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• Mining cryptocurrency has become fashionable for charities - but does it work?

  Change.org has taken notice of other global charities and launched their own, embedded, online cryptocurrency mining portal. ...

  • David Canellis

• Hyperloop TT strikes deal to build test track in China

  Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), a crowdsourced enterprise, has reportedly struck a deal with China to build ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• Review of top 50 ICOs shows most promise things they will never deliver

  The paper concludes that the ICO market is being held together by trust placed in coders not well versed in consumer protections ...

  • David Canellis

• Applying for a patent - $15K, Mastercard patenting even more blockchain - priceless

  Mastercard have filed yet another another blockchain-related patent application, this one for a system to manage a fractional ...

  • David Canellis

• Walmart is reportedly building a video streaming service to take on Netflix

  The Information reports that retail giant Walmart is thinking about getting into the streaming video business with a new ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Fans pay homage to Drake by hurling themselves from moving cars

  Remember the cinnamon challenge? Unknowing people on YouTube grabbed a teaspoonful of cinnamon and chugged it down before coughing up clouds of dust. It was stupid, but sometimes chuckle-worthy. Those were simpler times. But as things often do, they escalated from there. There ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Apple's emojified execs sure look awful as humans

  Today's World Emoji Day. To celebrate this stupid holiday I turned Apple's executive staff – who had some poor corporate artist turn them into emoji – back into humans. Why? Maybe to protest the both the creation of idiotic holidays and the subsequent corporate takeover ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• IBM and Columbia University are tag-teaming the blockchain

  The Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency will leverage Columbia’s academic and scientific networks ...

  • David Canellis

• Jeff Bezos must spend his $150B helping humanity otherwise he's a scumbag

  Well, it's happened. Amazon's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, is now the richest person ever. According to Bloomberg, Amazon's recent stock rise means he's now worth $150bn – outstripping what Bill Gates was worth in 1999. It's hard to actually imagine just how much money 150,000,000,000 ...

  • Callum Booth

• EOS rumored for new wave of investments from Bitmain and billionaire Peter Thiel

  Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who co-founded PayPal, is rumoured to have backed development group Block.one and by extension ...

  • David Canellis

• Google has a handy new job search tool for UK users

  Google wants to help you find your next job.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Kodak has quietly canceled its stupid (and very expensive) Bitcoin miner

  The Kodak-branded Bitcoin miner, KashMiner, is officially dead – which is great because it never made sense in the first ...

  • David Canellis