Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Kierkegaard used to say: Yolo! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 3 2019, at a price of $10,623. That’s a respectable 2.68 percent increase in 24 hours, or $277. It was the highest closing price in thirteen days. We’re still 47 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Smartwatches are undeniably useful. However, many users can’t quite get over the fact that wearing most smartwatches still looks like you just velcro-ed an iPhone to your wrist. Functional? Absolutely. Stylish? Well…not so much… Noerden is a French watchmaker who has dedicated their work to blurring the lines between ultra tricked-out high-tech smart features and an accessory that seamlessly blends into any look. Right now, you can get up to nearly 40 percent off two of Noerden’s most popular smartwatch models with this TNW Deals offer....

We have made a great deal of progress in understanding brain activity, and how it contributes to human behavior. But what no one has so far managed to explain is how all of this results in feelings, emotions, and experiences. How does the passing around of electrical and chemical signals between neurons result in a feeling of pain or experience of red? There is growing suspicion that conventional scientific methods will never be able to answer these questions....

Wimmershoff, senior director of planning and control, and Philbin, senior director of perception and prediction, were at Zoox for around five years; bear in mind Zoox is only six years old. Most of the company’s autonomous driving software devs reported to the pair. In the short term, this is certainly going to throw a spanner in the works.

Liquid penetrating a smartphone can affect the device in several ways. It could lead to: blurry photos, if moisture gets trapped in the camera lens ruffled audio, or no audio liquid droplets under the screen an inability to charge the rusting of internal parts, or a total end to all functionality. While new phones are advertised as “water resistant”, this doesn’t mean they are waterproof, or totally immune to water....

Set in the titular Starship Troopers universe, the highly-anticipated game was just announced a little over a month ago, but luckily for us it’s been in development for awhile now and is slated for release later this year. Today we get a look at some gameplay with this awesome video that shows off what humanity is up against in a war where we’ll be perpetually outnumbered by over-sized vermin: And Slitherine was kind enough to share some details about the game as well....

Snowden believes crypto winters separate the scams from the legitimate uses. “The only people that remain are the people that are either using these networks functionally… or the people who are there for the long term,” the whistleblower said at TNW Conference 2022. Snowden has unique experience of crypto’s practical benefits. The servers that he used to leak documents about government surveillance were paid for with Bitcoin. The former NSA and CIA contractor was attracted to Bitcoin’s pseudonymity and utility....

And this is especially true in the business-to-business market. More than one in three “enterprise projects” — those solutions created for entire organizations, rather than individuals — come in over budget. Almost 40 percent take longer than estimated. And 35 percent miss customers’ expectations. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to this widespread problem. Enterprise software brands can delight their clients, and reduce costly failures, by bringing customers into the development process much sooner....

According to US car site Autoblog, the EQC was originally supposed to debut in America this year, however that timeline was pushed back to 2022. [Read: How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency] Unfortunately for Americans the EQC is now off the cards. Speaking to Autoblog, a Mercedes spokesperson declared: There is still a glimmer of hope. It’s not an entirely definitive statement, and it seems to leave the door somewhat ajar for the EQC making it to the US some day....

Alongside this has been an explosive rise in the value of stablecoins like tether, USDC and Binance USD. Like other cryptocurrencies, stablecoins move around on the same online ledger technology known as blockchains. The difference is that their value is pegged 1:1 to a financial asset outside the world of crypto, usually the US dollar. Stablecoins enable investors to keep money in their digital wallets that is less volatile than bitcoin, giving them one less reason to need a bank account....

Star Wars™️ Battlefront (Classic, 2004) –50% ? https://t.co/GjJuvmEy4v pic.twitter.com/snx88H61IK — GOG.COM (@GOGcom) May 1, 2020 Battlefront came out for Steam last year, but online multiplayer wasn’t an option as the original game ran on the redoubtable GameSpy servers. GameSpy shut down in 2014. While Battlefront II (the original) got modern multiplayer support on Windows back in 2017, the original game initially didn’t receive the same treatment. Community mods allowed for online play, but there was no official solution until now....

Now, there’s a new breed of automaker startups advancing materials innovation and sustainable motoring. And they’re doing it using solar technology to make solar electric vehicles. The two startups are Lightyear Motors and Sonos Motors. They both hail from Europe — from the Netherlands and Germany –and both started their journey in 2016. While most automakers seem stagnant in “nice to have” solar sunroofs, it’s these startups that are evolving the technology to new capabilities....

The stamp-sized device is made of soft silicone material, which is affixed to the base of the throat. It then monitors coughs, breathing, heart rate, and body temperature. All this data is sent to a cloud, where algorithms identify signals of the disease. The system then sends graphical summaries of the symptoms to a physician, who can use the insights to guide interventions and track the effects of treatments. At the end of each day, the user peels off the patch and puts it on a wireless charger....

This is according to research published by TheBestVPN, a virtual private network service provider. In a recent study titled “Putting a Price on Privacy” researchers surveyed 1,002 people to determine their views on personal data and privacy. Respondents were asked if they’d ever considered selling their data, how much they thought certain types of data were worth, and whether they took any steps to protect their privacy or data. On the plus side, nearly 94 percent of all respondents said they did take steps to protect their data....

Speaking to Swiss broadcaster SRF, the country’s president and finance minister Ueli Maurer said the project has failed, Reuters reports. He believes banks won’t accept Libra in its current form: That’s all well and good, but what if central banks don’t have to accept it? Banks don’t have to accept cryptocurrency, because exchanges allow users to convert their digital assets to fiat. If banks do refuse Libra, whether that will create an issue for Facebook remains to be seen....

“After careful deliberation, there was no acceptable path forward that would mitigate the risk enough to protect our community,” said Dr. Mark Escott, Austin’s public health medical director. [Read: TNW reschedules 2020 event to October 1 & 2] Several companies had already pulled out before the cancellation, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok. Over 50,000 people had signed an online petition requesting the event be canceled over public health concerns....

Computers have revolutionized the modern world. But what has contributed more? Hardware or software? As much as I’d like to claim my field, it has been the computer chip that has changed the world. For the past fifty years, the silicon chip has improved at an exponential rate. This trend is known as Moore’s Law, because Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, correctly predicted in 1975 that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years....

According to a report in the Washington Post, the developer identifies as a Christian and he believes that the machine has something akin to a soul — that it’s become sentient. As is always the case, the “is it alive?” nonsense has lit up the news cycle — it’s a juicy story whether you’re imagining what it might be like if the dev was right or dunking on them for being so silly....

Today, we’re talking about the latter. Why? Because the Apple Podcast app redesign is a violation of our human rights; a plague upon this fair and pleasant land. Okay, that’s a bit much. But the redesign is annoying. Anything that gets tweaked should be better to use, right? Well, that hasn’t happened with the new Apple Podcasts app. The most obvious and least offensive change is visual. The overall shape of the app remains much the same, but the show pages have been redesigned so they look far more modern....

Just kidding. It’s the Meta Store. So far, the first Meta Store looks… pretty much exactly like what you’d expect. Located in Burlingame, California, — near Meta’s Reality Labs — the store features a distinct combination of wood paneling and futuristic lighting that shouts ‘we’re a tech company.’ It looks like someone cut out a slice of a Silicon Valley HQ and added some gadgets to fill up the space....