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  1. Nigeria World News

    World Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain – Wired

    The week began with dragon’s breath. After a major breach in its firewall, a scrappy security team in the north engaged in an epic battle to rid its system of an infected payload that kept growing bigger and bigger, spewing frozen ice flames across all critical infrastructure. Yes, I’m … Read...
  2. Nigeria Metro News

    Metro Facebook Wants to Connect You With Your ‘Secret Crush’ – Wired

    Facebook is channeling its earliest days as a hot or not website for college students with a new feature called Secret Crush. To be announced today at the social network’s annual.... Read more via Wired – http://bit.ly/2WguAHE Get More Nigeria Metro News
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    World Twitter Users Are Richer and More Woke Than the Rest of Us – Wired

    IT'S A FEELING familiar to anyone who lives an extremely online life. You spend all day on Twitter watching Howard Schultz get roasted and ratioed or retweeting all of the best definitions of the.... Read more via Wired – http://bit.ly/2vme0dr Get more World News
  4. Nigeria Business News

    Business The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web – Wired

    If you were on the internet in the late 1990s, you might remember companies like AllAdvantage that promised to pay you to surf the web. You could install a program that tracked your browsing and showed you targeted ads at the top of the screen; then AllAdvantage would give … Read more via...
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    World Inside the Weird, and Booming, Industry of Online Influence – Wired

    In the past 10 years, “sponcon,” the business of getting paid to promote a company via your social media, has spread pandemic-like. Sponsored content may be obnoxious (and even morally questionable at times), but it’s plenty legal—as long as influencers cop to the fact that they’re being paid...
  6. Nigeria Business News

    Business A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions – Wired

    Last summer, Adrian Bednarek was mulling over ways to steal the cryptocurrency Ethereum. He’s a security consultant; at the time, he was working for a client in the theft-plagued cryptocurrency industry. Bednarek had been drawn to Ethereum in particular because of its notorious complexity, and...
  7. Nigeria World News

    World Dark Web Drug Seller Sinmed Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals – Wired

    Until a few weeks ago, sinmed was one of the largest drug vendors at Dream Market, the foremost dark web bazaar. It took in millions of dollars shipping fentanyl-laced heroin, methamphetamines, and… Read more via Wired – http://bit.ly/2DkrsTx Get more World News
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    World China Says Bitcoin Is Wasteful. Now It Wants to Ban Mining – Wired

    China’s bitcoin miners have long embodied a contradiction. Cryptocurrency trading is illegal in the country; initial coin offerings, used to fund new blockchain projects, are banned; and Chinese banks can hardly touch the stuff. And yet somehow the country has remained the epicenter of global...
  9. Nigeria World News

    World An IOS App That Secretly Spies on You, And More News – Wired

    Hackers found their way into Apple’s ecosystem, and possibly your phone Cyber criminals have been directing users to download something called Exodus, an app that was actually malware. It allowed access to photos, videos, device IDs, audio recordings, and … Read more via Wired –...
  10. Nigeria World News

    World Why 5G Makes Me Reconsider the Health Effects of Cellphones – Wired

    Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. Wallace-Wells, who had me from his first sentence (“It is worse, much worse, than you think“), has done us all the great favor of clearly laying out the incontestable evidence about what warming...
  11. Nigeria World News

    World UPS Drones Are Now Moving Blood Samples Over North Carolina – Wired

    If you’re inclined to puns, you might say medical samples are the lifeblood of hospital systems. But if you actually work with them, you know they’re more of a headache. Because the same road traffic that keeps you from getting home keeps the couriers charged with moving these tissue … Read...
  12. Nigeria World News

    World The Gene Mutation That Could Cure HIV Has a Checkered Past – Wired

    In the three and a half decades since HIV/AIDS was discovered, the deadly disease has killed 35 million people. While drugs now allow patients to live long lives with the virus, only one man, an American named Timothy Ray Brown, otherwise known as the “Berlin patient,” is believed to … Read...
  13. Nigeria World News

    World Michael Cohen’s Credibility Has Never Been More Certain – Wired

    Like many reporters and editors in DC or New York, I have been yelled at by Michael Cohen. It’s been almost a rite of passage for anyone writing about Donald Trump over the last decade. There was no bone too small for his long-time lawyer and fixer to pick … Read more via Wired –...
  14. Nigeria World News

    World Infared Photos Reveal Dubai’s Green Space – Wired

    Dubai’s desert landscape isn’t exactly hospitable to plant life. Sitting on the Arabian Peninsula, the soil is sandy and poor, the wind and heat extreme, and it only rains about three inches a year. But that hasn’t stopped Dubai from striving to become a “green paradise.” Over the past three …...
  15. Nigeria World News

    World The World Might Actually Run Out of People – WIRED

    You know the story. Despite technologies, regulations, and policies to make humanity less of a strain on the earth, people just won’t stop reproducing. By 2050 there will be 9 billion carbon-burning, plastic-polluting, calorie-consuming people on the planet. By 2100, that number will balloon...
  16. Nigeria Entertainment News

    Entertainment How Amazon Alexa Uses Machine Learning to Get Smarter – Wired

    It’s fair to say that when Amazon introduced the first Echo speaker in the fall of 2014, most people weren’t quite sure what to make of it. In the intervening years, Echo and the broader universe of Alexa-powered devices have transitioned from curiosity to ubiquity. But while you can find...
  17. Nigeria Metro News

    Metro Your Facebook Posts Can Reveal If You’re Depressed – Wired

    Facebook’s 2.2-billion active users use the platform for sharing all kinds of things... Read more via Wired – https://ift.tt/2pTsQFH Get More Nigeria Metro News
  18. Nigeria Business News

    Business Tech Founders’ Absolute Power Is Destroying Company Culture – Wired

    When Richard Liu Qiangdong—the billionaire founder and CEO of China’s e-commerce giant JD.com—was arrested in Minneapolis on suspicion of rape, many people’s eyes turned to the company’s board of directors. In any typical business, it’s the board’s role to hold the CEO accountable. What would...
  19. Nigeria Metro News

    Metro Drivers Wildly Overestimate What ‘Semiautonomous’ Cars Can Do – Wired

    Cars are getting smarter and more capable. They’re even starting to drive themselves, a little. And they’re becoming a cause of concern for European and American safety agencies and groups. They’re all for putting better tech on the road, but automakers are selling systems like Tesla’s...
  20. Nigeria World News

    World Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google? – Wired

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai was upbeat Monday when he told WIRED about internal tests of a censored search engine designed to win approval from Chinese officials. It will take more than a government nod for Google to succeed, however. That’s not only because of the political tensions raised by …...
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