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Credits (CRDS) hard fork at block 375,000 in around 8 days will start new rewards structure

Credits (CRDS) hard fork at block 375,000 in around 8 days will start new rewards structure

Since it’s genesis block back in June 2017, Credits (CRDS) has kept to the same rewards structure which was planned over a 36 year period allowing for a total of 96 million CRDS to be issued. This all changes in around 8 days at block 375,000. The initial plan was to have 11 CRDS for each block, with 1 masternode reward per block, and 10 PoW (CPU only mining) rewards per block and gradually…

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Comparison of Credits masternodes and Dash masternodes

Comparison of Credits masternodes and Dash masternodes

Dash is quite possibly the best known cryptocurrency that includes masternodes. Whereas traditional cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin only provide proof of work (PoW) rewards from mining the coins, The next generation of coins support proof of stake (PoS) as well as PoW. The use of masternodes benefits the entire coin network as it increases the overall processing power and availability of the…

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Credits (CRDS) a community-driven cryptographic currency coming 17th June 2017

Credits (CRDS) a community-driven cryptographic currency coming 17th June 2017

Credits (CRDS), a community-driven cryptographic currency, has announced its first public release to take place on the 17th of June, 2017. Designed around accessibility, ease of use, and equality of opportunity, Credits offers people the opportunity to participate in the development of an innovative new cryptocurrency. Mining Unlike most other cryptocurrencies, mining Credits is done using a CPU,…

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Top 5 Mac Cleaning Softwares that Can Boost Your Mac’s Performance

Top 5 Mac Cleaning Softwares that Can Boost Your Mac’s Performance

Mac, the high-demand product of Apple Inc dominates a big share of the PC market. From useful software that come pre-loaded to built-in security features, and a good combination of hardware and software – Mac machines are worth their price. Cleaning is, however, one aspect that could hurt the optimum performance of Mac. Although, Apple has its own cleaning apps, they are not enough to ensure top…

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Dream Targeting – You Buy What You Dream in Your Sleep

Dream Targeting – You Buy What You Dream in Your Sleep

There are innovations and then there’s Dream Targeting – a digital technology that moves beyond the established understanding of digital media, to help brands better target their customers, and to increase sales. How did this innovation come about? We’ve all heard about REM sleep, which accounts for about 20 to 25% of a human beings sleep cycle. This is an intermittent sleep pattern, the cause of…

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An Ai Capable Of Rewriting Its Own Code Is A Reality

An Ai Capable Of Rewriting Its Own Code Is A Reality

The modern AI philosophy puts learning on the first place. Machine and deep learning are the two most popular catchphrases in today’s field of AI research. By repeating, in the form of feeding AIs huge amounts of data and them letting them learn on examples and making them capable of doing different things, we can today make AIs capable of recognizing different objects, predicting user’s…

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Bill Gates Believes Robots Should Pay Income Taxes

Bill Gates Believes Robots Should Pay Income Taxes

Automation is the next step towards the utopia where robot workforce does all with humans standing on the side, working on more creative works or jobs tough for robots to handle, like in the medicine, or psychology field. Automation is the next big leap, and possibly the longest jump forward industry will see ever since Henry Ford introduced assembly line back in 1913. But, the utopia won’t…

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LG Promises It's G6 Will Be A Multitasking Beast

LG Promises It’s G6 Will Be A Multitasking Beast

The LG G6 has not been released yet but all the signs point to a much-improved flagship device this year after the flawed G5 modular experiment. Leaks, as well as carefully prepared Press shots, have given us some idea of what to expect with this device, though. For one thing, LG has shelved the modular experiment and by all indications, plastic, as well. This should be the first all metal…

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Facebook Is Going For LinkedIn's Throat

Facebook Is Going For LinkedIn’s Throat

Facebook is getting ready to eat LinkedIn’s lunch as it allows companies to post job listings on their company pages. Facebook has over a billion daily users now and its algorithms are finely tuned to bringing people the content that they want to see. This means that job hunting could be as easy as ‘liking’ the company page and then getting regular updates on your news feed. It will definitely…

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The Terminator Conundrum – Will AI Become The Ultimate Weapon Of Destruction?

