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Bitcoin holders face sticky decision before August 1

Posted in Business on 30th Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

if you hold any bitcoin, then you'll receive the equivalent in a new cryptocurrency called 'Bitcoin Cash.' The reason why is messy, but you can think of it as a kind of dividend.

Facebook and Google had 99% of online ad growth

Posted in Business on 28th Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

Facebooks and Alphabet Inc.s Google took 99% of the online ad industrys growth last year, according to Pivotal Research.

Why chatbots need a big push from deep learning

Posted in Software on 24th Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

Deep learning has recently revolutionised fields such as computer vision and natural language processing (NLP).

Google Cloud gets a new networking algorithm that boosts internet throughput

Posted in Online on 22nd Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

The general idea here is to improve on the existing congestion-control algorithms for internet traffic, which have been around since the 1980s.

Bitcoin avoids split into two blockchains

Posted in Business on 22nd Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

Bitcoin averted a split into two currencies after its network supported an upgrade to its software that would enhance its ability to process an increasing number of transactions.