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In its early stages, ICOs were popularly perceived as a convenient means for small startups and beginner companies to generate funds. This opinion was largely due to the absence of the usual restrictions and rigorous processes that are involved in traditional capitalization procedures for business ventures. The beginning of ICOs Ethereum was the first crypto coin to use an Initial Coin Offering for their crowd funding. The Ethereum ICO happened from 20th July to 2nd September 2014 for a total of 42 days....

The agreement came after companies failed to agree on a common solution. The European Commission had pushed for a single mobile charging port more than a decade ago. The new rule of imposing a common charging port is a part of a broader EU effort to make products in the EU more sustainable, reduce electronic waste, and make consumers’ lives easier. By Autumn 2024, all new handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, handheld videogame consoles, headphones, headsets, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, and earbuds that are rechargeable via a wired cable will have to be equipped with a USB-C charging port, regardless of their manufacturer....

Who are Everex? Everex are a young and innovative technology company specializing in the world of microfinance. Their platform is powered by Ethereum and their goal is to make finance accessible to citizens the world over. Everex developed one of the first ever mobile Ethereum wallets. The World with Everex The key theme of Everex is financial inclusion. Access to microfinance is crucial for developing countries. The rates that seem quite high by Western standards are outright prohibitive for third world inhabitants....

EVGA X99 FTW K will provide support for Intel’s Broadwell-E lineup of processors, out of which Intel Core i7-6950X will be a part of. The aforementioned chip is going to be the first ever CPU developed by Intel for consumers to feature 10 cores. The great thing about these motherboards is that you will not have to go through the messy process of updating your motherboard’s BIOS because these boards will already provide support for these chips....

ExtraTorrent shuts down permanently; Top 3 alternatives Migration of the masses A few days after the news broke, things have begun to settle with the users of ExtraTorrent migrating over to other sites with The Pirate Bay, Torrentz2 and RARBG reporting a significant increase in their users. What has also been confirmed – definitely allaying a lot of people’s fears – is that many prominent uploaders and uploader groups were not going down with the site....

The police officials from Lincoln responded to a robbery call late Saturday night after a man said he attempted to buy an iPhone offered through a Facebook ad. What happened next is out of a con movie. The 20 year old man responded to the ad and went to meet the seller at a Taco John’s about 11 p.m. Saturday. The seller wanted $300 for the phone which the buyer agreed....

The detailed report by WSJ highlights the relation shared between Facebook-Apple with both the companies even once being on the same side while underscoring the competitive threat posed by Google’s Android operating system to both the companies. During an interview in 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook had even referred to Facebook as a ‘partner’. However, things started taking a different turn when Apple in 2014 introduced stringent ways that would make it harder for Facebook to track usage and target ads to users....

Confirming the rulings of two lower courts, Germany’s highest court has declared Facebook’s “friend-finder” feature as illegal, labelling it an unacceptable and intrusive form of advertising. The feature accesses users’ email address books and sends invitations to contacts who are not yet signed up to Facebook. The court concluded this was a deceptive marketing practice, confirming decisions by two lower courts in Berlin in 2012 and 2014, which had found that Facebook had violated German laws on data protection and unfair trade practices....

Facebook again tops in the AVG report on top worst storage, data consuming and battery draining Android AppsTips for increasing Android performance As with earlier years, Facebook Android App tops the list of Apps which eat into everything from performance, data storage to battery draining. It is joined by Spotify and Instagram to be overall performance hoggers on Android. This time it seems like Samsung’s “bloatware” still can’t shake its resource cravings, particularly in the battery draining category....

The seriousness of the issue can be judged by the fact that Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda terrorists could potentially also use Facebook to buy an anti-aircraft rocket launcher capable of blowing a passenger jet out of the sky. The report says that one of the weapons for sale is a Manpads, or man-portable air defence systems, a type of missile launcher capable of bringing down both civilian and military jets....

The new feature called Wi-Fi Discovery is being tested and is designed to highlight places where Facebook users can access free and public Wi-Fi places. The testing is currently going in select countries and should be released world over by next month. “To help people stay connected to the friends and experiences they care about, we are rolling out a new feature that surfaces open Wi-Fi networks associated with nearby places,” a Facebook spokesperson told VentureBeat....

Now your Linux experience on Windows 10 is bound to get a further refill with OpenSuse Linux distro. OpenSUSE has given the users an option to run openSUSE inside your Windows 10 installation. This way, you can run most openSUSE Apps within Windows 10 without having to install the Operating System separately like Ubuntu with Bash. In a blog post, Sr. Product Manager – SUSE Linux Enterprise at SUSE, Hannes Kühnemund has published a detailed tutorial on how to install a SUSE Linux distribution on Windows 10 PC/laptops....

This is the new age of entertainment consumption. All this media now at our disposal, comes with a new set of problems. How do I make sure that my growing collections of DVDs are available to me anytime and on every device? DVDs are designed to be compatible with a few niche devices like DVD players, home entertainment systems, personal computers, and gaming consoles. But what if you want to play that latest Marvel movie on your iPad?...

Game of Thrones Season 7 seems to be at the mercy of hackers. As promised by the hackers, they have leaked the GoT S07E05 called ‘Eastwatch.‘ HBO the maker of the series is facing a real threat as the hackers have promised to release all the remaining episodes of GoT Season 7. Hackers today leaked the Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5 Eastwatch. This is in continuation to the earlier leak of Episode 4, Spoils of War....

While Microsoft has promised that GitHub will continue to operate independently and will remain an open platform, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that it would increase its focus on serving software developers via cloud services irrespective of whether they are coding for Microsoft Windows or not. At the time when Microsoft was busy announcing its acquisition, a developer named Alexander Prokhorov, who is also known on GitHub under the name Athari, made a mock-up of a GitHub page in the Windows 95 style and posted it on Twitter on June 4....

The security compromise was detected by a Google Chrome security engineer named Adrienne Porter Felt who discovered this during a flight she took while using the inflight service provided by Gogo Inflight Internet. She noticed this while connecting to Google sites and looking at the issuer of the SSL certificate. The SSL certificate was being issued by Gogo and not Google. This serious man-in-the-middle attack is likely to have effected all user sessions that Gogo Inflight Internet provide service for including Aeromexico, American Airlines, Air Canada, Japan Airlines and Virgin Atlantic, possibly many others....

Firefox and Chrome users are again barred from accessing the popular torrents site again. Instead, they see an ominous warning screen in RED. Starting a few hours ago Chrome and Firefox began blocking user access to Kickass Torrents (KAT) again. Kickass visitors on Chrome are notified that “Attackers on kat.cr might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your browsing experience (for example, by changing your homepage or showing extra ads on sites you visit)....

Speaking to Charlie Rose at the TED conference, Page said he wants his money going to capitalists like Musk with big ideas for changing the world, according to a report at Wired. Page thinks that Musk’s vision of bringing next generation of technology like going to Mars as “to back up humanity” is inspired. He said, “That’s a company, and that’s philanthropical.” Page’s idea of donating his billions to Musk for going to Mars found a backer in Jim Scheinman of Maven Technologies....

The IT giant introduced the reward last year and is yet to have any successful submissions, according to Google’s Nathan Parker and Tim Willis. “That said, great research deserves great awards, so we’re putting up a standing six-figure sum, available all year round with no quotas and no maximum reward pool,” said the pair in a blog post on Monday US time. The company is also extending the reward program to include anyone that can bypass Chrome’s safe browsing download protection features....