Computing Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork Is Being Delayed Until 2019 | Crypto Oct 20, 2018 Ethereum upgrade Constantinople will be postponed until early 2019, developers confirmed in a meeting Friday. Initially targeted to activate in…
Computing Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork Faces ‘Consensus Issue’ in Testing | Crypto Oct 15, 2018 An alleged “consensus issue” in the testing of a planned hard fork of Ethereum, called Constantinople, has caused a testnet to be “not usable,”…
Mac My MacBook hard drive has 12 GB of mysterious hidden files, and nothing seems to know what they are… Oct 10, 2018 I recently noticed that my MacBook’s 120 GB SSD was almost full, despite having only around 78 GB of total files. I couldn’t locate any of the…
Computing Bitcoin’s Block Size Can Be Increased Without Hard Fork, Says Blockstream Co-Founder | Crypto Oct 7, 2018 Bitcoin (BTC) protocol developer Mark Friedenbach introduced a method for Bitcoin scaling he claims will not require a hard fork at a workshop in…
Computing Bitcoin ‘Breakthrough’ Claims Block Size Increase Possible Without Hard Fork | Crypto Oct 6, 2018 Some dub it a “breakthrough,” others call it a “network attack.” Those were the prevailing opinions leading up to Mark Friedenbach’s much-anticipated…
Tech and Gadget Red Dead Redemption 2 will take up vast space on your hard drive, PlayStation download reveals |… Sep 28, 2018 The vast world of Red Dead Redemption 2 will need just as vast a space on your console. The game will take up 105GB of space on the PlayStation,…
Tech Tips & Tricks How to Check if Your Hard Drive is Going to Fail | Tips & Tricks Sep 25, 2018 Finding out in advance if your hard drive is failing can save you time, money and a lot of hassle. Here are a few tools to check the health of…
Innovation Why is it so hard to detect dark matter? | Feature Tech Sep 23, 2018 For nearly a century, scientists have counted on the existence of dark matter, a non-luminous material that allows them to justify many of the…
Computing Grin Is Hard Forking Every Six Months to Keep ASICs Off the Network | Crypto Sep 16, 2018 The Grin community is trying to keep ASICs away – but only for the next two years. Best known for implementing MimbleWimble, which refactors and in…
Computing Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate on Testnet in October | Crypto Sep 15, 2018 Ethereum’s upcoming hard fork, Constantinople, will activate in a testing environment next month, core developers agreed on Friday. As detailed by…