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Sunday’s “flash crash,” similar to wild computer-driven swings in the stock market, did no lasting harm, and Bitcoin’s price quickly made up some of the loss. “A power outage in the Xinjiang region of China where a significant portion of Bitcoin mining takes place caused a very sudden dip in the global hashrate which, in turn, caused transactions to back up and fees to rocket temporarily,” Jason Deane, Bitcoin analyst at Quantum Economics, London, told Newsweek....

Grime’s developers, Clover Bite, describe a world “alien in its own familiarity,” filled with surreal environments and terrors around every corner. A fitting description would be Blasphemous meeds Zeno Clash, or Salt and Sanctuary meets Oddworld. There’s something unsettling about Grime and it isn’t just that the game’s protagonist looks like the main character of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy escaped from his cauldron. RELATED: George R.R. Martin Calls Elden Ring A ‘Sequel’ To Dark Souls...

A thousand years ago, this was one of the richest cities in the world, the terminus of the cross-Saharan trade that brought salt to exchange for slaves, gold and ivory. The palace has 5-foot thick walls, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, stone pathways and ornate mosaic domes. On the walls are large color photographs of a serious-looking man wearing a white turban with a veil across the bottom of his face. The two tails of the ceremonial knot that holds the veil in place look like bunny ears....

“The most dangerous people for Black people are white liberals,” Cleveland Councilman Basheer Jones recently told me. “I would rather deal with a person who is openly racist but I can do business with them than deal with a person who says ‘I’m the best thing since sliced bread’ but never allows me the opportunity to grow economically.” While these comments may seem surprising to people who only view politics as a red team vs....

Black dye in Minecraft: Everything players need to know Minecraft black dye is an item that players can use to change and customize different things. A player can dye their leather armor black by putting some of the dye in a cauldron. The players can then dunk each piece of leather armor they want to dye into the black water in the cauldron. Each dunk lowers the water level in the cauldron....

Almost anything that requires processing power is affected, but there are some specific products where shortages are being most keenly felt. With Black Friday sales events well underway at many retailers, here’s what you need to know. Games consoles There’s only one place to start. The PS5 & Xbox Series X and Series S have been extremely difficult to buy since they launched in November 2020, but don’t expect stock issues to be resolved anytime soon....

The return of Black Mirror was revealed in May, and for the last month or so fans have received a steady stream of announcements about who has been chosen to star in the show’s triumphant return. In mid-July, a long list of new names was added to Black Mirror, and the casting process is far from over. RELATED: 5 Sci-Fi Shows With The Best Opening Episodes Variety reports that Black Mirror is in talks to add two more big names to the cast: Hayek Pinault and Murphy....

There are nine unlockable zombies characters, but the infamous Shadowman can only be unlocked by buying Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s season pass. While some of the remaining eight appeared in one or multiple previous Black Ops installments, and some are completely new, all can be unlocked and become playable by completing various challenges in a particular order. Having appeared in both Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 3, Nikolai is making his third appearance in the Black Ops series....

The most exciting new content is the addition of Endurance Chaos Moshpit as a Featured Playlist, alongside several other new Moshpits being added to the Featured category. Treyarch also opened up about Black Ops 4 content coming soon, including the much anticipated League Play. The Endurance Chaos Moshpit in Black Ops 4 multiplayer should liven things up for the interim. This Playlist is built around the following: 6v6 with higher score limits....

On Friday morning, Trump left Washington, D.C., for Atlanta, where he was scheduled to meet with supporters for a roundtable discussion followed by a fundraising event at The Whitley hotel. Both events that were closed to the press. The president was then scheduled to deliver remarks at the Black Voices for Trump Coalition rollout at the Georgia World Congress Center, which was open to the public and press. While Trump performed better among black voters in 2016 than Mitt Romney did in 2012, he carried only 8 percent of the demographic’s vote....

Well first of all Blackberry is no more RIM. The Phone manufacturer has just dropped the name RIM and from now own would be known as BlackBerry. And now finally Blackberry Q10 is officially here. Blackberry’s CEO Thorsten Heins took off the veil from much awaited Blackberry Q10 and indeed hardware QWERTY keyboard based phone is a looker. The phone is brought out for hardcore keyboard lovers. Blackberry Q10 sports a 3....

The defensively challenged Blackhawks placed their starting goalie and early season MVP on injured reserve Friday afternoon, declining to disclose the nature or severity of the ailment in a brief media release. It was a surprise development after Crawford played the entirety of a 4-3 overtime loss to the Stars Thursday, stopping 31 of 35 shots. MORE: NHL’s worst injuries in 2017-18 To take Crawford’s place, Chicago recalled Jean-Francois Berube (6-6-0, 2....

That’s true for one side this year; not so much the other. This was supposed to serve as a marquee matinee for schedule makers at the beginning of 2017-18, but the last-place Blackhawks’ untimely demise strips it of some luster. Chicago is going through the motions of a lost season, having been virtually out of playoff contention since the beginning of February. MORE: Jonathan Toews’ troubling decline has Blackhawks in a bind...

The sight of McDavid blowing past defenders is an almost every-game occurrence for the Edmonton Oilers captain whose speed is the envy of the NHL. McDavid’s crossover moves that propelled him a league-high 108 points came from years of cruising around on rollerblades. “Even when I wasn’t on the ice, I was always on my rollerblades,” McDavid said. “It’s what’s kind of got me here. I love training that way....

However, accusing the midfielder of being inconsistent in all departments seems deeply unfair when you take one particular statistic into account. According to Opta, Ozil, who turned 30 on Monday, has created the most chances across Europe’s top five leagues since July 1, 2006: a total of 1,033. Those numbers span his spells in the first teams at Schalke and Werder Bremen, his three full seasons at Real Madrid and the five years since he signed for the Gunners, giving a healthy spread across three different countries....

Jakarta, Jul 5 (PTI) Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu celebrated her 23rd birthday with a straight-game win over Japan’s Aya Ohori, while H S Prannoy eked out a three-game victory over Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei to enter the quarterfinals of the USD 1,250,000 Indonesia Open here today. World no 3 Sindhu, who had reached the semifinals at Malaysia Open last week, didn’t break much sweat as she defeated Ohori, ranked 17th, 21-17 21-14 in a 36-minute women’s singles match....

This was when Bitcoin Cash entered the fray. But what is the difference between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash? And how do these cryptocurrencies deal with the problem of scalability? What Is Bitcoin’s Scalability Problem? The issue with most blockchain technology is that it’s very slow. This comes to light when we look at how fast banks process debit and credit card transactions. Visa, for instance, claims to be capable of processing as many as 65,000 transactions per second....

In the footage—which was captured on an Indonesian island—the giant lizard can be seen taking a few steps, before shaking the shell off its head. As it does so, someone off-camera can be heard joking, “What kind of Komodo is this?” Komodo dragons—otherwise known as Komodo monitors—are the largest and heaviest lizards in the world, typically weighing around 154 pounds, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute....

Taylor, who has a Test average of 48.04, had been battling a groin injury and a stomach bug but captain Kane Williamson said he had completed a full training session without problem. “He’s good to go so that’s great news for us,” Williamson said. “Roscoe has played beautifully every time he’s walked out to the crease, the calmness at the crease, the confidence. “It’s reflected in how much success he’s had this year....