The term community has two distinct commutative meanings: 1 Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values. The term can also refer to the national community or international community, and 2) in biology, a community is a group of interacting living organisms sharing a populated environment.
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Ethereum had a less than stellar Q3, intense 6 months ahead as ETH 2.0 looms — here's what happened
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum had a great second quarter of this year, but the same cannot be said of Q3. Let's take a look ...
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How coworking spaces need to evolve after the WeWork disaster
For too long, coworking has marketed itself to the world on trends and hype. But people don’t buy hype, they buy value ...
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Why humans are psychologically inclined to mistrust ‘the other’
Whether they are proposing to build a wall or to exit an international coalition, populist politicians like to pitch themselves ...
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YouTube completely gives up trying for Rewind 2019
YouTube today released Rewind 2019, its year-end video summing up the biggest things that happened on the site this year. ...
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Legendary Bitcoin contributor Hal Finney’s Twitter profile is safe — for now
Bitcoin fans can rest easy as Twitter has backpedalled on its plans to purge inactive accounts until it can figure out how ...
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Pro-anorexia forums are dangerous — but they can teach us a lot about community and understanding
In recent years, a cultural movement has emerged online that takes a positive attitude toward eating disorders. So-called ...
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Zcash founders hand trademarks to non-profit foundation — for free!
The creators of privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash are handing ownership of the coin's trademark to the Zcash Foundation ...
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A cacophony of self-pity drowns out r/The_Donald's message as Reddit extends quarantine
Reddit's taken r/The_Donald's teeth away. The once proud community was, in its heyday, the vanguard for the MAGA movement. ...
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What reading r/The_Donald every day for a month taught me
I tried to get 'red pilled' by r/The_Donald and I didn't even get a T-shirt. What I did get though, was a deep enough understanding ...
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Meet the brave devs trying to take Dogecoin beyond the meme
Hard Fork spoke with devs Ross Nicoll and Michi Lumin about what it takes to take Dogecoin beyond its meme and build it into ...
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'Crypto-Twitter' really wants a Satoshi symbol — but nobody can agree on one
The 'crypto-Twitter' community wants a symbol for small denominations of Bitcoin, known as Satoshis. There's loads of options, ...
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Ethereum lagged in active dapp users in Q2, but its price doubled - here's what happened
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum had one of the best quarters it's had in a while, despite this, it still lags behind TRON in terms ...
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A blockchain payment system can empower refugees – if they participate in its design
In Lebanon, around 350,000 Syrian refugees don’t have access to enough safe and nutritious food. To stem the crisis, the ...
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Neuroscientists scanned radicals' brains to determine what makes them turn violent
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical ...
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YouTube clumsily tries to rectify its confusing anti-harassment policies (again)
YouTube has said it will reexamine its harassment policies and update them in "consultation with experts, creators, journalists ...
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'Crypto-Twitter' is explaining Bitcoin in 280 characters or less
Cryptocurrency fans on Twitter have been challenged: define Bitcoin in a single tweet as effectively as possible. Here are ...
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Why Snapchat’s new gender swap feature is problematic for many trans people
You’ve probably seen it all over your social media timelines and stories this week — friends using Snapchat’s new gender-bending ...
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Reddit’s CTO: Designers should know these two things
At TNW2019, Reddit’s Chief Technical Officer, Chris Slowe, shared some behind-the-scenes insights into what makes the message ...
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Africa's mobile-based healthcare initiatives need regulatory and community support - not just funding
As a community health worker tasked with tracking infant vaccinations in Kenya, Collince Oluoch was overwhelmed by ...
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Here's how we can make STEM classes more accessible to students in rural America
More than ever before, there is a high demand in the workforce for an increased emphasis on education in mathematics and ...
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Tumblr’s Head of Culture and Fashion shares the platform's most curious subcultures
Valentine Uhovski started his career as an editor and journalist, and has written for the likes of The Wall Street Journal ...
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What's behind the curious serenading of cybercriminals in Nigerian hip-hop?
Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the ...
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Blockchain governance is boring, butt one developer solved it with assplay
There's a new way to make blockchain bearable: replace every mention of "governance" with "assplay" across the internet. ...
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This app exposes which cryptocurrency a user is most likely to shill on Twitter
Coinflict of Interest will tell you the odds a particular Twitter user showing will show biases towards Bitcoin, Ethereum, ...
