Month: June 2022
Saving sites: Pocket’s bookmarking app and its alternatives
It’s hard to keep up with all the interesting, important, or just plain fun things you come across on the web. You may come across something you just don’t have time to read right now or want to save because it will come in handy later. But, as most of…
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How to buy a used car online
Despite what Dunkin’ Donuts would have you believe, America runs on gasoline. We are a nation of drivers with a transit infrastructure geared overwhelmingly towards automobile travel (with fewer than one percent of those on US roads today being of the electric variety). We’re awash in cars (276 million were…
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BlockFi and Crypto.com lay off hundreds of staff as coins slump
BlockFi, a platform for trading and lending cryptocurrency, announced via a blog post on Monday that it’s laying off 20 percent of its 850 employees — around 170 to 200 people. CEO Zac Prince said in a Twitter thread that the layoffs can be traced to a “dramatic shift in…
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Google Cloud developer uses AI to calculate 100 trillion digits of pi
Audio player loading… The long and chequered lifespan of mathematical icon pi has been extended even further thanks to Google Cloud. Google Developer Advocate, Emma Haruka Iwao, successfully calculated pi to 100 trillion digits using the company’s cloud platform. What’s even more striking it that this is the second time…
Read MoreAmazon.com is having some problems right now
For one reason or another, the internet’s biggest retailer has a website that’s not working correctly for some people. Many Amazon.com pages are either not loading at all, displaying error messages, or loading slowly with missing information. Checking with other Verge staffers, some people are getting error messages or partially…
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Street Fighter 6’s modern controls made me OK at Street Fighter
Thank you, Street Fighter 6. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t embarrassed to play a fighting game in front of strangers on the show floor of a video game convention, and it was all because of the updated control scheme in Street Fighter 6. The modern control…
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