On this podcast, we talk about: Google Chrome’s new ad-blocking tools. The annoyance of using bitcoin as digital cash for buying goods and services. Now playing: Watch this: Google is cracking down on annoying online ads (The 3:59,… 4:30 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought …
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Blockchain promises to revolutionize all sorts of businesses, and cryptocurrencies could help rewrite the rules of finance. But today, let’s focus on how they let you discover that Elon Musk is worth more than Emma Watson for collectors of a sort of digital baseball card. A group of San Francisco-area programmers launched a site, unveiled Thursday, called Crypto Celebrities that …
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You’re not the only one who dreams of cashing in on cryptocurrency mania. Samsung’s right there with you. In its fourth-quarter earnings report Wednesday, the consumer-electronics purveyor and world’s largest chipmaker by revenue said it expects its foundry business to get a bump-up from “growing demand for cryptocurrency mining chips.” It also confirmed, separately, that it’s making such chips. “Samsung’s …
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Mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency requires powerful computers with powerful graphics hardware. At a certain point, it’s literally about getting more back than it costs you in electricity and other expenses to run a mining machine. PC maker Asus has a new computer motherboard that aims to maximise the number of GPUs, or graphics cards, per computer. The new B250 …
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Brave Software has signed a publishing partnership the browser maker hopes ultimately will help rid the web of privacy-invading advertisements. Brave, the startup led by Mozilla co-founder and JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich, announced the deal Tuesday with CoinDesk, a website with news and information about the Bitcoin digital currency. Under the first phase of the deal, Coindesk has begun promoting …
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