Network Support Blog

Posts

Taproot, a significant Bitcoin upgrade promising better transaction privacy and smart contracts, got approved by miners globally, due to take effect in November (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Taproot, a significant Bitcoin upgrade promising better transaction privacy and smart contracts, got approved by miners globally, due to take effect in November — - The first bitcoin upgrade in four years has just been approved by miners around the world. It's called Taproot, and it's due to take effect in November. https://bit.ly/35kiu6x

Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more — Apple executives talk about the new iPad software's mental models and multitasking enhancements — The announcement of new iPad software at this year's WWDC conference … https://bit.ly/3pNiQfi

A look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone (Caroline Lester/New Yorker)

Caroline Lester / New Yorker: A look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone — BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for. https://bit.ly/2RR3lqc

Honeywell merges its quantum computing business with Cambridge Quantum to form a new joint venture; Honeywell will hold a majority stake and invest $270M-$300M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Honeywell merges its quantum computing business with Cambridge Quantum to form a new joint venture; Honeywell will hold a majority stake and invest $270M-$300M — Honeywell, which only recently announced its entry into the quantum computing race, and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQ) … https://bit.ly/3izpZhB

Facebook unveils TextStyleBrush, an AI project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word and can edit and replace text in images (About Facebook)

About Facebook: Facebook unveils TextStyleBrush, an AI project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word and can edit and replace text in images — - We're introducing TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word. https://bit.ly/2Tpmkso

YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community — A look into how a famed, yet feared, accelerator handles dissent — Community has never felt louder in startupland. https://bit.ly/3gd8oui

Google commits to involve UK's competition and privacy regulators in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals to replace third-party cookies on Chrome (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Google commits to involve UK's competition and privacy regulators in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals to replace third-party cookies on Chrome — - Google will give the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority a say in its plans to replace third-party cookies on Chrome. https://bit.ly/2SsCO2H