Apple reportedly acquires Stamplay, Visa API development contest winner
Apple hasn’t specified the acquisition’s purpose, but the small Italian company has financial services experience, and integrates multiple APIs into apps.Read More
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Seattle startup Boundless raises $7.8M to become ‘the one-stop shop’ for legal immigration
The Boundless team has grown to 28 employees in the company’s first two years. (Boundless Photo) In the two years since it launched, Boundless has become the top destination for immigrants applying for marriage-based green cards in the United States. Foreign nationals seeking legal status in the U.S. received more marriage-based green cards through Boundless[…]
These Bears Can Mimic Faces Like Humans and Apes
There’s a quiet little scene in Jaws that shows Chief Brody and his young son imitating each other’s gestures and facial expressions. The interaction is a great cinematic example of a real-life phenomenon called facial mimicry, an ability linked with keen social intelligence that’s been observed in humans and some great apes—and now, bears. As[…]
A Privacy-Focused Bitcoin Cash P2P Exchange Is Coming to Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is always been on a quest to promote Bitcoin adoption. Our educational resources, forums, newsdesk, and other services reflect that mission on a daily basis. Now our web portal is introducing a feature called Local Bitcoin Cash, a service that facilitates the peer-to-peer trading of local currency for bitcoin cash (BCH). The new service[…]
In the Daily: Coins at Kiosks, Micropayment Solutions, Token Launchpad, GPU Inventory
In this edition of The Daily, we feature a couple of announcements by leading crypto exchanges. Binance starts selling cryptocurrency for cash at newsagent stores in Australia, while Huobi is launching its new token listing platform. In other news, Aeternity and Satoshipay join forces to offer faster crypto micropayments and Nvidia expects to clear mining[…]
Epic Games makes online services available for free to game devs
Epic Games is taking its learnings from Fortnite and making them available for free in the form of Epic Online Services for game devs.Read More
A Mysterious Ocean ‘Blob’ Might Have Kept Female Whales From Getting Pregnant
The “blob,” a mysterious mass of warm water that stretched hundreds of miles across the Pacific for six years, may have caused fewer humpback whales to be born, according to a new study. Between 2017 and 2018, unknown circumstances seem to have hampered humpback whale birth rates, scientists with the Keiki Kohola Project and California[…]
US immigration policy has employers eyeing Canada for job growth
The city of Toronto. (BigStock Photo) As the United States cracks down on employment-based immigration programs, Canada has been aggressively marketing itself as a friendly alternative for tech companies seeking international talent in the nation’s quest to become a more influential tech hub. American tech companies are taking note. (Envoy Graphic) Some 65 percent of[…]
Report: 87% of Crypto Exchanges May Be Falsifying Volume
At least 87 percent of cryptocurrency exchanges may have falsified their reported trade volumes, a new study claims. According to a review of the top 100 exchanges by analytics company The Tie, most of the trading volume on the world’s largest crypto trading platforms is suspect. Also read: Quadrigacx Co-Founder a Convicted Fraudster Suspicious Trading[…]
Up & Down: BTCP and ABBC Plummet Amid Controversy
Liquidity has shifted away from the top gaining crypto assets, with only six of the week’s 30 top performing markets currently riding 24-hour volume of seven figures or higher in USD. ABBC comprises the most liquid of the week’s top losers, currently ranking as the sixth poorest performing market of the last seven days after[…]