It’s almost impossible to visualize a quintillion. Written out, it looks like this: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. Perhaps it’s best to think of it as one billion billion. In February, the Canadian Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms announced that its five warehouses of mining computers crossed the landmark of collectively making one quintillion Bitcoin verification calculations per second. […]
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The Vancouver company behind NBA Top Shot is getting some major support from investors that include basketball legend Michael Jordan and other star athletes. Dapper Labs is receiving more than US$305 million in funding from investors that include Jordan and current NBA stars such as Kevin Durant, Kyle Lowry and Klay Thompson. 2:37 What […]
When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the registration line on their first day of graduate school at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world. Using a computer required a set of esoteric skills typically reserved for trained engineers and mathematicians. But today, thanks in part to […]
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. There’s a lot riding on the outcome of a vote on whether to form a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. My colleague Karen Weise has described it as the most significant unionization effort in […]
Meet the private browsers Firefox Focus, DuckDuckGo and Brave are all similar, but with some important differences. Firefox Focus, available only for mobile devices like iPhones and Android smartphones, is bare-bones. You punch in a web address and, when done browsing, hit the trash icon to erase the session. Quitting the app automatically purges the […]
Cristin Milioti has claimed a curiously specific character niche: woman escaping from twisted sci-fi trap. In the “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister,” she was programmed into a simulation by her creepy boss. In last year’s “Palm Springs,” she and Andy Samberg puzzled out how to break free of a time loop that stuck them in […]
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Today there is yet another congressional hearing about an internet law that is older than Google: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Please don’t stop reading. Odds are the law won’t change. But it’s still worth […]
Here’s what you need to know: The I.R.S. said it had begun a “multi-step process” to check the eligibility for beneficiaries of stimulus payments and calculate their payments.Credit…Eric Gay/Associated Press Some of the most vulnerable Americans still haven’t gotten their stimulus checks, but millions of them who receive federal benefits should get their payments next […]
Market size matters, but even small changes have an outsize ripple effect. Source link