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SEOUL -- The South Korean financial watchdog will forbid initial coin offerings, prompted by signs that the fundraising method due to concerns over the potential for financial scams.

“There is a situation where money has been flooded into an unproductive and speculative direction,” FSC vice chairman Kim Yong-beom added, according to national news agency Yonhap.

An ICO is a fundraising tool that trades future cryptocoins in exchange for cryptocurrencies of immediate, liquid value.

China’s Central Bank became the first to outlaw virtual token sales, in a move made earlier this month and now Korea is following suit.

Many companies globally have raised approximately $2 billion this year to date via ICOs. But it seems like it has attracted widespread criticism for its potential to deceive investors, who are not required to be accredited in any way because the space is not regulated like mainstream financial markets but there are plenty of more problematic ICOs while the number has risen behind 50 token sales per week

Just last week, a well-known Hong Kong gangster was linked with a $500 million casino ICO in Macau. also if you can remember a parody coin called ‘Useless Ethereum Token’ managed to raise nearly $90,000 from investors earlier in the summer.

“Raising funds through ICOs seem to be on the rise globally, and our assessment is that ICOs are increasing in South Korea as well,” Reuters reports that the Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) as said following a meeting with the Bank of Korea and the National Tax Service.

Regulations imposed in China have also led to Korea representing an increasing portion of global cryptocurrency trading. Today’s news sent the price of bitcoin down three percent and the value of Ethereum is down 6.5 percent.

Probably you are a big fan of chrome, you switched to it years ago and never looked for other alternatives because it never gave you trouble browsing. Chances are, before you made the switch, you used Firefox or internet Explorer. The mistakes Firefox made was getting slower and heavier with every single update. But times have changed. It’s now time to give Firefox another chance.

Earlier this week, Mozilla launched the first beta of Firefox 57. That doesn’t sound like a big deal, but version 57 is the most important Firefox release in years. It’s the culmination of years of work on many of the moving pieces that the user never sees but that allow the browser to quickly display your Yelp,Gmail inbox or Youtube. To mark the fact that this is such a major release, Mozilla has dubbed this release “Firefox Quantum.”

Honestly, We kinda lost Mozilla as they kept on working with various projects that went nowhere like mobile phone OS, IoT services, creating a built-in video chat service, etc. And at some point they got caught up in some political turmoil and it took a while for it to recover from all of this. 

Mozilla’s engineers were hard at work trying to create something that can keep up with our current technological advancement and google on the other side because Google are dominating now, they are the monopolizing the web. Some of the Mozilla's projects are coming to fruition. Building these took longer than expected but with Quantum, Mozilla now offers a browser that’s worth installing again.

Many of the updates in Quantum come from Mozilla’s experimental Servo browser and engine which was written in Rust, systems programming language that is claimed to run blazingly fast and this programming language Mozilla developed for exactly this kind of use case.

Lets get into details now, Firefox Quantum is so potential as it can now take full advantage of multiple CPU cores, which means web pages will render fast. this also means Firefox now uses far less memory and it is claimed to use less memory than Chrome itself

By the way their new interface is nice.The new interface focuses on simplicity and speed (just like chrome). you can still customize from the default interface, but that interface will now also look good on high-DPI screens and work better on laptops with touch screens.

So, the question is, Can Mozilla beat Chrome this time?

google Pixel 2 concept

Tired of hearing about the iPhone X? Google is gearing up to release the Pixel 2, the next generation of its smartphone. From the following teaser,The Pixel 2 will be able to solve problems like bad photos, storage, battery life, software updates, and more.

Obviously Google’s event will be one of the biggest hardware releases from the company in years. It seems that Google will have a few more products to announce at the event, the biggest thing will almost certainly be the Google Pixels 2. We’re expected to see two new phones to directly succeed Google’s existing lineup: a Pixel 2 which will supposedly offer a similar design to the original, and a larger Pixel 2 XL which is said to be getting a new screen design with reduced bezels reminiscent of the Samsung Galaxy S8.

