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What the top crypto execs predict for the industry in 2022: Regulation and a Big Tech ‘brain drain’

Cryptocurrencies have had yet another wild year. Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital asset, has seen a roughly 65% gain since January — with some ten to twenty percent swings in between. It brought in a crop of new, individual investors along the way as payment giants like

Kolkata rally: Big tents, helpdesks, CCTVs, camps set to host TMC workers

A health kiosk at the Central Park camp Thursday. (Express photo/Partha Paul) Two giant tents, CCTV cameras, a help desk and a health kiosk — these are among arrangements made by the TMC at Gitanjali Stadium in Kolkata, which will accommodate around 20,000 party workers ahead of

I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that’s a big problem for social media companies

The first time I truly took a break from social media was in 2015, at a summer camp for burned-out adults called “Camp Grounded.” There were three rules: Take a camp name of your choosing, like Luna or Huckleberry, avoid talking about “W,” meaning work, and ditch

Samsung Galaxy J4 Core goes official with big 6-inch display and 3,300mAh battery

After the leak the other day, the Samsung Galaxy J4 Core doesn’t surprise us with its official release today, but we will go over this once again. It’s the company’s second Android Go-powered handset after all and will probably be a good deal in the emerging markets.

FORD PAVES A PATH FROM BIG AUTOMAKER TO BIG OPERATING SYSTEM

New CEO Jim Hackett has promised a new way forward for Ford, including “a total redesign of the surface transportation system with humans and community at the center.” ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES IN ITS 114-YEAR history, Ford has been many kinds of automaker. A manufacturing innovator, a hawker of

Terence Corcoran: Big Tech ‘trust busters’ are coming to ruin your internet fun

Consumers of the world, unite! You have everything to lose, including lower prices, faster service, instant information, economic freedom, more products and the knowledge that the world is increasingly at your beck and iPhone call. All this is potentially at risk if the latest Big Government movements

OnePlus bets big on Croma for offline expansion in India

NEW DELHI: In a push to ramp up its retail presence and make its smartphones and accessories reach out to more users across India, OnePlus India has chosen Croma as its offline retailer for OnePlus devices. Vikas Agarwal, general manager, India, revealed the news to Gadgets Now in a telephonic interview.

Britain’s Big New Warship Still Runs Windows XP

HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s newest vessel and the largest one ever built in the United Kingdom, is an impressive ship. Nine hundred and nineteen feet long with a crew of 1,600, the ship can carry up to 40 aircraft. Queen Elizabeth and her sister ship,

The Internet Is Now Officially Too Big as IP Addresses Run Out

The Internet as we know it is now officially too big for its britches. The organization that assigns IP addresses in North America — the numbers that identify every computer, smartphone and device connected to the Internet — ran out of numbers overnight Wednesday. It’s not the

MEGA evolutionary software re-engineered to handle today’s big data demands

A Temple University-led research team has released a new version of their popular MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genomics Analysis) software, one of the most highly downloaded and widely used tools used by scientists worldwide to harness large-scale DNA sets for comparative studies. At its core, MEGA is a