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• A brief history of El Salvador’s crypto feud with the IMF

  26-01-2022 23:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Investing in crypto is a risky business — particularly when you’re betting with a country’s future. It’s nonetheless a gamble that El Salvador’s president has been eager to make. Nayib Bukele’s splurging on bitcoin has been lauded by crypto advocates, but criticized in the traditional financial world. The IMF has been among his most vociferous detractors. The International Monetary Fund has repeatedly urged El Salvador to ditch Bitcoin’s legal sentence
  
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• Trump’s censorship czar for TRUTH social media once sued a cow over Twitter beef

  26-01-2022 21:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump’s TRUTH network, a former California politician who once sued an imaginary cow over a Twitter beef, recently declared that the upcoming conservative conversation chamber would be “the most family-friendly of all social media sites.” In order to accomplish this, Nunes says the company’s hired the same artificial intelligence moderation firm as OnlyFans. Yes MAGA fans, Trump’s TRUTH will be censored using the same technology as every oth
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S22: All the leaks so far

  26-01-2022 17:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s that time of year again: Samsung is gearing up to release its latest flagship phone. It’s an interesting year for Samsung, as the phone market has heated up with stronger competition from Google than ever and an increasing number of esoteric designs hitting the scenes. You can bet that Samsung is going to be trying its darndest to make the Galaxy S22 family feel relevant. Here’s what we know about the phones so far based on numerous leaks leading up to Samsung’s rev
  
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• Escooters in the UK: Over-policing, media hysteria, and antiquated laws

  26-01-2022 15:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  When is a form of transport both legal and illegal simultaneously? In England, this is the reality for escooters, where their legality depends on whether riders own or hire them.  The battle between public and private escooters has meant that their low carbon footprint has been obscured mainly by police intervention and what some call over-policing. I wanted to understand the situation more. So I reached out to Dott, who is participating in Transport for London’s (TfL) escooter hire
  
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• Do you need to be alone to be creative? Here’s what the experts say

  26-01-2022 12:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Before the pandemic started, the debate between open office proponents and haters was as hot as ever, with a new day and a new ‘study’ showing favorable results for rubbing elbows with colleagues. And the next day, one professing the evils of the incessant noise machine we’d created. Little did we know we’d soon all be doing our own unintentional ‘experiment’ into the benefits and evils of working solo. But now, after close to two years, offices in many parts
  
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• Digital trends 2022: Every stat digital marketers need to know about the internet

  26-01-2022 09:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  12½ trillion hours spent online, a new milestone in internet adoption, and new records for social media use… If you expected digital to return to “business as usual” in 2022, you may want to reset those expectations. The new Digital 2022 Global Overview Report – published in partnership between We Are Social and Hootsuite – reveals that most of the connected world continues to grow faster than it did before the pandemic. Big stories in this year’
  
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• Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’

  26-01-2022 00:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google’s surveillance-based business model has attracted another prominent opponent. After surviving attacks from employees, human rights groups, Harvard professors, and rival firms, the company now faces a more powerful foe: a quartet of US attorneys general. The bipartisan group of AGs sued Google on Monday for allegedly deceiving users to profit from their location data. “Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow cust
  
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