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Once A Promised Land For Bitcoin Miners, Kazakhstan Is Shifting The Regulatory Crosswinds
Bitcoin’s hash rate is hovering around all-time highs, but many miners are still struggling to recover from regulatory changes in regions that became major hubs for the industry.During the summer of 2021, China’s bitcoin mining ban catalyzed a 50% drop in hash rate in the span of barely two months. But on February 15, Bitcoin’s…
Gig Workers Were Promised a Better Deal. Then They Were Outsourced
Another subcontractor in Liverpool, who declined to give his name because he was worried about losing his job, has also encountered problems. He claims that Randstad does not compensate its remote couriers—who are able to start work from home instead of from a Just Eat courier hub—if they suffer bike problems while they are supposed…
Microsoft has promised to actively look into right to repair
Microsoft has agreed to have an independent third-party study the potential impact of it making its devices easier to repair and to make changes based on those findings by the end of 2022, according to Grist and the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. The agreement was made after As You Sow filed a shareholder…
THE PROMISED NEVERLAND Manga Illustrator Draws Dune Poster for Japanese Release
As the DUNE film opens around the world, Japan will also be bitten by the large sandworm when it hits the island nation on October 15. But before then, an illustration by THE PROMISED NEVERLAND manga illustrator Posuka Demizu was released today for the Japanese release of the film and features the main characters of the Denis Villeneuve-directed feature, drawing praise…
What they promised us, 2021 edition: campaign pledges from the candidates Ottawa elected
We'd like to lay out the mandates that Ottawa's new and returning federal representatives have set for themselves. Author of the article: Taylor Blewett Yasir Naqvi Photo by Files /SunMedia Ottawa has selected its slate of MPs for the new Parliament, and all of those victorious candidates made promises to voters during the campaign about…