Android Authority claims to have gotten a hold of the specs for the new devices, which look like some big improvements in terms of cool new features.Some of the new features includes optical image stabilization for both cameras, also expected to rated for IP67 if not quite the IP68 water resistance, will be removing the headphone jack in favor of only using USB-C, as well as the possible addition of stereo speakers, but it’s unclear whether or not either of those will actually be happening or if both devices will even see the changes.

 

 

Disney's live streaming services may be years back in upgrading their technology, but this week they have launched DisneyNOW, Disney's live streaming series app available for all of the devices for your favorite Disney TV shows, DCOMs and games are now all in one place. DisneyNOW lets you watch whenever, wherever with one customizable app made just for you.

That suites of TV series app, which has been downloaded 40 million times, since 2012 the company says. There was plan to some extent for the categories of shows, after all what would a 2-years old child will watch with respect to a mid-teenager.

But, we're evolving thoroughly while it made a sense to divide the properties to have it's own space in the live linear TV's apps.

However, Disney is in big trouble now it has been trying to personalize the live TV for it's publishing is 2019 edition release. It is going to be a big achievement for it's Netflix and competition with those big brand like Marvel, Pixar or Star-Wars series.

The good news is DisneyNOW does works with YouTube TV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV and Hulu credentials.

It's just ok to watch the Disney's shows previously available steaming apps, but it would be far better for the 12 years kid to install the DisneyNOW app, it would be lot easier for them to find their favourite shows instead of stumbling here and there.

Get DisneyNOW and start your awesome experience on any of these devices. If your device doesn't support DisneyNOW, you can still watch online!

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Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, who has apparently formed a new Silicon Valley-based religion, Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.”

Anthony Levandowski

Many people around the world believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans, When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly safe as he will be on the side of the machines, for the time being we’ll just have to wait until further instruction from thats so called 'future god', and hope we do nothing to anger it in the meantime.

Uncovered  by Wired, who found that in 2015 Levandowski founded documents that showed how Levandowski has positioned himself as the CEO and President of Way of the Future. Perhaps he's trying to act like the messenger of the BOT god

It is presumed that humans have always adapted and changed their religion and deities to fit with the changing times and changing technology. From the advent of agriculture killing the spirits worshipped by hunter-gatherers, or perhaps even the god of fire and volcanoes being co-opted by steelworkers, this is a common occurrence in communities throughout history. So perhaps the development of such religion is not that surprising in the long run.

This sounds so bizarre but the truth is it might be a while before Levandowski can devote his entire attention to the new Godhead, as he is currently mired in a billion dollar lawsuit between two of the biggest plays in Silicon Valley, as two of his former employees face off against each other. Google is claiming that Levandowski stole trade secrets from self driving cars technology in a bid to replicate the technology for Uber, and is seeking a $1.9 billion in damages, this burden might deteriorate him completely.

Travis kalanick (Left) former Uber CEO and Levandowski (right)

A veteran of Apple who has put in three decades in the company. Deirdre O'Brien has been appointed vice president of people. She has join Apple in 1998. As a part of new role, Deidre O'Brien after getting this position will be responsible for almost every HR functions at Apple, including talent development, benefits, recruitment, profits and even losses too, compensation, business support and involvement there is a criteria of handling Apple University.

She is report her functioning to Tim Cook, Apple CEO. Prior to this appointment, she was was working I was working as vice president for the world wide sales and operations for the company. She has a huge experience and is well versed with company culture and practices. Commenting on the appointment, Tim Cook said, “As long as I’ve been at Apple, Deirdre has been the glue bonds our operations, sales, marketing and finance team to deliver products to our customers. She is a superb leader and I’m thrilled she will be bringing her experience and talent to critical role.” O'Brien said she is very excited to lead Apple's team of 1,20,000 incredibly talented people who are from all over the world, and are motivated to do amazing things every day.

Deirdre holds a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Michigan State University and an MBA from San Jose State University.

