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The Halvening means that bitcoin mining rewards just dropped by 50 percent

Publié: juillet 10, 2016, 2:54pm CEST par Mark Wilson

It just became significantly harder to mine Bitcoins. The halving event rolled around yesterday, July 9, and means that the reward for mining just dropped by 50 percent. The cryptocurrency is generated by machines around the world 'mining' for new bitcoins. Rewards of bitcoins are handed out for giving over computing power to process bitcoin transactions. It's a very, very slow way to make money -- and it just got a whole lot slower. While there were previously 25 bitcoins (around $16,000) available globally to miners every 10 minutes, the figure is now just 12.5 bitcoins. But what does this… [Continue Reading]
Monitor your PC’s RAM use with Memory History Tool

Publié: juillet 10, 2016, 12:48pm CEST par Mike Williams

Just about every memory optimizer around claims that freeing up RAM will speed up your PC, but this isn't necessarily true. It all depends on how your RAM is currently being used. Memory History Tool logs the processes using your RAM and maintains a history of the main memory hogs, helping you understand where your resources are going. The program isn't intrusive in any way. There’s no installation required, no kernel drivers or other low-level tweakery, just a single executable which you run as an administrator when required. The initial console displays some basic system details: total and available RAM,… [Continue Reading]
PostGhost, the Twitter verified user tweet archive, is killed by cease and desist order

Publié: juillet 10, 2016, 12:53am CEST par Mark Wilson

PostGhost, the website that describes itself as "an archive of public tweets deleted by politicians, celebrities, and other public figures" has been shut down by Twitter. The website was told that its display of deleted tweets was a violation of the Developer Agreement and Policy. The site was a relative newcomer, having only been active for less than a week. Political tweets archive Politwoops almost met a similar fate, but the distinction with PostGhost is that it was only concerned with tweets from verified users with 10,000 followers or more -- a group that includes politicians, writers, singers, and other… [Continue Reading]
Bug fixes aplenty in surprise Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14385 release

Publié: juillet 10, 2016, 12:44am CEST par Mark Wilson

It might be the weekend, but the code monkeys at Microsoft doesn’t let a small detail like that stand in the way of work. The release of Windows 10 Anniversary Update is now within spitting distance, and the Insider builds are being pushed out thick and fast. Today Dona Sarkar announced the launch of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14385 for PC and Mobile. As we're so close to launch day, it should come as no surprise that this is a bug fix release -- but there are plenty of them. There are also some extra performance tweaks thrown in… [Continue Reading]