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Now is the Time to Get Your Business Protected from Cyberthreats (Sponsored)
23.3.2021
Malware has been a problem for decades, one that was exacerbated by the the rise of the internet, file sharing, and digital assets. Whether it’s keyloggers or other types of malware, they’ll make your computer slow and insecure, all without you knowing. And if you’re an employer...
Diablo II: Resurrected Will Work With Your Decades-Old Saves
5.3.2021
Have a special Necromancer you’ve been farming Diablo II with for years? There’s good news: Diablo II Resurrected will let you import them to continue commanding armies of the dead over 20 years later.Read more
Sunday Comics: I Outrank You!
28.2.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
From Gold to Greenbacks: A Look at the US Dollar’s Devaluation, Manipulation and Militant Backing
26.2.2021
228 years ago the U.S. dollar was created and ever since then, the national currency has been both powerful and controversial at the same time. Moreover since 1971, after being backed by precious metals for decades, American dollars have been backed by nothing and estimates say a quarter of...
Decades Later, Sailor Saturn's Transformation Scene Appears In Anime
9.2.2021
For well over two decades, we haven’t seen the henshin shiin (変身シーン) or “transformation scene” from Sailor Moon’s Sailor Saturn in an anime. That is, it seems, until now.Read more
Davos Watch: 'Don't Take Things For Granted For The Next Decades'
26.1.2021
François Villeroy de Galhau. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/CNBC International TV
With the pandemic triggering intensified economic and financial stimulus by governments across the world, regulators and banks consider they fulfilled their mission of ensuring liquidity to the markets, but...
Decades After Ban, Robot Anime Getting Live-Action Version In The Philippines
18.1.2021
Robot anime Choudenji Machine Voltes V debuted on Japanese television in the late 1970s. Now, decades late, it is getting a live-action television show in the Philippines.Read more
Unfinished Japanese PS1 Game Completed, Released Two Decades Later
4.1.2021
In 1998 a small team of Japanese developers spent eight months working on a game called Magic Castle, which they sent off as a pitch to seven major publishers, including Sony. It never went anywhere, but thanks to emulators and the efforts of one of the original team, we can now play it and enjoy...
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21.10.2020
This is a neat little HTML preprocessor from Giuseppe Gurgone. It has very few features, but one of them is HTML includes, which is something I continue to be baffled that HTML doesn’t support natively. There are loads of ways to handle it. I think it’s silly that it’s been...
Keiser Insists ‘Bitcoin Inversely Correlated To USD Not Stock Markets’ After Crypto Market Tumble
23.9.2020
Reports that global banking giants helped criminals launder money for close to two decades helped spark the crash of global stock markets on Monday, September 21. Also tumbling in tandem with stocks were cryptocurrencies thus leading to renewed concerns that digital assets are intertwined with...
Bank of France: stablecoins could impact EU financial sovereignty ‘for decades’
11.9.2020
Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau wanted about the threat of "Big Tech" stablecoins
Chapter 1: Birth
5.8.2020
Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and stored and transmitted. How it passes from person to person. How the seeds of information become the roots of dramatic change. It is so fundamental...
Stimulus Is Failing: Global Banks to Break Support Levels, US Dollar Plummets to 2-Year Low
31.7.2020
Central banks worldwide have injected further stimulus into the economy, as European Union (EU) leaders recently approved a $2.1 trillion budget, the Bank of England boosted stimulus injections in mid-June, and the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it would keep lending until the end...
Cryptocurrency Is Agorism in Action
17.2.2020
The book “New Libertarian Manifesto” (NLM) by libertarian-anarchist Samuel E. Konkin III (SEK3) launched a movement that has grown amazingly over the last few decades: Agorism. This is the movement of peaceful revolution through counter-economics. Counter-economics is “the study...
Deutsche Bank Report: Digital Yuan Could Upset Global Power Balance, Plastic Will Die, Cash Survive
29.1.2020
A new report from Deutsche Bank Research, Digital Currencies: the Ultimate Hard Power Tool, predicts that cash payments will remain for decades, but the emergence of digital payments “will lead to the death of the plastic card.” The report, which is the third installment in a series...
Low Interest Rates Provide Precarious Protection Against Crisis, World Bank Warns
10.1.2020
The latest global debt wave is the largest in the past five decades, the World Bank has acknowledged in a new report. The international institution notes that previous waves of broad-based debt accumulation lead to widespread financial crises. Historically low interest rates this time might not...
What the web still is
21.11.2019
Being a pessimist is an easy thing to fall back on, and I’m trying to be better about it. As we close the year out, I thought it would be a good exercise to take stock of the state of the web and count our blessings.
Versatile
We don't use the internet to do just one thing. With more than...
Sorry, I Don’t Want to Pay for More Bombs: Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Funding War
23.7.2019
After nearly two decades of U.S.-led coalition bombs falling on the Middle East, peace in the region still has not been achieved. Now the United States is once again bolstering military forces, this time in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, taxpayers in multiple countries are being forced to pay for these...
20-Year-Old Cryptographic Puzzle Is Solved and Stamped in the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain
17.5.2019
A fiendishly tricky puzzle that has baffled cryptographers for two decades has been solved, and the proof preserved on the BCH and BTC blockchains. The feat, which was achieved 15 years earlier than the puzzle’s architects had anticipated, was commemorated with another premature reveal...