During the Interview at the Good morning Britain TV session ,Al Worden, former astronaut and the first person to take a space walk and flew 75 times on moon, gave an interview today to describe his view of the history of mankind. He believes that the people are descended from aliens as related to ancient Sumerians.

This video is now going viral on internet causing Vladimir Putin a great deal of embarrassment. The video shows a large Russian bomber plane TU-22M3 cost around £35 million heading down the runway and then going off it and crashing into trees during an exercise.

The accident was said to have occurred on September 14 at the Shaikavka Airbase, but the video has only just been released onto the internet. It was said that it crashed during Zapad 2017 war drills, which is a huge show of force in Russia that features around 250 tanks, 70 jets, and about 13,000 troops.

Fortunately all four of the crew of the plane escaped from the cockpit before the jet finally crashed into the trees. A senior official revealed that the cause of the accident had been a failure of speed sensors during the take-off of the plane and this meant that the crew chose to abort take-off.

Here is a good news for the big fans of small gadgets, as they say 'this toy has an amazing grip on hand'. For years people have been asking for the 60fps capability on a 4K resolution on this action camera, well now GoPro just officially unveiled the Hero 6 Black, and it is already hitting stores in North America. It carries the same exterior design over from the Hero 5, waterproofing included, with the highlight features being increased frame rates, better overall image quality and speed, thanks to a new and custom processor. All of these new improvements are going to cost us extra bucks, the company’s newest flagship camera will retail for $499, a hundred bucks more than its predecessor.

The good news is that the Hero 6 Black will be all about slow motion, too, because users will now have a ceiling of 120 fps when shooting in 2.7K, and 240 fps in 1080p, which means the footage can be played back 10 times slower without any stuttering. The Hero 6 Black also uses 5GHz Wi-Fi to transfer all this footage to your smartphone three times faster, according to the company. And GoPro is promising improved digital image stabilization unfortunately not optical yet.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, 8 hrs ago shared a concept image on Instagram of his monster interplanetary rocket sitting on the surface of the Moon. Under a caption  “Moon Base Alpha,”

Moon Base Alpha

A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Sep 28, 2017 at 7:44pm PDT

The SpaceX CEO has long been a long time fan of colonizing Mars and not the Moon. In a paper about his colonization plans, he wrote: “We could conceivably go to our Moon, and I actually have nothing against going to the Moon, but I think it is challenging to become multi-planetary on the Moon because it is much smaller than a planet.” Conceivably, Musk has changed his mind on that now.

Mars City Opposite of Earth. Dawn and dusk sky are blue on Mars and day sky is red.

A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Sep 28, 2017 at 8:03pm PDT

Pressure from the US government and the space community at large may be the causative for the change of his plan. Vice President Mike Pence has hinted that the new administration may call for a return to the Moon.

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Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO on a conference today he ended his talk with a pretty promise of using that same interplanetary rocket system for long distance travel right here on Earth. Through the demonstration animation most of long distance trips will be covered within 30 minutes, eg Hong Kong to Singapore in 22 minutes, London to Dubai or New York in 29 minutes, and Los Angeles to Toronto in 24 minutes and go “anywhere on Earth in under an hour” for around the same price of an economy airline ticket.

SpaceX’s forthcoming mega-rocket will lift a massive spaceship into orbit around the Earth. The ship would then settle down on floating landing pads near major cities. Both the new rocket and spaceship are currently hypothetical, though Musk did say that he hopes to begin construction on the rocket in the next six to nine months.

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Many were aware of the potential danger of the asteroid Florence, which barely missed Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles. NASA announced that an object they named "2012 TC4" is heading towards the Earth and is expected to make its approach on October 12th and a research shows that New Yorkers will be closer to the object than to Tokyo. 

