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Meme coins tied to the identity of bitcoin's inventor have rallied ahead of a new documentary that could reveal their identity
The crypto community is placing bets on who could be named as the inventor of bitcoin in new HBO do…
Kelly Cloonan
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Crypto fans just celebrated the bitcoin inventor's birthday and his legend is as mysterious as ever.
Theories swirled this week that Apple visionary Steve Jobs was the legendary Satoshi Nakamoto after…
Phil Rosen
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How world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee plans to break Big Tech's chokehold on your personal data
Tim Berners-Lee's company Inrupt announced Monday that it's releasing its data management platform,…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Kanye West falsely claimed Hitler invented the microphone. Most microphones in use today are thanks to James West, a Black inventor with over 250 patents to his name.
James West invented technology that 90% of modern-day microphones use. He attended Black Panther me…
Yoonji Han
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When Measuring Internet Freedom, India Ranks Better Than China, Pakistan
Do Indians enjoy extensive freedom
online? As per the annual Web Index ranking, where countries
are…
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Google says it will pull Search out of Australia if the government doesn't back down on the media bargaining code
Google Australia’ boss has warned the company’s eponymous search engine is willing to shut out Aust…
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Web creator Tim Berners-Lee's NFT of the original source code sold for $5.4 million at auction
The NFT package auctioned at Sotheby's also contained a video and a letter from Berners-Lee about h…
Sophie Kiderlin
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The Inventors Of The Web Ad Banner All Just Admitted That It 'Sucks'
Go to Digiday to see what Andrew Anker, CEO at HotWired; Joe McCambley, creative director at Modem …
Jim Edwards
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Here's why the inventor of the Internet supports basic income
One of the hallmarks of basic income, according to its advocates, is that it's inherently fair. Reg…
Chris Weller
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The inventor responsible for smartphone cameras says selfies and cat videos were the biggest surprise
The annual prize is handed to global pioneers in engineering, and has previously been won by world …
Shona Ghosh
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Tim Berners-Lee launched his vision for an alternative web, and his timing was impeccable
"For all the good we've achieved, the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; sway…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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The Inventor Of The Twitter Hashtag Explains Why He Didn't Patent It
A patent could have given him ownership of hashtags as an HTML-activated device that allows Twitter…
Jim Edwards
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I tried $95 'sleep glasses' that are designed for watching TV or surfing the web before bed, but they also took the edge off harsh office lighting
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Owen Burke
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How this regular programmer became a 'Master Inventor' at IBM - and how you can follow in her footsteps
In 2014, IBM broke an invention record: it became the first company to earn more than 7,000 patents…
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'The web had failed instead of served humanity': Tim Berners-Lee was crushed by Russia using Facebook to meddle in the US election
It is not the first time Berners-Lee has bemoaned the events of 2016, when Russian activists allege…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The inventor of the ad blocker tells us he wrote the code as a 'procrastination project' at university - and he's never made money from it
"Funding journalism through advertising seems largely unsustainable to me. The pressure it puts on …
Lara O'Reilly
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The father of the web has persuaded Google and Facebook to sign up to his code of ethics because they're doing so much damage to his creation
World Wide Web foundation CEO Adrian Lovett told Business Insider in a call that he and Berners-Lee…
Shona Ghosh
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The man who invented the World Wide Web is joining Oxford University as a computer science professor
The dean of Christ Church, professor Martyn Percy, said in a statement: "We are delighted that Prof…
Sam Shead
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A new HBO documentary suggests bitcoin's creator is Canadian programmer Peter Todd
A new HBO documentary points to programmer Peter Todd as bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Na…