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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

• A budget version of the BlackBerry Key2 is on the way

  The KEY2 Lite will likely be announced at IFA in August.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Coinbase says it never needed SEC approval to list security tokens

  Shortly after revealing it got the SEC's blessing for a trio of aquisitions, cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase has backtracked ...

  • Mix

• Study links frequent gadget use to increased ADHD symptoms in teens

  It's no secret that the number of hours teens spend on electronic devices has some impact on their well-being. What scientists ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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

• The Daily Caller's doxxing of Sleeping Giants was a dick move

  Irony is when you attempt to harm an organization by doxxing its founder but only end up empowering it's hundreds of thousands ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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

• Mozilla wants to localize the most popular Firefox add-ons

  Mozilla's add-ons now speak your language.

  • 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

• Paralyzed man invents hands-free instrument. Now he wants to play the anthem at a MLB game

  Let's send Dave Whalen to the Major Leagues! He was paralyzed at age 19, but now he's ready to rock after inventing the Jamboxx, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Shillingham United XI: A dream team of footballers backing crappy cryptocurrencies

  We’ve decided to put together a dream team of the most popular footballers to have lent their reputation to shady cryptocurrency ...

  • David Canellis

• Report: Apple's iPhone 6 has the highest failure rate among iPhones -- but Samsung is worse

  A recent study of the past five years' worth of iPhone releases saw that the iPhone 6 was, hands down, the worst Apple handset ...

  • Bryan Clark