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Ugandan cryptocurrency startup promises jobs — steals employees’ money instead
A number of Ugandan citizens have been left in the lurch after being promised jobs at a cryptocurrency startup that's gone ...
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Victims lose $4.4B to cryptocurrency crime in first 9 months of 2019
It's been a bumper year so far for cryptocurrency criminals who have stolen over $4 billion worth of digital coins over the ...
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HSBC will reportedly use blockchain to move $20B in digital assets
Global bank HSBC is planning to track $20 billion worth of digital assets on a blockchain-based custody platform by March ...
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6 predictions on where European tech is headed in 2020, according to experts
2020 is set to be a defining year for European tech. While startups and scaleups have been supported over the years through ...
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How data science could save 6 million lives from preventable death by 2030
An initiative that will use digital technologies such as artificial intelligence has been launched to empower community health workers, ...
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CHEAP: Save... stylishly, with the $75 WD 3TB My Passport Ultra HD
Most of us have lost some digital data and, to be honest, that sucks. Luckily, this discount on a WD 3TB My Passport Ultra ...
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Facebook defends Libra comparing it to some of the 'most meaningful innovations' of our time — lol
Facebook’s Libra lead has defended the technology giant’s ‘cryptocurrency’ project at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.
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4 practical tips to verify if your customers are who they say they are
In the future, a digital ID may replace all your current forms of identification. At the same time, as we become more and ...
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How a blockchain-based digital ID system could help tackle human trafficking
What if emerging technologies such as blockchain could make it harder for criminals to traffic victims and make it easier ...
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ING says bank-owned digital currencies are coming — and we’re all doomed
Whether you like it or not, central bank digital currencies are coming. But opinions are divided as to when exactly we'll ...
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Should 'digital dopers' get banned from sports in the real world too?
This year cycling got its first British National Zwift e-racing champion, but it also got its first cheater. Here's what ...
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Russia reportedly enacts laws defining cryptocurrency and smart contracts
Russia has reportedly just enacted a new "digital rights act" that defines smart contracts and cryptocurrency tokens coming ...
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Moonday Mornings: NBA blocks player’s plan to tokenize contract with Ethereum
It's Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekends top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you can't afford to ...
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Should you be able to resell digitally purchased games?
Steam was this week hit with a ruling from a French court that penalizes the site for banning the resale of digital games. ...
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ING: People who know the least about cryptocurrencies are the most excited about them
Were you thinking that cryptocurrency mass adoption was just around the corner? Well, think again. A recent study from ING ...
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Moonday Mornings: Teen allegedly stole unreleased A-list music to sell for Bitcoin
Gather round forkers, it's time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Cryptography startup sues Black Hat conference after getting booed and heckled
A cryptography startup is taking things up a notch and is suing organizers of security conference Black Hat USA after being ...
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CHEAP: Lord! A WD 10TB external hard drive for $180 is a BLESSING — praise be!
We all need storage to keep our sweet digital files safe, so take advantage of this deal for a WD 10TB external hard drive ...
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Facebook open-sources APIs to help fight child exploitation and terrorist propaganda
Facebook today announced it's open-sourcing two technologies that help it fight problems like child exploitation, terrorist ...
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No, you don't own your apps — here's why it feels like you do
Possessions are going out of fashion. An endless stream of media reports claim millennials – that amorphous mass of people ...
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Here's how algorithms can protect us against deepfakes
Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons ...
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How big biased datasets make social inequalities worse
At almost every point in our day, we interact with digital technologies which collect our data. From the moment our smart ...
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Humans and AI will work better when they start learning from each other
In the age of big data and breathtaking advances of artificial intelligence, social infrastructure promotes digital engagement ...
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The Wayback Machine can now highlight changes in copy on websites
The Wayback Machine has a new feature called "Changes" that lets you compare two different archives of a URL, giving a side-by-side ...