Asteroid Florence, Sept 1 2017

Just for the clarification sake, the 2012 TC4 is slightly smaller than Florence but it is much denser  than granite! and it is moving too fast. This asteroid is thousands of times heavier than the Chelyabinsk meteorite that devastated an entire Russian city. Based on public records, it will make the closest approach to earth of any other asteroid of its size. Compare a possible impact to a watermelon being shot with a BB gun. In this scenario, the BB gun is 2012 TC4 and Earth is the watermelon. It would penetrate the crust hence causing massive volcanic eruptions.

The married couple Betty and Barney Hill reported that they had been victims of a fourth kind of close-up encounter many years ago.To be exact on the night of September 19-20,1961 they encountered a UFO and were briefly abducted into the object by the occupants, where they were subjected to several experiments and surgical interventions. 

Now the niece of Betty and Barney Hill claims she can prove the alien abduction.

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A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses (M☉), and is found in the centre of almost all known massive galaxies.In the case of the Milky Way, the SMBH corresponds with the location of Sagittarius. Their presence is important in regulating how galaxies change. However, astronomers have an issue with them because they have discovered huge black holes already in place when the universe was still very young.

A team physicists have proposed a new mechanism for the quick formation of supermassive black holes. The researchers suggest that primordial gas moving at supersonic speed inside large dark matter clumps could accumulate rapidly enough to turn into black holes.

"The study identified a promising physical process through which a massive black hole could form fast enough by only introducing supersonic gas motions left over the Big Bang. These massive black holes born in the early universe continued to grow to become a supermassive black hole," lead author Dr Shingo Hirano told IFLScience

This provides a solution for the discovery of a supermassive black hole already in place 770 million years after whats so called the Big Bang. However, this is not the only hypothesis ,Recently, it has been suggested that proto-galaxies could help with the formation of such objects. 

"Other hypotheses on the formation of SMBH in the early Universe resort to very particular conditions; e.g. nearby light source galaxy or super-Eddington growth. Whereas our scenario need only the supersonic gas streams which are intrinsically generated in the early Universe according to the standard model of structure formation," added Dr Hirano. 

The formation of supermassive black holes is one of the great mysteries but we hope to solve it.

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Who knew your favorite childhood toy could endanger your life? A 47-year-old man from Preston recently found out that the source of his chesty cough was not lung cancer, but a tiny toy traffic cone inhaled 40 years earlier.

Due to the fact that, he was a long-term smoker and had only recently recovered from a bout of pneumonia, doctores thought his symptoms were the result of "lung Tumor"

According to A report from British Medical Journal,Scans did reveal a suspicious mass in the lung, but it was not until doctors took it out from his longs during a flexible bronchoscopy, Surprisingly it was just a Playmobil traffic cone .

But the good news is the man is still alive and healthy.

Scientists has shown that Coffee has anti-inflammatory and hepato-protective/liver-friendly properties.Scientists have also found more compelling evidence that drinking more than 3 cups of coffee per day has been associated with a 14% reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality

A new study by French scientists has shown how drinking three or more cups of coffee every day halved the risk of death among patients with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Their research was recently published in the Journal of Hepatology.

In the wider population, three cups of coffee every morning has been shown to cut the risk of liver cancer by 35 percent. In fact, too much is harmful so drinking five cups increased the risk even further, but all that caffeine could lead to other health problems in itself. 

"Even when cured of HCV, patients co-infected with HIV have a higher risk of death with respect to the general population, due to an accelerated aging process that may result from cancer, complications related to diabetes and to liver disease, and from cardiovascular events," explained lead investigator Dominique Salmon-Céron. He added, "I think we need to better monitor coffee consumption, together with other behaviors, such as alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, and to propose interventions to our patients which facilitate healthy behaviors even after HCV clearance,” 

Puerto Rico Convection center

Hurricane Maria swept the Caribbean island last week, leaving huge lose to the people of Puerto Rico. Houses were blasted away, roads washed out to sea, and the electricity grid totally destroyed. Outside of the San Juan which is the capital city, many people are still struggling without power or communication, and clean drinking water and medical aid is also scarce. 

