The company reveals its discovery at a UK Parliament hearing held in the US. Representatives from Facebook and Google are also there.
Source: CNET
The blockchain is the buzziest thing on the internet these days and now MIT professor and godfather of the Human Genome Project George Church wants to put your genes on it.
His new startup Nebula Genomics plans to sequence your genome for under $1,000 (the current going rate of whole genome sequencing) and then add your data to the blockchain through the purchase of a “Nebula… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Litecoin, Dash, and Bitcoin Cash are all seeing increased acceptance among dark web drug sellers in an effort to circumvent some of the scaling issues caused by the growing interest in Bitcoin.
The post Litecoin and Dash are fast becoming the go-to currency of the dark web appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Twitch today is announcing an update to its Community Guidelines that aim to clarify how the company will enforce its existing anti-harassment and hateful content policies, while also ramping up the attention paid to those channels that breach its sexual content guidelines. In the case of the hateful content and anti-harassment guidelines, Twitch says that any hateful conduct will result in… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Earlier this week, iOS source code showed up on GitHub, raising concerns that hackers could find a way to comb the material for vulnerabilities. Apple has yet to confirm or deny the legitimacy of the posted material, but all signs point to it being the real deal — a fact seemingly confirmed by a DMCA takedown notice issued to the platform. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Scheduling tech conferences is hard, especially in May, when seemingly every company wants to hold a major event, including Google and Microsoft. Typically, Google I/O and Microsoft Build, the flagship developer conferences for both companies, happen within a week or two of each other in May. But not this year. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The world needs more emojis. Ever since emojis became a cultural phenomenon, tech companies have been working together to add new smileys, animals and objects. And the Unicode consortium just published this year’s list of new emojis. While many glaring omissions have been fixed in recent years, the Unicode consortium has accepted 157 new emojis. But who are these people who get to… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
It might just buy exclusive rights to image it doesn’t want out there.
Source: Wired
South Korean Olympics officials are dealing with an outbreak of norovirus among security personnel. If it spread to athletes, it could be very, very bad.
Source: Wired
Comcast is inventing more than 50 “virtual channels” that string video together like a playlist, an experiment it may roll out to all kinds of programming.
Source: CNET