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IGN Staff Criticizes Management's Decision To Pull Article Supporting Palestinian Aid Groups
18.5.2021
Today, the IGN editorial staff published an open letter decrying Sunday’s removal of an IGN article and its associated tweet that linked to charities supporting Palestinian victims of recent Israeli violence.Read more
IGN Takes Down Article And Tweet Sharing Palestinian Aid Groups
16.5.2021
Following the most recent set of violent military strikes by the Israel Defense Forces that have leveled entire buildings in Gaza and left over 180 Palestinians dead, IGN yesterday posted an article linking to a variety of Palestinian charities and even gave a Palestinian flag prominence in...
South Korea: Interest in Crypto Equal Between Younger and Older Age Groups
14.5.2021
The authors of a detailed report on the profile of crypto investors in South Korea have concluded that Crypto Fever 2.0 has been marked by a spike in interest among older age groups – with those in their 40s and 50s expressing a similar amount of interest in tokens as the ever-crypto-keen 20-39...
Young Koreans Less Keen on Crypto Taxation Than Older Generations, Poll Finds
4.5.2021
Opponents of the government’s plan to tax gains from cryptocurrency trading outnumber supporters among South Koreans in their 20s, a new survey shows. Representatives of other age groups are more open to the proposed taxation of investments in virtual assets. Nearly Half of Young Koreans...
Marlton Applauds Decision to Increase Digital Currency Group’s Authorized Purchase of GBTC Shares to $750 Million
4.5.2021
Investment management firm, Marlton, has applauded the recent decision to authorize the purchase by Digital Currency Group (DCG) of up to a total of $750 million worth of shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). This latest action follows Marlton’s recent call for DCG and the Grayscale board...
UBS Chief Economist Says ‘Bitcoin Is Denied to Minority Groups Who Have Reduced Online Access’
2.5.2021
A chief economist at UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, sees a number of problems with bitcoin. In attempting to answer the question of whether the cryptocurrency defies the zeitgeist, he claims that “bitcoin is denied to those minority groups who have reduced online access.”...
Regular Expression Match Groups
26.4.2021
Regular expressions are incredibly powerful but can be difficult to maintain. They’re a skill you learn on the job and, when the suits walk by, make you look incredibly smart if you have a few up on your screen. How can we solve the maintainability problem? With a match groups, as Addy Osmani...
There Is No After
14.4.2021
Shortly before Christmas last year, I sent a message to Jeff Sharlet, a writer I don’t know, thanking him for memorializing the dead. It was a Sunday night, past 2 a.m., and though I can’t remember the specific thing keeping me awake I know its basic contours. Most every feeling I’ve had this year...
Tattoos Removed For Anime's Chinese Release
12.4.2021
In the anime The Way of the Househusband, the main character, former yakuza boss Tatsu, is covered in tattoos. But for Chinese release, all that ink has been removed.Read more
Genshin Impact Replaces Famed Idol Group's Iconic Signs In Akihabara
7.4.2021
If you’ve been to Tokyo’s Akihabara in the past decade, you’ve seen large signs for pop group AKB48 on the side of the Don Quijote building. They have been replaced.Read more
Crypto lobby groups are gaining traction in Washington as the threat of regulatory bottleneck looms
6.4.2021
The blockchain industry is looking to shed the negative association between digital assets and crime as the threat of additional regulatory oversight looms
It’s always the stacking context.
22.3.2021
In “What the heck, z-index??,” Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you’ve got an element in a layer group A in Photoshop that …
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Lumines: Electronic Symphony Was Almost Daft Punk Lumines
22.2.2021
Daft Punk, the famed French electronic music duo formed in 1993, has broken up. While many of their fans are obviously upset by the news, Q Entertainment producer (and ex-game journalist) James Mielke took the opportunity to share his own fond memories of the musicians, explaining that they were...
I Ate The Giant Game Controller Gummy, And I Felt Like I Was Going To Die
17.2.2021
Dear friends, if you are reading this post, it means I have died. Or I have consumed a giant video game controller-shaped gummy and lived—arguably a worse fate.Read more
Banning Disruptive Online Groups Is A game of Whac-a-Mole
13.2.2021
Andrea Baronchelli, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, City, University of London.
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From Washington DC to Wall Street, 2021 has already seen online groups causing major organised offline disruption. Some of it has been in violation of national laws, some in violation...
Free TON and Dune Network to Merge Following Successful Vote, Free TON Gains Top Researchers
9.2.2021
Free TON is a community driven blockchain network with a focus on decentralized governance based on the open-source TON project which was previously developed by Telegram. Dune Network is a platform for distributed applications over a blockchain, focused on safety and security. The two groups will...
AdGram Helps Brands Leverage Cryptocurrencies in the Advertising Market
3.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The AdGram service was founded a year ago and is currently the largest advertising exchange in Telegram. AdGram helps brands place large advertising volumes in channels and groups quickly and efficiently. Channels and groups benefit from expansion of their audience, it is easy...
XRP Posted Biggest Single-Day Gain in 3 Years in a Coordinated Buying Attack
31.1.2021
"Traditional Crypto-Pump groups are being copied and legitimized by WallStreetBets," Jehan Chu, co-founder and managing partner at Kenetic Capital, told CoinDesk
French Programmer Sent Bitcoin Donations to Far-Right Activists Who Participated in the US Capitol Riots
16.1.2021
A crypto forensic analysis reveals that a French donor sent over $500,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC) to far-right activists in the United States. The half-million dollars went to the groups that took part in the pro-Trump riots in the U.S. Capitol. Alt-Right Personalities and Websites Are Included...
Alt-Right Groups Received $500K in BTC Month Before Capitol Riot: Chainalysis
14.1.2021
Chainalysis declined to directly link the donation to the Jan. 6 storming but said the timing "warrants suspicion."