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JP Morgan claims big institutions are hot for its (non-)cryptocurrency
Despite dividing opinions earlier this year with JPM Coin, American bank JP Morgan is rolling out its blockchain-based tech ...
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CHEAP: $60 for this 2TB Western Digital portable HD? TIME TO TEAR OFF OUR CLOTHES IN JOY
Everyone needs a hard drive. Whether you want to easily transport your data, or keep your files safe, this 2TB external portable ...
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Here's how digital forensics experts track down hackers
As society becomes increasingly data driven, the importance of ensuring this data’s security and fidelity grows exponentially. ...
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New algorithm allows researchers to change what people say on video by editing transcript
The idea that the algorithm make changes in the video just by changing transcript while preserving the speaker's characteristics. ...
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South African voters fear mobile political campaigns will steal their personal info
Mobile technology will arguably go down in history as the most successful innovation of our lifetime. Mobile devices, especially ...
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Only 2% of Japan’s 340,000 money laundering cases involve cryptocurrency
Japan's efforts to regulate the cryptocurrency industry might have come a little later than needed, as the country has seen ...
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The digital farming revolution will cost workers their power, dignity, and possibly their jobs
There’s a lot of talk about digital technology and smart cities, but what about smart farms? Many of us still have a romantic ...
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Japan finance regulator raids cryptocurrency exchanges in money laundering sweep
Japan's financial watchdog has reportedly raided two major cryptocurrency exchanges, juuust to make sure everything is up ...
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You don't really own the digital books and movies you bought online
Microsoft has announced that it will close the books category of its digital store. While other software and apps will still ...
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Microsoft's Bing blocked 5,000,000 cryptocurrency ads in 2018
Microsoft's Bing has boasted it successfully blocked more than 5 million cryptocurrency-related ads, after it imposed a strict ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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The fastest growing internet market isn't the one you think
For a country that few people know exists, Western Sahara has had a uniquely tumultuous history. Its modern history starts, ...
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Study shows we're spending an insane amount of time online
On average, each of us spends 100 days of each year online.
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How to ‘Marie Kondo’ your digital life in 2019
The new year represents a fresh start, with people gearing up for self-improvement. While most New Year’s resolutions involve ...
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The 'female blackout' protest didn't work — it silenced women
A viral post flooded women's direct messages on Facebook urging them to leave Facebook for the day and "black out" their ...
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Sext-shaming won't stop revenge porn — and it's sexist
The Dutch police have called on young people to stop sexting completely. This announcement came as a solution to prevent ...
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Keep your digital life secure with these 6 simple tricks
Data breaches, widespread malware attacks, and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018. As ...
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Cryptocurrency analysts predict the end of the Bitcoin bear market
Cryptocurrency analysts have used the cumulative age of Bitcoin transactions to determine exactly what point BTC holders ...
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How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)
Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...
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Here’s how a second-hand game market for digital copies should work
What if we did have a secondary market for digital copies of video games? How would it work, what would it look like, and ...
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MasterCard wants to make electronic payments anonymous… with blockchain
According to a recent patent application, the payment infrastructure provider, MasterCard, wants to anonymize "electronic ...
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Hello Big Brother: EU wants to manage your digital identity on the blockchain
Blockchain promised us freedom and liberation from centralized authorities like governments, but in the latest report from ...
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Switzerland says its national blockchain will be more secure than Bitcoin – it won’t be
Swiss Post and Swisscom are building a completely private Swiss blockchain for launching locally operated "decentralized" ...
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France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up
France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma opens a startup hub in Kigali to support Afrikan innovation
A new hub has been opened in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to assist the country's small and medium-sized enterprises, as well ...
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Alibaba exec Brian Wong explains the company’s plans for Afrika
After training their first cohort of 24 Afrikan startups, Alibaba went on to launch another initiative aimed at empowering ...
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New whisteblower app fights forced evictions in Kenya
The Sengwer community in Embobut Forest is now using "This Is My Backyard" app, to document, and boost negotiations to resolve ...
