Canaan Reports $5.6M in Q1 Net Loss with Falling BTC Miner Demand

The company even cut the prices of its devices by more than half.

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If you've always wanted to learn guitar, this course makes it easy

If learning to play guitar is your new project to fight boredom or something you’ve always wanted to do, the Ultimate Beginner to Expert Guitar Lesson bundle from StackSocial could be just what you’re looking for.

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/if-youve-always-wanted-to-learn-guitar-this-course-makes-it-easy/

Dan Levy is encouraging face coverings as an act of kindness

Dan Levy wants to change the way you think if you don’t want to wear a mask in public during the coronavirus pandemic.

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/dan-levy-is-encouraging-face-coverings-as-an-act-of-kindness/

Funko honors doctors and nurses on COVID-19 frontlines with Pop! figures

Every night at 7 p.m., people across the country open their windows and make as much noise as possible to show their appreciation for the doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Funko, the company best known for its vinyl figurines with big heads and button eyes, would like to honor first responders in its own way, too.

On Friday, Funko announced a new toy line in its Pop! Heroes collection. While the company is used to licensing iconic pop culture brands from Marvel to WWE, these Funko Pop! figures will honor a different type of superhero: first responders. 

“In honor of the first responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, Funko is excited to announce the new line of Pop! Heroes to commemorate the nurses and doctors who are giving their all to help treat patients,” the company said in a statement. Read more…

More about Nurses, Doctors, Funko Pop, First Responders, and Hospital Workers

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Bitcoin Survived Halving, but Death Spiralists Still Say BTC Is Doomed

The probability of a BTC network collapse in the next five years “is quite high — well over 50%,” said venture capitalist Zach Resnick

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/bitcoin-survived-halving-but-death-spiralists-still-say-btc-is-doomed/

World's fastest internet connection: Researchers say they hit 44.2 Tbps

Internet is never fast enough, but a group of researchers from the Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities in Australia have reached speeds that would sate even the hungriest of data geeks. 

In a new paper published in Nature Communications (via The Verge), the researchers describe how they managed to hit speeds of 44.2 Tbps (terabits per second), a new world record. 

Impressively, they’ve done this using standard optic fiber, both in the laboratory and on an actual network in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. The 44.2 Tbps result was for a raw bitrate; for a coded rate and in the field, this speed fell down to 39 Tbps, which is still very respectable.  Read more…

More about Internet, Broadband, Tech, and Big Tech Companies

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Fed Up With Its Fork of Stellar, Kin Is Looking to Move Onto Solana

The Kin Foundation is seeking to move the kin cryptocurrency onto the Solana blockchain, according to a proposal shared with CoinDesk.

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/fed-up-with-its-fork-of-stellar-kin-is-looking-to-move-onto-solana/

World's fastest internet connection: Researchers say they hit 44.2 Tbps

Internet is never fast enough, but a group of researchers from the Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities in Australia have reached speeds that would sate even the hungriest of data geeks. 

In a new paper published in Nature Communications (via The Verge), the researchers describe how they managed to hit speeds of 44.2 Tbps (terabits per second), a new world record. 

Impressively, they’ve done this using standard optic fiber, both in the laboratory and on an actual network in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. The 44.2 Tbps result was for a raw bitrate; for a coded rate and in the field, this speed fell down to 39 Tbps, which is still very respectable.  Read more…

More about Internet, Broadband, Tech, and Big Tech Companies

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Fed Up With Its Fork of Stellar, Kin Is Looking to Move Onto Solana

The Kin Foundation is seeking to move the kin cryptocurrency onto the Solana blockchain, according to a proposal shared with CoinDesk.

http://blog.webhits.io/fed-up-with-its-fork-of-stellar-kin-is-looking-to-move-onto-solana/
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'Pac-Man' once felt futuristic. Now there's a new one built entirely by AI.

We all have to look a little harder for reasons to celebrate in this dark year of 2020, but here’s a good one: On May 22, Pac-Man turns 40.

The first video game to really catch the attention of a global audience came to Japanese and American arcades in 1980. The round, yellow hero’s pellet-chomping, ghost-dodging ways immediately felt like a technological marvel. But now, the same feat of computer programming that seemed so complex way back when has been rebuilt from the ground up – by a thinking computer.

That creation, the AI that built its own Pac-Man, is the product of Nvidia’s research team. The Nvidia GameGAN, as it’s called, learned everything it could about the classic arcade game over the course of 50,000 “episodes,” or play sessions, in which it monitored key presses and on-screen behaviors to glean an understanding of Pac-Man‘s ground rules. Read more…

More about Tech, Gaming, Pac Man, Deepfakes, and Entertainment

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/pac-man-once-felt-futuristic-now-theres-a-new-one-built-entirely-by-ai/