Month: February 2022
Apps For Couples Are Going Viral On TikTok, And It Indicates A New Age For Romance
COVID has often meant that for young people, in-person dates and gatherings have often not been possible, and the time spent indoors has changed how they view romance. Having a partner during a pandemic has suddenly become a far better option than being single — especially if it’s during the…
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GoFundMe Has Removed The Viral Canadian Trucker Protest Campaign For Violating Its Rules On Violence
The campaign started last January in response to the Canadian government’s vaccine mandates for truckers crossing into the country. It quickly evolved into a global movement against what protesters describe as authoritarian governments taking away their freedoms. Some protesters have been accused of harassing people at a homeless shelter, desecrating…
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A built-in alarm is a crucial home security cam feature. So why do so few have it?
Audio player loading… The best home security cameras are a great way to check that your property is safe and secure when you’re not around. They connect to your home Wi-Fi network and through a smartphone app let you see, and with the help of a microphone and speaker, speak…
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Who’s Behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, The Secretive NFT Brand? These Guys, For Starters.
Bored Ape Yacht Club, BuzzFeed News In late January, Paris Hilton appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show. In a segment that was widely mocked for its boosterism, Hilton and host Jimmy Fallon each pulled out printouts of their “Bored Apes” — digital images from a collection of 10,000…
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Quantum computers may be able to break Bitcoin sooner than you think
Audio player loading… Advances over the next decade could pave the way for quantum computers powerful enough to crack Bitcoin encryption, new research suggests. Scientists from the University of Sussex in the UK estimate that quantum systems with 13 million qubits would be sufficient to break the cryptographic algorithm (SHA-256)…
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Episodes of Joe Rogan’s show are disappearing from Spotify
Around 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast mysteriously disappeared from Spotify on Friday, as spotted by JREMissing.com, a web tool that tracks missing episodes. The show (and Spotify’s relationship to it) have faced heavy criticism over the past few weeks, but there’s no clear connection between that and the missing…
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