Month: April 2021
Bitcoin mining to become even more difficult as powerful new hardware joins the party Bitcoin
Bitcoin mining now demands more computational power than ever before, with mining difficulty on the network reaching an all-time high after the most recent recalibration. Mining difficulty, which ebbs and flows in line with shifts in the total hashrate, has now increased to 23.1 trillion, a sizable jump of circa…
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Daily Crunch: Apple Arcade expands with classic games
Apple adds classic titles to Apple Arcade, Microsoft experiences an outage and Coinbase is going public. This is your Daily Crunch for April 2, 2021. The big story: Apple Arcade expands with classic games Until now, Apple’s game subscription service was limited to exclusive new titles, but today it’s introducing…
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Google Pixel 6 rumor hints at a very Apple-like move Google Pixel 4a 5G
Long-standing rumors that the Google Pixel 6 would be powered by the Snapdragon 775 or 780G could be completely inaccurate. Instead, Google will reportedly follow in Apple’s and Samsung’s footsteps and develop its own CPU for its fall 2021 phone lineup. 9to5Google reports that the Pixel 6 – and presumably…
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SpaceX rocket debris lands on man’s farm in Washington
A pressure vessel from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage fell on a man’s farm in Washington State last week, leaving a “4-inch dent in the soil,” the local sheriff’s office said Friday. The black Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel, or COPV, was a remnant from the alien invasion-looking breakup of a…
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Extra Crunch roundup: Tonal EC-1, Deliveroo’s rocky IPO, is Substack really worth $650M?
For this morning’s column, Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. We’re seeing signs of an IPO market that may be cooling, but even so, “there are sufficient SPACs to take the entire recent Y Combinator…
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Google is limiting which apps can see everything else you have installed
Google will soon be more selective about which apps on the Play Store can see all of the other apps you have installed (via XDA-Developers). As Ars Technica points out, your list of installed apps, innocent as it seems, can communicate to developers personal traits like dating preferences and political…
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