Daily Archives: January 16, 2016

Cryptocurrency OBITS Ending ‘Crowd Sale’ With Buyback, Dividend Option Adding Fiat Gateway

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In just a few weeks from now this February the first and potentially “last buyback” of fledgling cryptocurrency OBITS is expected to occur, whereby an anticipated dividend option will be possible to exercise on the world’s first decentralized financial trading platform, the de facto BitShares 2.0 platform OpenLedger. But with an imminent fiat gateway development around the corner things are poised for a further step up.

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iTunes Radio will no longer be free; only paid Apple Music subscribers will be able to access it

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Apple has announced that it will begin charging for its iTunes Radio service from this month’s end. Launched back in 2013 alongside the iOS 7 and available only in the US and Australia, the service has been free (ad-supported) all this while.

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However, that will change as starting January 29, it’ll become paid. Further, you’ll only be able to access the service – which competes with Pandora – if you’re a paid Apple Music subscriber. For those who aren’t already aware, Apple Music costs $9.99 a month.

“We are making Beats 1 the premier free broadcast from Apple and phasing out the ad-supported stations at the end of January,” the Cupertino-based company said in a statement.

“Additionally, with an Apple Music membership, listeners can access dozens of radio stations curated by our team of music experts, covering a range of genres, commercial-free with unlimited skips. The free three-month trial of Apple Music includes…

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Winter: Murmuration Season For Birds

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Throughout the northern hemisphere, the dark cold months between November and February are the time when European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, come together every evening into large flocks known as “murmurations”. Prior to settling in to their chosen communal sleeping site for the night, these birds perform a series of intricate aerial manoeuvres, where the flock repeatedly circles, and changes shape and density above their roost site for roughly half an hour each night.

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Why ‘House of Wolves’ Was Actually The Most Important ‘Destiny’ Expansion

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Welcome to another installment of “Destiny Dead Zone,” where I wax poetic about the past year and a half, because we currently exist in a time where quite literally nothing interesting is happening in the present state of the game. Sparrow racing has come and gone, we’re not even going to get a hint of what’s next until at least next week. And that will almost certainly be another relatively low key “event” rather than big new paid DLC, which we may not see at all until Destiny 2 allegedly comes out this fall.

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