Satellite night images of #PuertoRico. #HurricaneMaria knocked out power grid, millions without electricity. More @ https://t.co/UxxCHH5OVC pic.twitter.com/yUDLk8V0Jf

— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) September 25, 2017

what is Trump doing? Organizing assistance to be sent? Or simply offering his condolences? Nope, he’s tweeting that Puerto Rico should be dealing with its debts instead.

Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

1. The ‘i’ in Apple products originally stood for “internet,” Besides Internet, Apple's prefix also stand for individual, instruct, inform and inspire.

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During the debut of iMac, Apple’s co-founder and then CEO, Steve Jobs, said that the “i” stood for “Internet” and “Mac” for Macintosh. Later, Steve Jobs assigned four other meanings for the “i” in “i-products.” They are:” individual, instruct, inform and inspire.”(source)

2. Apple is one of the highest credit card information holders in the world because Apple has about 800 million iTunes accounts, and most of them are linked with credit card accounts which makes .

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3. Apple used to add the letter “x” to the names of their computers which got a processor upgrade. The convention was broken with Macintosh SE/30, which, if the rule had been followed, would have been called “Macintosh SEx.”

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4. Apple sells its iPhone 6s Plus at three times the cost of its production charge.

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To make an iPhone 6s Plus device, Apple spends $231.50, and after adding the manufacturing costs, it amounts to $236. Then it sells the iPhone at a 217.4 % markup, i.e. at $749.(source)

5. Apple’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, has a private lab that only his team and top Apple executives are allowed into. 

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Jonathan Ive started working full-time with Apple in 1992 and became the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design in 1997.  No one except his core team and top Apple executives is allowed access into his office. Even his children don’t have permission to enter his secret studio.(source)

1. Human brain cells, the universe, and the internet all have similar growth patterns.

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2. Despite being only two percent of the body’s weight, the human brain consumes 20% of the energy used by the entire body. 

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3. Brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and one billion synapses, all communicating with each other. 

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There are a total of more than 86 to 100 billion neurons in an adult human brain and just as many numbers of other cells.

4. The human brain has a capacity of 2.5 petabytes, that is 2.5 million gigabytes.

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Actually its impossible to measure precisely the brain’s capacity to store data.  Since a single neuron has the ability to connect with thousands of other neurons, it is capable of assisting with more than one memory at a time. This increases the brain’s storage capacity exponentially to something close to 2.5 petabytes. To put that into perspective, if those 2.5 petabytes of data were a digital video, it would take 300 years to finish playing it.(source)

5. About 60% of the dry mass of adult brain is made of fat; that’s approximately 25% of the total cholesterol in human body.

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6. Though human babies are born with large brain compared to their body size, the brain doesn’t reach complete maturity until the age of 25. Until then, the brain keeps on developing.

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7. Depending on how deep a thinker you are, your brain generates as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day. 

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However, the sad part is more than 70% of these thoughts are negative.(source)

8. When you orgasm, your brain releases so much dopamine that a brain scan would resemble that of someone on heroin. 

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Dopamine is one of the chemicals that affect your mood, the feeling of satiation, desire for intimacy, and also your susceptibility to addictions. Dopamine is the primary neurotransmitter of activities like eating, sex, or recreational drug use result in its release and hence you feel pleasure. When you are sexually aroused its levels rise making you feel good..(1,2)

9. There are no nociceptors in the brain, so the brain itself cannot feel pain.

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The headaches are actually pains from different parts of your face like the sinus or the top of the mouth.  The brain is not very good at identifying the exact location thats the reason you feel pain inside your brain. Another example is how people having a heart attack feel pain in their arm instead of at the heart.(source)

10. The brain is so plastic that it can rewire itself to let you have a normal life even after half of your brain is removed.

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Neuroplasticity is commonly observed in children who undergo hemispherectomy for epilepsy, a surgery that requires disabling half the brain or disconnecting the two cerebral hemispheres, and also in individuals who undergo surgery for brain trauma, stroke, epilepsy, or other such problems..(source)