Month: March 2025

Buy now, pay later . . . for a burrito?

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In 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. As of this writing, those coins would be worth $850 million dollars. While there are few comparisons to that kind of miscalculation, the prospect of adding interest payments to fast-food orders is raising concerns … Read more

Bybit Named Exclusive Payment Partner For Tomorrowland Brasil 2025-26, Launches Cardholder Presale

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DUBAI, UAE, March 22nd, 2025/Chainwire/–Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has partnered with Tomorrowland Brasil as its exclusive payment provider for 2025 and 2026. This landmark collaboration grants Bybit Card holders privileged early access to tickets before they become available to the general public – a first in Tomorrowland’s history. A Historic … Read more

Cathie Wood to kick off El Salvador's AI public education program

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Cathie Wood, founder of the Ark Invest investment firm, will give the inaugural lecture for El Salvador’s new Urban Centers for Welfare and Opportunities (CUBO) AI program, a public education initiative spearheaded by the government of El Salvador. According to El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office, the program will bring university-level AI courses to students and professionals … Read more

Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some

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Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record of where they’ve been — had disappeared. Now, Google has confirmed to Android Authority that it accidentally deleted the data and that anyone who wasn’t using Google’s cloud backups is out of luck. Here is … Read more

Solidity Is to Ethereum What Tact Is to TON — How to Build a Voting Smart Contract on TON Using Tact

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Most times, when people start learning how to write smart contracts, the first thing they hear about is Solidity and Ethereum. That was the first thing I heard about too. It’s what most tutorials focus on, and for good reason. Solidity made it possible to write programs that live on a blockchain, and Ethereum became … Read more

The Role of Curl Terms in Micromorphic Models

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

How Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Tensors Interact

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more