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Gordon Hall, Rockstar Leeds Founder, Dies At 51
11.3.2021
Gordon Hall, one of the founders of Rockstar Leeds, has died, Game Industry reports. He was 51. Read more
Woman Who Used Gorilla Glue Spray to Style Her Hair Gives Update on Her Condition, Says Removal Could Take 20 Hours
8.2.2021
Stiff where? Still stiff here. Much like the relationship between Black women and our hair, the situation involving our good sis Tessica Brown (aka Gorilla Glue Girl, as she’s been unofficially dubbed on social media) and her horrendous hair catastrophe that went viral last week has also increased...
Report Claims Harvard, Yale, and Brown University Endowments Have Been Discreetly Buying Bitcoin
26.1.2021
According to sources familiar with the matter, a number of Ivy League universities including the University of Michigan, Brown, Yale, and Harvard endowments have been discreetly purchasing cryptocurrencies. The prominent schools have been reportedly leveraging exchanges like Coinbase and other...
Harvard, Yale, Brown Endowments Have Been Buying Bitcoin for at Least a Year: Sources
25.1.2021
University endowments that backed blockchain VCs in 2018 have started buying crypto directly from Coinbase
Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
11.1.2021
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan
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Josh Brown on Bitcoin’s ‘Respectability Rally’ and Why We’ll See Dow 100,000 in Our Lifetime
2.12.2020
One of finance’s most colorful personalities joins NLW to discuss how advisers spend their money, Robinhood traders, bitcoin and more
S2F Price Model Suggests Bitcoin Price Hits $100K – Author Claims Model Is Perfectly on Track
6.8.2020
The author of the controversial bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) price model said that at current prices the S2F model is “perfectly on track.” S2F shows the price could hit around $30,000 by the year’s end and by August 2021 prices could be $100,000 per bitcoin. The crypto asset...
US Senators Float Bill Requiring Congressional Watchdog Study Crypto’s Role in Trafficking
1.7.2020
Top members of the Senate Banking Committee plan to introduce legislation that would direct the congressional watchdog to study virtual currency’s role in drug and human trafficking
The Overton Window Opens for a Digital Dollar
25.3.2020
As the federal government looks for ways to distribute coronavirus aid, support for a digital dollar is gaining steam in Washington D.C
Fed Officials Ponder Funding Hedge Funds and Private Brokers Directly
15.1.2020
On January 13, the New York Federal Reserve gave $60.7 billion to eligible private financial institutions by leveraging U.S. Treasurys and agency securities. With all the stimulus given to financial institutions since September, it hasn’t relieved the stress of economic uncertainty. Now...
US Lawmakers Call on Communications Regulator to Tackle SIM-Swapping Crime
10.1.2020
Democrat lawmakers are demanding that the FCC takes action to tackle the rise in SIM swapping attacks
PODCAST: Josh Brown on Why Bitcoin Is Like the 1800s Railroad Boom
8.11.2019
On this episode of Bitcoin Macro: "In the 1800s we had a bubble in railroads, and almost every one of them went bankrupt."
Bitmain Aims to Build a 300MW Texas Mining Farm
23.10.2019
The Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies and DMG Blockchain Solutions announced the launch of a 25MW mining facility in Rockdale, Texas. The new mine aims to bolster Bitmain’s international expansion which will soon expand to 50MW of processing power and then extend the operation’s...
Halt Libra? US Lawmakers Call for Hearings on Facebook’s Crypto
18.6.2019
House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters asked Facebook to halt development of its Libra crypto until hearings can be held
Deploying a Client-Side Rendered create-react-app to Microsoft Azure
10.5.2019
Deploying a React app to Microsoft Azure is simple. Except that... it isn’t. The devil is in the details. If you're looking to deploy a create-react-app — or a similar style front-end JavaScript framework that requires pushState-based routing — to Microsoft Azure, I believe this article will serve...
Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Alt Text on Images
1.2.2019
Web developers and content editors alike often forget or ignore one of the most important parts of making a website accessible and SEO performant: image alt text. You know, that seemingly small image attribute that describes an image:
<img src="/cute/sloth/image.jpg" alt="A brown baby sloth...