Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims Russia has floated the prospect of Putin a ban on cryptocurrencies.… …read more Source:: Register

“Uh, the Missouri Emergency Alert system wants us to know The Joker’s on the prowl apparently.” …read more Source:: CNet

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the US government has introduced new restrictions to protect public health while facilitating cross-border travel and trade. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Twitter claims it wants to become the ‘discovery platform’ for all things crypto, including NFTs. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Want some documentary picks? You’ve come to the right place. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight. Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford landed back at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in Belgium after flying…

People really want to 3D print metal, but while true metal printers exist, they still are expensive and out of reach of most hackers. However, even if you can afford an exotic printer or use metal-impregnated polymer, you don’t often see copper as a print material. Copper has high electrical and thermal conductivity which makes…

730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too 730 million 5G subscriptions have been ordered in China, according to operational statistics published this week by the nation’s big three carriers: China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

nickwinlund77 shares a report from SciTechDaily: UNSW Sydney-led research paves the way for large silicon-based quantum processors for real-world manufacturing and application. Australian researchers have proven that near error-free quantum computing is possible, paving the way to build silicon-based quantum devices compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing technology. […] [The researcher’s] paper is one of three…

Long known for its hosted Exchange email service, company has modernized to provide enterprise cloud services for call centers. …read more Source:: ZDNet