Crowdfunded Astro Slide phone with slide-out keyboard, Linux support should ship in 2022
The Astro Slide is a smartphone with a 6.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a MediaTek Dimensity 800 processor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 4,000 mAh battery and support for wireless charging. But those aren’t...
Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good
I doubt this story will be of interest to anyone but me, but it's the best thing that happened to me this month. Back in October I bought a new house and arranged a homeowners’ insurance policy for it. The main purpose of such a policy is that if your house is destroyed by fire or some other calamity, the homeowners’ insurance people will arrange to build you a new house in the same place. If you have a mortgage, the lienholder...
Private aviation boomed during the pandemic and the industry is reshaping itself with new business jets to keep up with growing demand
Shutterstock.com Private jets boomed during the start of the pandemic as customers sought travel perceived as safer. Experts say the convenience of private jets and the reduction of airline connectivity also contributed...
Day 2 of Blockchain | Run your First Decentralized Application on a Devnet
So it turns out - blockchain is actually pretty cool. I’m super excited to be partnering with Reach and Algorand to create a YouTube series that tackles how to create decentralized applications with blockchain technology.In 10 Days of Blockchain, you’ll learn what a blockchain is, build a decentralized application, and deploy it to the Algorand blockchain.With Day 2 specifically, we'll create our first decentralized application and...
How to do Global SEO?
Global SEO should be the first thing in a website owner or entrepreneur’s mind when catering to customers from different regions. Your website can benefit from an overhaul, with specific changes to target and bring in international traffic. Here are 5 ways on how you can Optimize your Site for an International Audience. Identify the Regions You Want It’s usually not enough to aim for a global audience- you will need to specifically...
Ezra Koenig Discusses The Origin Of The ‘Not So Great Pop’ Song He Wrote For ‘I Think You Should Leave’
Getty Image While it was a mostly quiet year for Vampire Weekend, fans got a bit of new Ezra Koenig material via a song in Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave. Koenig didn’t appear in the episode’s...
Another Nail in the U.S. Empire’s Coffin… Biden Signs $770 Billion War Budget
Three decades after the Cold War officially ended, the U.S. is setting a new record high for annual expenditure on its armed forces. As this year ends, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law military spending of $770 billion. That’s just for the next year alone. The scale of wastefulness and bloated corruption is eye-watering. It eclipses what the United States is willing to invest for overhauling its badly neglected civilian...
🍾Top DeFi Stories 2021: Crypto Politics, El Salvador, Worst Rug Pulls, Best Memes, Plus Top Defiers!
Hello Defiers! Happy New Year! Welcome to our special edition newsletters chronicling the best, worst, and strangest events in DeFi in 2021.This week, we’ve been counting down to New Year’s Day with a load of...