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Gold Investors Are Terrified Central Banks Might Dump Bullion During the Economic Crisis
3.4.2020
Despite what gold bug Peter Schiff says, economists are uncertain that gold will shine during the current coronavirus crisis. While gold and other precious metals have seen decent gains in the last few weeks, a few investors are terrified that central banks will use their flight-to-safety assets...
Getting JavaScript to Talk to CSS and Sass
3.4.2020
JavaScript and CSS have lived beside one another for upwards of 20 years. And yet it’s been remarkably tough to share data between them. There have been large attempts, sure. But, I have something simple and intuitive in mind — something not involving a structural change, but rather putting...
Binance Acquires Popular Crypto Data Website CoinMarketCap for Undisclosed Amount
3.4.2020
Binance announced on Thursday that it has acquired leading crypto data website CoinMarketCap. The acquisition amount stays undisclosed, though the media reports suggest that it could be around a whopping $400 million. Changpeng Zhao, Binance CEO, had informed yesterday that the two giants in their...
[aktualita] Jak se kvůli COVID-19 změnil pohyb obyvatel? Google zveřejnil data i pro Česko
3.4.2020
Na základě dat sbíraných v rámci Google Maps zveřejnil Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. Mají pomoci k posouzení, jak se v souvislosti s koronavirovou epidemií změnilo chování lidí. Pro jednotlivé země v nich na základě agregovaných anonymizovaných údajů ukazuje, jak se změnil pohyb...
Cointext Cofounder Unveils BFP Encrypt – Send Encrypted Data to Bitcoin Cash Addresses
3.4.2020
Vin Armani, the cofounder of Cointext, has announced the launch of a Javascript library that allows people to send encrypted data to addresses on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. A BCH private key can decrypt the data, and when Armani released the Javascript package, the developer stressed that...
Accessibility Links
2.4.2020
Austin Gil has kicked off the first in a five-part series about “HTML Forms Right” and to starts with semantics. It’s talking to the “we build our front-ends with JavaScript” crowd. The first block of code is an example of an Ajax form submission where the data...
Krásné snímky i důležitá data. Evropské družice Sentinel monitorují celou planetu
2.4.2020
Menší satelitní síť provozuje i Evropská unie • Program Copernicus se věnuje sledování pevniny, atmosféry a oceánů • Data z družic jsou volně k dispozici
[aktualita] Videokonferenční služba Zoom posílala data Facebooku a neříká pravdu o šifrování
2.4.2020
Popularita videokonferenční služby Zoom v posledních týdnech raketově vzrostla. Důvodem je vyšší potřeba lidí v době epidemie COVID-19 komunikovat přes internet – ať už z pracovních důvodů, v rámci školní výuky na dálku nebo pro soukromé účely. Se stoupajícím zájmem se na Zoom zaměřila také vyšší...
Unofficial Iranian Telegram Applications Leak Data of 42M Users
31.3.2020
Data of 42 million Iranians using unofficial Telegram messengers got publicly exposed online
Ex-State Street Blockchain Team Drops DLT From New Data-Privacy Startup
31.3.2020
Data privacy startup Manetu goes live early next month with $3.5 million in backing from Castle Island Ventures and others
Wide Gamut Color in CSS with Display-P3
31.3.2020
Here’s something I’d never heard of before: Display-P3 support in CSS Color Module Level 4 spec. This is a new color profile supported by certain displays and it introduces a much wider range of colors that we can choose from.
Right now the syntax looks something like this in CSS:
header...
[aktualita] Firmu provozující měření sledovanosti napadl ransomware, data se opozdí
31.3.2020
Společnost Nielsen Admosphere, která na českém televizním trhu zajišťuje měření sledovanosti, i její dceřiná společnost Adwind Software byly v noci napadeny ransomwarem. Podle tiskového prohlášení firmy se tak stalo ve 23.30. Ransomware šifruje důležitá data na zařízení a požaduje výkupné...
gqless
30.3.2020
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It’s very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data in templates.
But what if you didn’t have to write the query at all? What if you just wrote the templates pretending you already...
Bitcoin Mining Roundup: BTC Regains 100 Exahash, Miners Close Shop, Pre-Halving Shake-Up
30.3.2020
In 44 days, BTC miners will face the third reward halving as the block subsidy will soon shrink from 12.5 to 6.25 coins per block. Following the market carnage in mid-March, BTC’s hashrate plummeted 44% to a 2020 low of 75 exahash per second (EH/s). Since then the hashrate has climbed back...
How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset
30.3.2020
Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
.el {
transform: rotate(10deg) scale(0.95) translate(10px, 10px);
}
...we can do:
.el {
rotate: 10deg;
scale: 0.95;
translate: 10px 10px;
}
That's extremely...
Celsius Partners With Chainlink to Decentralize Price Data
30.3.2020
Celsius Network will begin using Chainlink’s price data feed oracles while offering treasury management services to the oracle platform
US Cash in Circulation Sees Biggest Increase Since the Y2K Bug Panic, Fed Reserve Data Indicates
30.3.2020
U.S. currency in circulation has experienced its largest increase in over 20 years
[aktualita] Počty testů či rozdělených roušek. Údaje o COVID-19 jsou k dispozici jako otevřená data
30.3.2020
Ústav zdravotnických informací a statistiky ČR (ÚZIS) začal zveřejňovat některé údaje související s epidemií COVID-19 ve formě otevřených dat. K dispozici jsou zatím čtyři datasety: údaje o celkovém (kumulativním) počtu provedených testů podle hlášení laboratoří, celkovém (kumulativním) počtu...
In-Between Bitcoin Halvings: Analyst Proves Bitcoin’s Price Not Bound to 4-Year Cycles
29.3.2020
Crypto traders and analysts have always looked to the halvings for some kind of clues in order to predict the future price of bitcoin. A number of traders also think that BTC price movements shift every four years and speculators often use the halvings as milestone markers. On March 28, crypto...
Microsoft Patents New Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data
29.3.2020
Microsoft has patented a cryptocurrency mining system that leverages human activities, including brain waves and body heat, when performing online tasks such as using search engines, chatbots, and reading ads. “A user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,”...