The 42-year-old says he first invested $40,000 in Bitcoin in 2017, and quickly made his money back as the value of the coins rose on the open market. He cashed out and got his initial money back, but then watched …
Clubhouse got a little less creepy thanks to a recent update
Clubhouse, the invite-only conversation app that has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity during the pandemic, has gotten a privacy-friendly update. Following numerous complaints about the app’s aggressive push to access its users’ contacts, Clubhouse now lets users invite their …
“Please someone help me.” FaceTime users bombarded with group call spam
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple support forum earlier this month. “It has been non-stop, over 300 numbers blocked so far. My 3 year old daughter has been accidentally answering them and going on video without a t-shirt on.” Read 8 …
Why European vaccine suspensions could have unintended consequences
Meanwhile, the health-care regulator in Britain—which has delivered 11 million shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine so far, many more than any other country—says there’s no evidence that this vaccine presents a heightened health risk. But conflicting messages about how serious …
Headless In Practice
Headless architecture has become widely known as an emerging technology strategy that many merchants are considering. Advantages of this architecture are mostly promoted as a means of providing businesses with more choices for integrating best-of-breed solutions, superior site performance, and …
Exploring Shopware: ID, Account, & Other Basic Steps
This article continues our Shopware exploration. This time, we’ve come a little bit closer to the platform’s admin and storefront functionalities. In the following material, you will learn what a Shopware account is and how to create it. Note that it is …
Microsoft Mesh: Will it change how we collaborate?
Mixed-reality platform, Microsoft Mesh, will allow people to join and share the same virtual experience wherever they are in the world. The system was announced at the company’s Ignite digital conference, earlier this month. While augmented reality overlays virtual objects …
Stripe closes $600M round at a $95B valuation
On the heels of reports that Stripe was raising yet more money, the payments giant has now confirmed the details. The company has closed in on another $600 million, at a valuation of $95 billion. Stripe said it will use …
Should there be some law against raising three times in one year?
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