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What Amazon’s Alexa microwave teaches us about interacting with AI assistants
Does it make sense to put a voice assistant in your microwave? Amazon, the leader in smart speakers and voice assistants, ...
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How to perfect your digital copywriting
Does anyone actually know what it means to be a copywriter in the digital age? Each and every day, a wave of ecommerce shoppers, ...
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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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Genies makes realistic looking Bitmoji that can be used in other apps
Genies has launched their new Android and iOS mobile app that lets users create a digital version of themselves that looks ...
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Post-WannaCry: Only 3% of companies are prepared for new types of cyberattacks
One year ago, my phone lit up with the first text alert about the WannaCry ransomware attack. From the onset, it was clear ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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We’re living in digital serfdom — trading privacy for convenience
Think for a second: compared to your grandparents and parents, what do you actually own outright? Why own when you can ...
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AI’s success hinges on new attitudes — not old regulations
We need to stop regulating machine learning models as if they were computer programs, and start thinking about how to use ...
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Latin America joins EU in considering a new digital tax
Mexico and Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina are the current Latin American countries who are considering the EU Digital ...
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8 expert predictions on what will define tech in 2019
On the imminent death of native apps, and seven other trend predictions.
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October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy
The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing digital media regulation laws. Rumors have been swirling that Uber and regional equivalent Careem might be set to merge in Egypt, but it’s not going ...
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The average of these 5 death clocks could be the day you die
These 5 death clocks know when you're going to die using information about you and your lifestyle. Including your age, BMI, ...
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ASMR videos could be a new digital therapy for mental health
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos could help mental health issues. Videos include soft-whispering and relaxing ...
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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria
Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, ...
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We were promised digitized health care... what’s the delay?
The issues faced by many in the healthcare industry when it comes to digitization are vast, not only in the UK and Europe ...
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Here’s how you can painlessly integrate voice in your business
A digital voice strategy that will end up proving lucrative for businesses and useful for consumers is one that places customer ...
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‘Free tech’ economy creates harmful monopolies and alters our self-expression
Many of the world’s biggest companies would be giving away their services for free in today’s digital economy and costs ...
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A hands-on approach to designing for kids
This article aims to share a series of advices, stemming from lessons learned from designing for kids over a period of 12 ...
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Google releases tools for probing Ethereum's blockchain
Google has added Ethereum support to its BigQuery database tool, giving us a new method of analyzing data stored on its blockchain. ...
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To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees
Looking for new candidates can be an expensive process. Actively encouraging your employees to spend time on their learning ...
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Revolut launches Metal debit card that gives 'cashback' in cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency users have a new way of showing dedication to the cause. Meet Revolut's solid metal card that literally pays ...
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Zuckerberg's failures must be your lessons
After a worldwind of a year for Facebook (so far), we must take something away from it. There's a lot to learn from Suckerberg's ...
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All Android phones should run stock OS (including you Samsung!)
Countless consumers around the globe cherish the customization options available to them when it comes to their smartphones, ...
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Prepare yourself: Facebook could be the future of national census
Every ten years, governments around the world conduct their national census: a count of the resident population. This is ...
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This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR
GDPR -- no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about ...
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G20: Cryptocurrencies are okay, blockchains are great, and money laundering is still a problem
G20 has announced that cryptocurrencies pose no significant risk to global financial stability, but money laundering is still ...
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Designers, don’t be afraid to let robots design
In 1961, Alan Perlis, an early pioneer in computer science, advocated that computer programming should be a requirement of ...
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This app will pay you for every step you take
Starting today, the easiest way to make some money is by doing what you already do so often -- walking. Sweatcoin is a new ...
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Master promoting and selling online with this digital marketing masterclass—only $9
Digital marketing has advanced by leaps and bounds this century, and it’s time to know all the inside info that can push ...
