask
  
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• A quantum physics explanation for polyamory, BDSM, and queer people

  18-12-2019 01:59
  
  Quantum physics! Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about sex. Cultural norms would have us believe that human sexuality is divided up into a series of categories. We’re all supposedly somewhere between totally heterosexual and entirely homosexual on the Kinsey Scale, and everyone’s either male, female, in-between, both, or neither. From a quantum mechanics perspective, none of this makes any sense. It’s not that anyone is necessarily “wrong” about hu
  
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• Facebook owns the four most popular apps of the decade

  18-12-2019 01:49
  
  Analytics firm App Annie revealed data about the most-downloaded apps and games of the past ten years. Most of it is about what you’d expect: microtransaction games dominated, as did social media and telecommunications. But there is one small detail that’s a bit galling: Facebook, quite literally, owned this decade. On App Annie’s list of the top apps by all-time downloads, the apps holding the top four slots are, in order, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It
  
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• The super-rare Nintendo Play Station prototype is going to auction

  18-12-2019 00:38
  
  The owner of the unbelievably rare, possibly unique prototype Play Station revealed the device is going to auction. Come February, someone is going to go home with a precious piece of gaming history. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, in the late 1980s, Nintendo and Sony worked out a deal to create a CD-based add-on to the upcoming Super Nintendo, as well as a hybrid cartridge/disc console that would have been called the “Nintendo Play Station.” Nintendo, how
  
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