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  • What Are ICOs and Why Are They Getting Banned in China? 

    GIF Image: OpenGameArt.com Over the weekend, China banned initial coin offerings (ICO) and briefly paused the seemingly unstoppable price increase of bitcoin. But the cryptocurrency has already bounced back. With the likes of Paris Hilton, Kim Dotcom, and John McAfee all jumping into the ICO world in one way or another, it seems worth asking…

  • I’m Still Trying to Understand Why I Let This Camera Dangle Between My Boobs

    FrontRow Price $400 What is it? A camera you wear as a necklace. Like The hardware is nice. No Like The camera is bad. Companies are also banking on us wanting to strap on silly looking hardware to capture those moments—you know, instead of the phone that’s already on my person at all times. It’s…

  • Apple iPhone Day 2017 Cheat Sheet: What to Expect

    Image: Apple Apple’s iPhone 8 event is coming up fast, and we’re expecting Tim Cook and company to announce far more than new handsets. Here’s a quick primer. The event kicks off at 1PM ET/10AM PT on Tuesday September 12 at the brand new Steve Jobs Theater. You can watch it live on Apple’s website,…

  • Senator Calls on Facebook to Release Political Ads Russians Spent $100K On

    Photo: Getty Social media companies need to start being more transparent about their roles in the U.S. presidential election, Sen. Mark Warner told reporters today. Twitter will need to explain to Congress how its platform was used by Russian trolls attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election, and Facebook ought to make political ads purchased…

  • Pluto’s Features Just Got Some Seriously Metal Names From Mythology

    Image: IAU Whoever came up with these names clearly did their homework. A group of surface depressions has been named Djanggawul Fossae, which the IAU described as “three ancestral beings in indigenous Australian mythology who traveled between the island of the dead and Australia, creating the landscape and filling it with vegetation.” Other regions are…

  • Drug Maker Faked Cancer Patients to Sell Addictive Opioids, Congressional Report Finds

    Photo: AP On Wednesday, Senator Claire McCaskill released a report on the findings of a congressional investigation into the practices of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics. The jaw-dropping allegations detail the process in which agents systematically convinced insurers to pay for a highly-addictive opioid cancer pain drug for patients who didn’t have cancer. Why the FDA…

  • Evolution Glitch Brought the Poor Wooly Rhino Neck Ribs and Extinction

    Wooly Rhino skeleton (Image: Didier Descouens/Wikimedia Commons) Normally, we think of evolution as a good thing for a species. Humans, we evolved to walk on two legs and talk and stuff. Bacteria evolve to overcome whatever new antibiotic we try to throw at them. But it appears that, for wooly rhinos, evolution decided “lol, no.”…

  • Top Republicans want DACA-compromise

    WASHINGTON – The Republican chairman of the U.s. House of Representatives wants to use the opposition are going to talk about migration. Paul Ryan told The New York Times to hope that his party and the Democrats to reach such agreement. Ryan responded to a question about the so-called DACA program, which president Trump wants…

  • UN chief upset devastation ‘Irma’

    NEW YORK – Secretary-general António Guterres of the United Nations Thursday stripped on the victims and the immense damage that the hurricane Irma in the Caribbean has caused. In a New York statement issued expressed Guterres his sympathy with the inhabitants and governments of the affected countries and areas. He praised the authorities, who were…

  • Three dead by Irma on Puerto Rico

    SAN JUAN – On the island of Puerto Rico are three people to life come through the hurricane Irma. Reports that governor Ricard Rossello of the American island in the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea. Among the victims is a bedridden 79-year-old woman to a refuge was established. The other two victims were a…