The title could just as easily be Sweet Justice.
The Boston-headquartered publishing house Little, Brown has agreed to publish a new book about Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who famously settled a 2008 lawsuit against their former Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook’s earliest days, then made a much larger fortune with their settlement money by investing it in bitcoin.
According to the business magazine The Bookseller, the new opus, titled Bitcoin Billionaires, covers a lot of territory, from the brothers trying without success to raise a venture fund in Silicon Valley (no one wanted to upset Zuckerberg, is the claim) to first hearing about bitcoin on a jaunt to Ibiza, Spain. In fact, they reportedly wound up gathering up one percent of all the bitcoin in circulation during or around 2012.
Whether the book is made into a movie remains to be seen, but it seems as likely as not, given that its author is fellow Harvard grad Ben Mezrich, who also authored The Accidental Billionaires.
That book was eventually adapted by Aaron Sorkin into the Academy Award-winning movie about Facebook’s origins, The Social Network. In fact, when Mezrich began pitching his newest effort to publishing houses in the spring, the New York Post reported on “buzz that there’s already a movie deal in the works for the planned book.”
In the meantime, the Winklevoss brothers are receiving some fresh attention in Fortune, which included them in a new 40 Under 40 List that the outlet published this morning and which focuses on young movers and shakers at the “edge of finance and technology.” The reasoning behind their inclusion: the brothers, now 36, run one of the world’s most influential crypto funds with their New York and L.A.-based firm Winklevoss Capital. They also oversee the three-year-old digital asset exchange Gemini, which they founded in 2015.
Source: TechCrunch
Compact laptops can sometimes be hit-or-miss, but Dell has hit a home run with its fantastic XPS series, and we’re giving our readers a chance to score one for themselves. Enter for a chance to bring home a new Dell XPS 13 Windows 10 laptop.
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With rumors that Google will debut slimmer bezels on the Pixelbook 2 this fall, we have our own wishlist of five features that could make Google’s premium Chromebook hardware even better. And yes, that includes smaller bezels.
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DC movies, Glass, Star Trek: Discovery … here are all the important teasers and trailers out of San Diego Comic-Con 2018.
Source: CNET
Apple’s top-secret repair techniques may have just been spilled.
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The Philadelphia Fusion and London Spitfire face off in Overwatch’s first-ever league championship.
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Want to learn more about quantum computing and how to program in the Q# language? Microsoft just launched Quantum Katas, an open-source project that provides you with tutorials for learning at your own pace.
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The FISA court’s secrecy and complexity make it a perfect punching bag for Trump and his defenders.
Source: Wired
The convention has taken on a new subtext than it has in previous years—and that’s probably for the best.
Source: Wired
La ciencia lleva años buscando sin éxito la forma de producir felinos hipoalergénicos. Ahora, dos empresas van a intentarlo con edición genética pero ambas son conscientes de lo complicado del asunto. Editar el ADN es fácil, lo difícil es producir ejemplares reales
Source: MIT