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4 reasons why you should try 'social trading' — and learn from the best
Of the many features that exist in online trading, social trading is one of the most innovative and could present new opportunities ...
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Here's how much 'Bitcoin Twitter' loves presidential candidate Andrew Yang
Cryptocurrency fans have a favorite presidential candidate. They believe his plan to gift $1,000 to US citizens every month ...
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he will pay you to work on Bitcoin full-time
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made an offer to the cryptocurrency community: he will pay devs to work on Bitcoin full time. ...
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Apps are the unexpected savior of dying indigenous languages
In a globalized world, “global languages” have come increasingly to the fore, often at the expense of smaller, regional ...
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How Netflix is dominating the cultural conversation
Netflix appears to be on a mission to bring back the cultural conversation. However, this time around our daily narrative ...
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One year after massive takedowns, dark web marketplaces are thriving
The past year has been one of the most tumultuous for the dark web, as massive law enforcement efforts have untangled and ...
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Only half of humanity is online, how do we connect the rest?
Internet connectivity is coming to be regarded worldwide as no less than essential infrastructure, and yet it's estimated ...
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The controversies of blockchain governance and rough consensus
The governance of blockchains is one of the most fascinating, contentious, and difficult topics to master, but it’s one ...
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Massive Twitch livestream showcases the future of online fundraising
Twitch streamer H.Bomberguy raked in more than $340,000 in donations for a beleaguered children’s charity during a marathon ...
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Facebook now lets you create petitions for social causes
In the past few years, Facebook's been concentrating on community-based features like Candidate Info and Town Hall to increase ...
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Mark Zuckerberg resolves to hold public talks on the future of tech this year
In 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to "host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society." ...
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3 surprising ways social ‘neighborhood’ apps could boost your business
Have you ever logged onto Facebook, only to be inundated with mundane status updates from your ex-high school classmate or ...
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The best and worst gaming stories of 2018
2018 has been a year with some awesome games, and some not-so-awesome things happening in the gaming industry. Here are the ...
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6 low-cost marketing tactics to boost your startups’ presence
As a startup, your time and money may be limited -- especially for marketing. But you don’t always need an elaborate marketing ...
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Tumblr's porn ban slams the door on women and other marginalized communities
After graphic images of child sex abuse appeared on Tumblr in November, the app was quickly removed from Apple's App store ...
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YouTube Rewind 2018 hit with most dislikes ever thanks to its too-clean imagery
This year's YouTube Rewind just surpassed a Justin Bieber song to become the most-disliked video ever made on the platform. ...
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FairBnB is an ethical alternative to Airbnb, coming in 2019
FairBnB aims to bring much needed fairness to the vacation rental markets, focusing on giving communities a voice and a stake ...
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Reddit's data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr's NSFW content
After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet ...
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Mixer may have found the secret sauce for paying streamers full-time
Mixer, Microsoft's game streaming service, has always played second fiddle to Twitch. But a new payment paradigm on Mixer ...
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Meet Silicon Valley's most unlikely venture capitalist
It's very difficult to find an hour of Arlan Hamilton's time — besides for running Backstage Capital, a VC firm "investing ...
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Twitter finally banned misgendering transgender people
Last month, Twitter banned misgendering transgender people as a part of a wider update to its hateful conduct policy. The ...
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Here's how we take back control over our digital identities
The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But ...
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5 crucial lessons learned from 2 years of building TNW’s tech hub
Two years ago, we opened the doors to TQ — TNW’s first tech hub in the center of Amsterdam. At the time, I was organizing ...
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Instagram's rumored School Stories could be cool -- with rigorous moderation
Word on the street is that Instagram is testing a new, collaborative kind of Story -- specifically, a kind which would be ...
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We need to build AI systems we can trust
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are routinely being used to support human decision-making in a multitude of applications. ...
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Farmers blame Volkswagen's 'weather cannons' for recent drought
Facing ominous skies, Volkswagen was prepared. It wasn't sweating the forecast, which included calls for rain and, perhaps, ...
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EOS community fights back against 'whales' controlling its blockchain
The EOS community is anxious that its blockchain is being controlled by 'whales', with a petition being drafted seeking limits ...
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Coindar is the nifty cryptocurrency trading tool that every investor should use
Coindar is a cryptocurrency calendar for your desktop with a direct line to the developers of blockchain projects - which ...
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This app makes picking your next movie easier than ever
Researching what movie to watch sucks. This app makes it sucks less.
