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Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS
3.3.2020
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Robin recently lamented the common complaint that CSS is frustrating. There are misconceptions about what it is and what it does. There are debates about what kind of language it is. There are even different views on where it should be written.
Rachel Andrew has a...
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21.1.2020
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Say you have an address that your user typed in, like
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, USA
and now you need more information about it. Maybe you need the proper country code. Maybe you need the latitude and longitude. Maybe you need the postal code....
Wall St. to Washington: Bakkt Launches New Products, CEO Joins Senate
13.12.2019
Bakkt is finishing 2019 with a bang, debuting the first U.S.-regulated options along with cash-settled futures, while its CEO will soon take a U.S. Senate seat. What does this news mean for the market?
BlockFi to Offer First Interest-Bearing Crypto Accounts in Washington State
12.12.2019
BlockFi has obtained a money transmission license in Washington and intends to offer interest-bearing crypto accounts in the state
2019: The Year Washington, Silicon Valley and Beijing Faced Off Over Crypto
10.12.2019
Hacks, futures, settlements, flippenings, geopolitical conflict -- 2019 had it all
US Judge Denies Customer’s Plea to Quash IRS Bitstamp Inquiry
28.11.2019
A Washington Western District Court judge has rejected petitioner William Zietzke’s appeal to stop the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from accessing his Bitstamp trade data. An IRS summons invoked Zietzke to file a petition to quash the tax agency’s investigation into his private...
Bitfinex and Tether Receive Another Class Action Lawsuit in US Courts
27.11.2019
The operators of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the stablecoin Tether have notified users that they were hit with another class action lawsuit in U.S. courts over market manipulation allegations that the companies are trying to frame as mercenary and baseless. Also Read: Bitfinex Claims...
Brad Garlinghouse Speaks about Libra, Ripple, and Stablecoins at Washington DC Fintech Week
14.11.2019
Washington DC’s annual Fintech Week was recently concluded and it was quite an important one from the perspective of the crypto industry. One of the most influential personalities from the industry, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, attended the event and spoke about various aspects of the crypto...
State Bank of India Chief Argues Crypto Regulation Is a Must
25.10.2019
The chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI) has spoken in favor of cryptocurrency regulation in an interview. He believes that it is necessary to regulate cryptocurrencies. Last week, the chairman attended IMF meetings in Washington, D.C., with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Also read:...
Ripple Boosts Blockchain Advocacy Efforts With New Washington DC Office
22.10.2019
Ripple has opened a new D.C. office and expanded its regulatory team as it seeks to better educate policymakers on blockchain tech
Turkey Throws Another Wrench Into the USD’s Works and Joins Russian Swift
11.10.2019
The dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political influence Washington exerts through its fiat money. And in times of trade wars, sanctions...
EOS Parent Firm Block.one Opens Up Headquarters in Washington DC
25.9.2019
Block.one is opening a new headquarters for its U.S. operations arm in the Washington, D.C. metro area
EOS Maker Block.One Expands US Footprint With DC-Area HQ
25.9.2019
Block.One, the software company behind the EOS blockchain, will expand its U.S. footprint with a new headquarters in Arlington County, Va
Washington Elite Announces Summit in Vienna
23.9.2019
The Austrian capital hosts some of the world’s brightest minds in smart city, crypto, M&A and renewable energy October 11 - 12 during the Washington Elite AI and Blockchain Summit – Smart City Edition in Vienna, Austria.
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Government Hates Crypto Because It Empowers the People, Not Because It’s Used for Crime
10.9.2019
A recent article from MIT Technology Review has leveraged a somewhat sensationalist headline to stir up fear about bitcoin and crypto. The article, written about a “hidden” government weapon to be deployed against Bitcoin, references September 3 senate subcommittee testimony...
Register Now for An Event Apart 2019 in Chicago
1.8.2019
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An Event Apart juuuuust wrapped up its Washington D.C. event yesterday. We hope we got to see you at the event but if not, perhaps we'll see you at the next one happening Aug. 28-28 in Chicago.
Why would you go, you might ask? It's three days of experts imparting their...
Amazon Alexa Would Soon be Able to Identify a Heart Attack and Save Lives
24.6.2019
Heart attacks are one of the biggest reasons behind deaths all over the world, but Amazon’s Alexa is going to introduce a service that could preempt heart attacks. Heart failures are one of the biggest reasons behind death all across the world, and the failures that happen outside hospitals...
Storecoin brings tokenized data to the masses, announces latest milestone-based token offering
20.6.2019
With every policy shift, every deplatforming, and every data breach, our faith in Big Tech decreases. In Washington, the drums of anti-trust beat ever louder. But what consumers truly want isn’t necessarily a break up of today’s tech companies: they […]
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Snag Resources from An Event Apart Boston 2019 and Save on Washington D.C. Registration
6.6.2019
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Hey, so we talked a little bit about An Event Apart Boston 2019 leading up to the event and now there are a ton of resources available from it. I stopped counting the number of links after 50 because there's way more than that. Seriously, there's stuff in there...
Zkapalňování nebožtíků je stále populárnější. Nyní se přidal i Washington
29.5.2019
Washingtonský guvernér Jay Inslee podepsal zákon (via NYT), který na severozápadě USA legalizuje nové techniky pohřbívání lidských ostatků – kompostování nebo třeba alkalickou hydrolýzu.
Zákon plně vstoupí v platnost na jaře příštího roku a dá šanci třeba pohřebnímu startupu Recompose, který