Analogue’s $190 Mega Sg is a treat for Sega fans who saved their cartridges

Over the past couple of years, Seattle-based Analogue has been warming retro gamers’ hearts with its systems that faithfully run 8-bit and 16-bit NES cartridges with high-resolution audio and video output. The company then set its sights on Sega’s family of consoles, and recently released the delightful Mega Sg. This handsome little box plays your 8-bit and 16-bit Mega Drive cartridges, and comes with an adaptor to support a Sega CD connector. With that, you’re all set to take another crack at your favorite titles for Sega’s machines – of which there are more than 2,180 in existence. I spent…

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10 things we learned from the Democratic candidates’ Instagrams

In a crowded pool of candidates, one stacked from top to bottom with political icons and young upstarts hoping to unseat them, it’s time to put up or shut up. The Presidential Election is still more than 18 months away, but we find ourselves quickly encroaching on primary and caucus season. The first, in Iowa, is scheduled for Monday, February 3. A month later there’s Super Tuesday, a single day smackdown with 12 primaries in 24 hours that could make or break a candidate’s chances at taking on President Donald Trump (the presumptive Republican nominee) for a bid at the…

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The Bitcoin bear is dead, but Tether drama could spell bad news for traders

The price of Bitcoin has “bottomed” – or so say the cryptocurrency analysts who predicted the end of the bear market. But now they’re warning the recent Tether drama could turn Bitcoin bearish in the short term. If that’s true, Bitcoin could soon mirror 2015 market cycles that led to a bull market lasting two years, independent research firm Delphi Digital reports. “In our […] report that we released in early December, we made a call that Bitcoin will bottom by the end of Q1 2019,” said Delphi Digital. “We continue to stand by that call, we believe Bitcoin has bottomed.”…

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How Facebook and Google are using algorithms to predict your next thought

Advertisements follow you everywhere. Google and Facebook have become the de facto diarchs, mining your online attention to track every single move to serve their needs. While it’s becoming increasingly impossible to quench the big tech’s thirst for user data, collect they must in order to sell ads, and for them to survive and grow. So don’t be surprised the next time you have a private conversation with your friend about a specific brand of earphones you were planning to buy, only to see an ad for that very earphone the next time you pick up your phone. According to…

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JP Morgan helps Canada and Singapore trial bank transfers on the ‘blockchain’

Central banks in Canada and Singapore claim to have successfully completed a cross-border payment using distributed ledger technology. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced earlier today that it has successfully settled an international payment with The Bank of Canada, in what it refers to as “Project Jasper-Ubin.” The project’s technology was developed with assistance from management consulting firm Accenture and American bank JP Morgan. The announcement didn’t disclose the total value of the transaction. Both banks have been experimenting with their own proprietary digital coins and distributed ledgers which they linked up using what it calls “hashed time-locked contracts,”…

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NYPD: Bitcoin thieves posing as government officials have stolen over $2M

New York’s Police Department (NYPD) is alerting the public about phone scammers posing as Social Security Administration officials and requesting payment in Bitcoin, prepaid gift cards, and bank wire transfers. NYPD noted the scammers have already thieved millions of dollars by exploiting the trusted reputation of government agencies. Such scams are on the rise, NYPD said. So far this year, the NYPD has received more than 200 complaints with losses totalling more than $2 million. In 2018, the NYPD received only three similar complaints. “Sophisticated phone scams use the trust victims have in their own governmental and law enforcement agencies against…

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Bitcoin whale moved $212 million in cryptocurrency — for just $3.93

An infamous Bitcoin ‘whale’ has moved an enormous cryptocurrency fortune in a single transaction, and the network charged less than $4 in fees. Bitcointalk's famous whale Loaded is moving its 40k BTC stash again.https://t.co/t6y909jN2Ehttps://t.co/TrHwb4s2H6 — Antoine Le Calvez (@khannib) May 1, 2019 “Loaded” is an old-school investor famous for their posts on mainstay forum BitcoinTalk. They’ve held 40,000 BTC for years, and every so often, they move it around. This time, the Bitcoin blockchain charged Loaded just 0.00074227 BTC ($3.93) to send $211.9 million worth of censorship-resistant digital money. Loaded uses ‘SegWit’ Bitcoin address for cheap fees Bitcoin’s price was still above…

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