By CCN: Bitcoin might be uncorrelated to the stock market, but searches for the top cryptocurrency are highly correlated with that of Kim Kardashian. ConsenSys points out the similarities in a recent blog post in which it compares the popularity of the bigges…
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Month: June 2019
Google is doing an awful job selling Stadia to gamers
Getting its announcements in just before the madness of E3 kicks off, Google has finally revealed more information on its upcoming streaming platform, Stadia. In a live stream on Thursday, Google’s Phil Harrison, leading the Stadia project, detailed the launc…
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There’s a lot Wikipedia can teach us about fighting disinformation
In March 2018, editors on Wikipedia English noticed that someone had been making odd changes to an article about Maria Butina, a Russian woman suspected of being an agent of the Kremlin in the US.(She subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the US.)…
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Tesla’s largest institutional investor is standing by the firm through various scandals. Its managing partner explained to us how the firm decides it’s time to ditch a company.
There has been no shortage of reasons to sell Tesla’s stock since its price peaked in September 2017. From high-level employee departures and delivery bottlenecks to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation, the electric carmaker’s shareholde…
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New SEC lawsuit could decide the fate of dozens of blockchain projects
Enlarge/ Kik CEO Ted Livingston. 1 with 1 posters participating The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against social media company Kik over its creation and sale of a cryptocurrency called Kin back in 2017. Kik is vowing to fight the la…
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