Brave Software on Thursday released a new version of its browser that lets you donate money directly to YouTube stars. The free browser blocks ads by default but lets you distribute money anonymously to websites each month, giving more money to the websites you visit more often and letting you “pin” favorites you always want …
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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, a new web browser challenging bigger rivals like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, wants to take privacy on the internet to the next level. Like all other browsers, Brave includes a “private browsing” option that leaves no traces of online activity on your computer and makes websites think you’ve never visited before. But the startup is working on adding …
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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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A bold plan to rid the web of obnoxious advertising just came one step closer to reality. Browser maker Brave said Monday that it has raised a seed round of $4.5 million, money that will go toward its browser and its technology for replacing conventional web ads with its own. The investors are Founders Fund, the high-profile venture capitalist firm …
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Browser maker Brave Software wants to rid the Web of the worst parts of online advertising, but the biggest newspapers in the US have launched an attack against the “illegal” plan. Lawyers from The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other members of the Newspaper Association of America published a letter Thursday that threatens legal action against …
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Despite troubles convincing Google that its app is legit, Brave Software’s browser is now available to anyone who is sick of annoying mobile ads. Apple added Brave for iPhones and iPads to its app store on Friday, but Google rejected the app twice before publishing Brave for Android devices in the Google Play app store Tuesday night. Google’s opposition, which …
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