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Aggressive Rate Hikes Still Necessary, Say Fed’s Evans and Kashkari
10.8.2022
July’s CPI Report Shows US Inflation Cooling — Critics Say ‘US Government’s Formula Understates the Actual Rise in Prices’
10.8.2022
After last June’s inflation report published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) reflected a 9.1% year-over-year increase, July’s CPI data has come in lower with a year-over-year increase of 8.5%. Economists polled by media publications...
Designing for Long-Form Articles
10.8.2022
Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience.
That’s …
Designing for Long-Form Articles...
A Growing Metaverse Poses Systemic Risks Regulators Need to Recognize, BOE Researchers Say
9.8.2022
If the metaverse grows, households might rely more on crypto and banks and financial institutions might have greater exposure, Bank of England researchers said
Zooming Images in a Grid Layout
8.8.2022
Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off.
Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to …
Zooming Images in a Grid Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Nonfungible tokens don't live on the blockchain, experts say
5.8.2022
Jonathan Victor noted that storing data off-chain doesn't mean it's centralized. It's still decentralized when it's done thoughtfully
Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS
4.8.2022
With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?
Well, …
Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS...
Diablo Devs Say Activision Back To Its Old ‘Union-Busting’ Tricks
4.8.2022
Nearly two months after Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick announced the company would finally begin bargaining its first union contract with the Game Workers Alliance at Raven Software, staff at Blizzard Albany, currently working on Diablo IV, say the publisher is back to trying to union-bust....
US Senate Bill Will Give CFTC Crypto Market Oversight – but Doesn't Say How Much
3.8.2022
The latest U.S. legislative effort to steer most crypto oversight into the hands of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has bipartisan support, though the new bill does little to answer the industry's top question: What makes a token a security or a commodity?
Solana’s Latest $6M Exploit Likely Tied to Slope Wallet, Devs Say
3.8.2022
The source of the exploit appears to be linked to Slope allegedly storing private keys as plain text on a centralized server
Want to Strike Terror in Crypto Markets in 2022? Just Say You’re Suspending Withdrawals
3.8.2022
Voyager and Celsius’s bankruptcies were preceded by announcements that they were barring customers from getting their money
Mental health support prime for decentralization, say academics
3.8.2022
A shortage of mental health services in the future could be solved with a Web3-powered mental health support network, suggests academics
Reports Say Beijing Attacking Taiwan Could Lead to ‘Far-Reaching Economic Consequences’
2.8.2022
While the global economy remains gloomy and the war in Ukraine continues, there’s been significant tension between China and Taiwan. The American representative from California, Nancy Pelosi, plans to visit Taiwan this week and White House officials say China is preparing to carry...
Regulation of Cryptocurrency in South Africa Should Not Scare Away Investors Experts Say
30.7.2022
Two experts have said they welcome South Africa’s planned regulation of cryptocurrency but warned this should not scare away investors. If the regulation is balanced between the need to protect investors and stimulating interest in crypto investment, this “could see funds stream into...
Cuban NFT artists say they face censorship within the crypto market
27.7.2022
“Blockchain is decentralised and doesn’t obey any governments, so no embargo affects us there”, NFT artist Gabriel Bianchini explained
Economists Say Fed Could Shrink Balance Sheet in 2023, Critics Insist Central Bank Hasn’t Reduced QE at All
26.7.2022
With inflation soaring in the U.S., economists from monetary policy analytics and forecasting firm LH Meyer say the U.S. Federal Reserve could stop shrinking its balance sheet earlier than expected. However, critics have said the U.S. central bank hasn’t really shrunk the Fed’s...
Kenyan Activists Say Cryptocurrencies Have the ‘Potential to Create New Ways for Young People to Earn’
24.7.2022
According to some Kenya-based activists, raising funds through cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFT) sales is not only faster but less costly as well. The activists added that digital currency also has the “potential to create new ways for young people to earn, spend, save and send...
Three Arrows Capital Founders Say Terra, GBTC Trades Led to Fund Blowup: Report
22.7.2022
“What we failed to realize was that Luna was capable of falling to effectively zero,” Three Arrows Capital co-founder Su Zhu said
Bitcoin price hits $24K, but analysts say on-chain data points to an ‘inevitable’ pullback
20.7.2022
The crypto market rally continues, but analysts are on the fence about whether BTC and ETH will slip back into range or push closer to higher-timeframe resistance levels
Bitcoin price holds $23.5K, leading bulls to say ‘it’s different this time’
20.7.2022
Traders expect BTC price to venture into the $27,000 to $32,000 range now that Bitcoin looks to secure a daily close above its current range