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A new study warns that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like it could help push the Earth’s temperature past the 2°C global warming threshold in only a couple decades. The reason lies in how bitcoin and similar digital money works: by utilizing substantial hardware resources, gobbling up...

Apple is currently investigating a report that Apple Watch supplier Quanta Computer relied upon illegally employed students to help manufacture the company’s exceedingly popular wearable. "Originally brought to light by The Financial Times, the report details how dozens of students were...

Apple’s iOS 12.1 update will arrive on iPhones and iPads on Tuesday, the same day the company will launch its newest iPads and Macs. Group FaceTime automatically … Read more via CNET – https://ift.tt/2JoCzN8 Get more World News

Those of you who detest display notches will find this bug especially unpleasant. A small number of Pixel 3 XL users are reportedly experiencing a bug where an additional notch appears on the right side of the display.... Read more via Slashdot – https://ift.tt/2CP44Oz Get more World News

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Trump administration on Monday announced it was banning U.S. exports to a Chinese semiconductor firm named Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company, citing national security concerns. In a statement released by the U.S. Department of Commerce...

Britain will introduce a new digital services tax aimed at tech giants from 2020, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday, responding to public outrage over low tax payments. “It is only right that these global giants with profitable businesses in the UK pay their fair share,” Hammond...

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up near police vehicles on a busy street in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Monday after a three-year break in such attacks, injuring at least nine people, the interior ministry said. Ministry spokesman, Sofiene Zaag, told AFP that all but one …...