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Bitcoin Falls as Miners Sell, Institutions Watch Yellen

Bitcoin’s price dropped as much as 10% during early trading hours on Tuesday as bitcoin miners started selling a large amount of the cryptocurrency for the first time since October. There is not enough demand to absorb the additional coins on the market because institutions want an idea of how the new Biden Administration will […]

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Wyze Cam v3 Is Back in Stock, Along With a New Spotlight Accessory – Review Geek

Cameron Summerson The Wyze Cam v3 is an outstanding upgrade over its predecessor, thanks to improved sensors, night vision, and new outdoor protection. But if you missed out on the early sales, you were out of luck—until now. The $24 camera is back in stock, along with its new spotlight accessory. With the launch to […]

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Marathon Patent Group Provides One-Year Grant to World-Renowned Bitcoin Core Developer Jonas Schnelli

TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Rally All the Way to $11, Say Analysts At its January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady – they are near rock-bottom now, and to no one’s surprise, the Fed is keeping them there. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell may have fed some market pessimism when he […]

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Tim Cook condemns Facebook business model, says valuing engagement over privacy leads to ‘polarization’ and ‘violence’

Speaking at the EU data protection conference CPDP today, Tim Cook gave the opening keynote with his talk entitled “A path to empowering user choice and boosting user trust in advertising.â€� Cook covered Apple’s concerns about privacy and security in the technology industry, the hope it sees for change going forward, what it is doing […]

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Frances Coppola: Rethinking Bitcoin’s Scarcity

Among Bitcoin’s principal tenets is the idea that its baked-in scarcity makes it valuable. Bitcoin’s algorithmically determined rate of increase certainly makes it scarce when demand for the bitcoin cryptocurrency is rising, though not so much when it is falling. Furthermore, the fact that the algorithm provides for bitcoin’s supply to stop increasing about 120 […]

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Apple privacy exec talks iOS 14 changes and why Google is still the default search engine on iPhone

Following Apple CEO Tim Cook giving remarks at the EU data protection conference CPDP this morning, the company’s senior director of global privacy Jane Horvath also partook in a roundtable discussion. Horvath was asked specific questions about Apple’s use of Google as the default search engine on iPhones and more. Horvath explained during the discussion […]

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Apple Powers Up On Holiday IPhone Sales, Beating Wall Street’s Quarterly Forecasts – Deadline

Apple roared past Wall Street estimates for the holiday 2020 quarter, riding sales of new iPhones to total revenue of $111.4 billion, up 21% from the same period in 2019. Earnings per share in the fiscal first quarter, which ended December 26, came in at $1.68, up 35% from the year-ago frame. International sales accounted […]

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Is a $50,000 Bitcoin Forecast Too Modest?

After recently hitting all-time highs around $42,000, Bitcoin has tumbled. Following a one-week decline, the largest digital currency is now trading around $32,000. On that basis, a recently revealed $50,000 for the crypto asset looks appealing, though it’s modest compared to some other long-term projections, many of which go deep into six-figure territory. “Bitcoin’s price […]

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Palmer movie review: Justin Timberlakes new Apple film tugs at the heartstrings, half-heartedly

Palmer Director – Fisher Stevens Cast – Justin Timberlake, Ryder Allen, June Squibb, Alisha Wainwright, Juno Temple Justin Timberlake plays an ex-con on the path of redemption in Palmer, a new film on Apple TV+. Its ‘original film’ moniker, however, is highly disputable, in every sense. Not only is Palmer a by-the-numbers rehash of countless […]

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