Working with strings in Rust (2020)
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Binance Hired Compliance SVP From Rival Crypto Exchange Kraken
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance hired Steven Christie as its senior vice president (SVP) of compliance from rival Kraken in May, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report Friday.
Rad Power offers first e-bike subscriptions in Europe
The RadRunner e-bike (left) and RadWagon e-cargo bike (right) can now be rented in Berlin. | Image: Rad Power Rad Power e-bikes can now be rented in Berlin, via a partnership with local firm Cycle. Monthly subscriptions in the German capital cost €79.90 (about $78) for either a RadRunner utility e-bike or RadWagon e-cargo bike. … Read more
Podcasting is just radio now
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Apple Big Pink #3 (1990) [pdf]
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China accounts for 84% of all blockchain patent applications, but there’s a catch
China’s push for blockchain technology gained steam after 2019 when President Xi Jinping called for corporations from tech giants to become industry leaders in the nascent tech.
European stock exchange to list Bitcoin carbon neutral ETP
The environmentally-focused financial product was introduced by a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies.
Garmin introduces its first smart blood pressure monitor
The Garmin Index Smart Blood Pressure Monitor can sync with the Garmin Connect app, keeping all your self recorded health data in one place. | Image: Garmin Garmin now has an FDA-cleared (not to be confused with FDA approved) smart blood pressure monitor to accompany its other health-focused wearables. The Garmin Index BPM Smart Blood … Read more
Metaverse Infrastructure Firm Hadean Raises $30M From Fortnite Developer, Others
Hadean, a company aiming to build the infrastructure for metaverse environments, raised $30 million in a funding round that included online video game Fornite developer Epic Games among the investors.
SerMorpheus wants to make NFTs an everyday sight in Indonesia
More than half of the population in Southeast Asia is under 30, making it a coveted market for novel technologies. Unsurprisingly, several countries in the region, like Singapore and Vietnam, have some of the world’s highest crypto adoption rates. While Indonesia isn’t the most crypto active in the region — total crypto value received was … Read more
Local Neon
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IRS to summon users who don’t report and pay tax on crypto transactions
The summons requires M.Y. Safra Bank to submit information about taxpayers who failed to report and pay their taxes on crypto.
Literate DevOps (2014)
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Apple Music to sponsor Super Bowl halftime show amidst push into sports
Snoop Dogg performs at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2022. | Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Apple Music will sponsor next February’s Super Bowl halftime show, replacing long-time sponsor Pepsi. In a press release, the NFL says over 120 million people watched the Super Bowl LVI halftime show in February this year, which featured … Read more
Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Backed by Epic Games, distributed computing startup Hadean nabs $30M to power the metaverse
Hadean, a U.K.-based distributed, spatial computing startup that’s setting out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse, has closed a $30 million seres A round of funding from a high-profile cast of investors including Epic Games and Tencent. Founded out of London in 2015, Hadean started out with a broad mission to put “supercomputer … Read more
A Love Letter to Planetary
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