Self-professed cypherpunk Jameson Lopp has set the cryptocurrency community a seemingly impossible task: efficiently explain Bitcoin in less than 280 characters. A global, neutral payment network that allows anyone on earth to transact a huge or tiny amount of value with anyone else within minutes, without needing to ask permission from a government, without disclosing
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: WorldRemit, which helps immigrants and migrant workers abroad send money back home, raises $175M Series D, source says at a $900M+ valuation — The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets … WorldRemit, which helps immigrants
Read MoreMicrosoft has started to demonstrate new dual-screen Surface hardware inside the company. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company recently held an all hands event for its devices team, where it showed a sizzle video for new Surface devices and dual-screen prototype hardware. Employees even formed long lines to get a
Read MoreThe “sadistically difficult” cartoony shooter will be playable in the Model 3, Model S, and Model X while parked, Musk said. Elon Musk reveals Cuphead is coming to Tesla – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has thrown out its fair share of zany ideas over the last few years. But a group of designers is taking wild blockchain concepts to new heights with their plans for a cryptocurrency mining facility hidden in a skyscraper water park in Tehran, Iran. Yeah, I don’t know where to
Read MoreUpcoming events include InfoComm 2019, STEAM Week 2019, and Learning Summit 2019. Upcoming Events, Webinars & Calls for Papers (Week of June 3, 2019) Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreIt’s been a long time coming but [Fran] finally has a DSKY display, a replica of the user interface display found in the Apollo Guidance Computer. The best part? It’s a t-shirt. This build is a long, long, time in the making first beginning in 2015 when Fran started investigating the DSKY of the Apollo
Read MoreNiraj Chokshi / New York Times: Report: 52% of parents vs. 39% of teens said they spend too much time on their phones, up from 29% of parents and down from 61% of teens in 2016 — The kids are all right. But the parents? — Since 2016, adults have grown much more concerned about
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Been on the hunt for a pair of headphones? A set that’ll become your daily drivers for the next few years? Well, look no further. Why? Because Sony‘s WH-1000XM3 headphones are now selling on Amazon for only $298, down from
Read MoreThe banking industry is hell-bent on taking over the nascent blockchain and cryptocurrency market. A group of financial firms led by UBS Group AG is eyeing blockchain technology for settling cross-border trades worldwide with its own “Bitcoin-like” token. The 14 firms – including Barclays, Nasdaq, Credit Suisse Group, Banco Santander, ING, and Lloyds Banking Group
Read MoreThe new Windows 10 Notebook 7 Force comes with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1650 graphics. Samsung's new Windows 10 laptops: Meet MacBook Pro lookalike Notebook 7 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreApple’s artwork suggests Mac Pro, iTunes being split up and much more. Apple's WWDC 2019 invite is full of iOS and MacOS hints and Easter eggs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe site’s automated recommendation system, at times drawing on home movies of unwitting families, created a vast video catalog of prepubescent children. On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIt’s time for another edition of Moonday Mornings! If you’re new around here, this is Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines that you shouldn’t miss. Let’s get to it. 1. For about five minutes over the weekend, the Bitcoin and Canadian dollars trading pair flash-crashed down from around CAD$11,000 ($8,000)
Read MoreAnne Kauranen / Reuters: Report: Finland-based IoT service company Uros says it had sales of €1.3B, up 171% YoY, and profits of €120M, up 845% YoY in 2018 — HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s Uros, a little known Internet of Things services company, saw its sales soar 171% to 1.31 billion euros last year … Report:
Read MoreAt Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2019 today, the company is slated to announce a bunch of product updates during the keynote at the start of the event. That includes new stuff in iOS and macOS, as well as some major features for the iPad – and perhaps even the death of iTunes. Want to
Read MoreIf you like mechanical keyboards, you like switches. Historically, switches were weird, with strange capacitive rubber dome switches in Topre boards, buckling springs in the IBM Model M, and beamsprings in earlier IBM keyboards. This teardown of an HP signal generator has the weirdest keyboard switches ever. They’re being called pulse transformer switches, but they
Read MoreWelcome back to Lady Bits, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Let’s face it, the tech industry can be bro-y as hell. So, we’ve made this special game of Bingo for you to play at your workplace — if you have to deal with sexism, you might as well try to make it fun,
Read More8K OLED TVs officially become a thing this week as LG starts taking orders in South Korea for arguably the most advanced consumer TV set ever created. The 88Z9 has an 88-inch OLED panel with 8K Ultra HD resolution (7680 x 4320) — that’s four times more pixels than 4K. The OLED panel itself is
Read MoreJust hours after Oppo revealed the world’s first under-display camera, Xiaomi has hit back with its own take on the new technology. Xiaomi president Lin Bin has posted a video to Weibo (later re-posted to Twitter) of the Xiaomi Mi 9 with a front facing camera concealed entirely behind the phone’s screen. That means the
Read MoreGmail, YouTube and other services that rely on Google’s backend technology were disrupted for more than four hours on Sunday by what the company blamed on “high levels of network congestion.” Apple iCloud, Snapchat, Nest, Discord, Vimeo, and a number of third-party applications that host their services on Google were affected as a result. Several of
Read MoreNo notch, no problem. Oppo teases a phone with a selfie camera built into the screen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBloomberg: Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $23.85 per share, valuing the company at €9B, at about 33% premium to its Friday closing price of $17.82 — – The proposed acquisition values Cypress at about $10 billion — Semiconductor players are wrestling with slowing growth Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for .85 per share, valuing
Read MoreSmartphone companies are trying really hard to get rid of the notch by accommodating the selfie camera in many different ways: pop-up modules, flip-up camera, and sliding camera modules. Now, Oppo today announced through a tweet that it’s working on an under-display selfie camera. The company posted a video on Twitter that shows a camera
Read MoreMarianna Tzabiras / IFEX: Caller ID and spam blocking app Truecaller can endanger journalists by revealing their phone numbers, even if journalists never use the app — While TrueCaller may have laudable intentions, the privacy implications for people who end up in their database raise concerns. Caller ID and spam blocking app Truecaller can endanger
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