The Terminator Conundrum – Will AI Become The Ultimate Weapon Of Destruction?

These days arms race is starting to expand again. After the fall of USSR, a couple of decades passed with the biggest military powers staying on good terms one with another. The US were the ultimate player in the world, and the state of homeostasis lasted until the second half of the last decade. When you have one power above them all, things are easy, simple, and far from escalating. On the…

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Japan Has Plans To Build The World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

Japan Has Plans To Build The World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

Solar power is a solid source of renewable energy, but the problem some countries face is the lack of unoccupied land on which solar plants could be built on. Japan is among the countries with the least amount of unoccupied land, land that could be spared for building huge solar power plants. Since out planet is made mostly out of water surfaces, the question arises – could we use water surfaces…

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uBeam Just Blew Our Minds With Its Technology Demonstration

uBeam Just Blew Our Minds With Its Technology Demonstration

It is not often that we get a technology demo that seems truly magical anymore. Maybe it’s just cynicism from covering technology all the time or being wary of claims that sound to be good to be true from companies like Theranos or just the fact that true technological leaps are rare. This is exactly what uBeam was promising and to our delight, exactly what they delivered. The company promised to…

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New Report Unveils A Dramatic Increase In Malvertising During 2016

New Report Unveils A Dramatic Increase In Malvertising During 2016

Malvertising is a dark side of internet marketing. The number of pages containing malvertising ads is increased dramatically over the years, especially on mobile devices. Since ad blockers aren’t so prominent in the mobile world, many sites use malvertising to redirect users to pages containing malware, usually followed by obnoxious vibrating notifications. On the PC, malrvetising is also…

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Cellebrite, Company That Helped FBI To Hack An iPhone Used By The San Bernardino Attacker Got Hacked, iPhone Hacking Tools Leaked Online

Cellebrite, Company That Helped FBI To Hack An iPhone Used By The San Bernardino Attacker Got Hacked, iPhone Hacking Tools Leaked Online

If you remember, after San Bernardino terrorist attack, which took place during late 2015, FBI asked Apple to unlock the iPhone 5c used by one of the attackers, in an effort to uncover evidence that could give the police new findings of the case. Apple responded by stating that it can’t help the FBI because if the company made the potential unlock tool, the tool could make iPhone security…

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The Impending Death Of Our Free Internet

The Impending Death Of Our Free Internet

The free and open internet that allowed young startups to not only go toe to toe with established giants but also pull the rug from underneath them by innovative ideas may be a thing of the past soon. The United States has followed European laws in recent years when it comes to privacy, net neutrality, and anti-competitive practices but decisions are taken in America still have a massive bearing…

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Northwestern University’s Professors Created An AI System Capable Of Scoring Better Than 75 Percent Of The US Population In Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test

Northwestern University’s Professors Created An AI System Capable Of Scoring Better Than 75 Percent Of The US Population In Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test

One of the most important aspects of general intelligence model created by Charles Spearman. Spearman is one of the most recognized names in psychology because he was first to propose a model of general intelligence based on one common factor (a general ability factor, or simply the g factor) influencing every aspect of intelligence. Today, Spearman’s theory is considered as a base for all…

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Scientists At Harvard University Claim They Have Created Metallic Hydrogen, A Material That, Until Now, Existed Only In Theory

Scientists At Harvard University Claim They Have Created Metallic Hydrogen, A Material That, Until Now, Existed Only In Theory

Metallic hydrogen was a ghost material, predicted theoretically in 1935 by two physicists, Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington. The two scientists came to a conclusion that, under a colossal pressure hydrogen atoms could display metallic properties, but all predictions stayed just a theory because the amount of pressure needed to transform hydrogen into a metal was just too high to be…