Image: Gizmodo/Screenshot Last weekend, a user calling themselves yellows8, posted an intriguing discovery to SwitchBrew.org, a site dedicated to finding ways to hack the Nintendo Switch. Hidden on every Switch console is a mysterious game called Flog, which turns out…
Bitcoin has been making a lot of news lately. The cryptocurrency shot up in value by over 200% in 2017, making many people fear that the market is in a bubble. Last week, China decided to close its bitcoin exchanges, which caused investors around…
The unpredictable nature of super-intelligent, self-improving machines lends itself quite nicely to the dramatic storylines of movies and books. It’s a science fiction writer’s dream – as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins warns: if AI becomes smart enough to create more…
John Kelly recently played the debut of a new instrument, the KellyCaster. But this musician, this instrument, are significant for more than just novelty. It’s more than likely that you haven’t heard of John Kelly. So before talking about the…
Apple’s newest mobile operating system, iOS 11, comes out today, and Steve Jobs probably would’ve been super pissed if he were still alive. HackerNoon’s Ryan Lau has posted a comprehensive breakdown that calls attention to all the ways iOS 11’s…
Perhaps in an attempt to refute recurring allegations that it has traditionally focused on exposing only US state secrets, if not being an outright covert and subversive Moscow front, today Wikileaks released a new cache of documents which it claims…
Today’s teenagers don’t seem to care much about hitting the open road, scoring a six-pack with a fake ID, or asking their peers out on dates. According to a new study from psychologists Jean Twenge and Heejung Park, teenagers instead…
BitTorrent developer Bram Cohen has published a new white paper that envisions an eco-friendly alternative to bitcoin’s energy-intensive proof-of-work computational process. Dubbed “proof-of-space,” the method relies on disk space rather than computational power as the main resource for mining (the…
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