Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute You know the old motto: Nobody can hear you screaming in space. Unfortunately, being trapped in our rapidly heated rock, we can hear everyone screaming very well, especially those ironically howling about the specifics of space. Checked in at our degraded friend Pluto, it was certainly…
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To give the experts who bring you insights daily based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives a break during this holiday season (for some people), we are reposting the most popular posts from last 5 years. Daily Fintech’s most popular post from 2017 was Polychain Capital: A hedge fund investing at the Protocol…
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As a researcher at Harvard, Shruthi Mahalingaiah has been using Apple watches to track the ovulation cycles of 70,000 women for more than two years in an unprecedentedly large study. But as a doctor, she complains that she is stuck with “dinosaur technology”. The iPhone maker touts the Apple Watch as the “ultimate device for…
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Huawei sounded a cautiously optimistic note on its future as the slide in the Chinese technology group’s business under US sanctions started to slow. Total revenue for 2021 was expected to hit Rmb634bn ($99.5bn), the company said on Friday. That represented a 29 per cent drop compared with 2020, but a slight improvement on the…
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Sebastian Kurz has pivoted from politics to tech by taking up a position at Peter Thiel’s California-based investment company after the former Austrian leader quit in October following allegations of corruption at the heart of his government. The 35-year-old former chancellor will become a “global strategist” for the rightwing billionaire’s business, Thiel Capital, said one…
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Less than four years ago, when Apple’s stock market value hit $1tn, it felt like a high point for tech stocks. So who would have thought that, in the dying days of 2021, the company that redefined consumer technology would already be on the brink of topping $3tn? This will go down as a historic…
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The original trio from the Wizarding franchise, Harry Potter, are expected to return to the silver screen next New Years Day in the 20th anniversary special when they return to Hogwarts. In the reunion special, two of the movie’s lead actors, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, spoke about how they were on the verge…
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The tragedy today hit millions of houses around the world, as one of the most popular online games in the world was offline several hours. Fortnite, which has more than 350 million players worldwide, was offline for several hours due to an unknown technical issue. The time for parents, whose play-obsessed offspring is at…
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Tumblr users looking to view adult content on the platform must avoid the iOS app as the company says it hides “sensitive content” so as not to violate Apple’s sensitivities. “In order to remain available in the Apple App Store,” says Tumblr, “we need to expand the definition of sensitive content and access to it…
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Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel in 2011 (Image via Getty Images/Buda Mendes) It’s safe to say that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will not be returning to the Fast and Furious franchise. In a new interview with CNN released on Wednesday, December 29, the young rock actor explicitly stated that he was not interested in repeating…
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