Putin Signs Law Giving Cryptocurrency Legal Status in Russia
Russia’s bill to regulate cryptocurrencies has been signed into law by President Vladimir Putin. The new law gives legal status to cryptocurrency but prohibits its use as a means of payment. Russian Crypto Bill Signed Into Law Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law Friday the bill that regulates digital financial asset (DFA) transactions, Russian media RIA Novosti reported. It was approved by the State Duma, the lower...
The Once Mighty Pirate IPTV Platform ‘cCloud’ Announces Its Demise
When cCloud first appeared on the scene years ago, it billed itself as the ‘Popcorn Time for Live TV’. It was one of the first services that allowed users to access premium IPTV streams for free through an easy to use interface. CCloud worked by scraping third-party sources to find free streams, presenting them in a single interface that could be accessed on the web and on platforms such as Roku and Kodi. A Popular...
UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied & Paid Nothing
Mixed Martial Arts is one of the fastest growing and arguably most exciting sports in the world. At the highest level it’s dominated by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, better known as the UFC. The UFC harbors grand plans to become a global phenomenon, not just in MMA, but in sports overall. However, being a dedicated UFC fan doesn’t come cheap, requiring an $84.98 ESPN+ subscription in the US plus $64.99 for every PPV...
Do math in the Linux shell with GNU bc
Most POSIX systems come with GNU bc, an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Its syntax is similar to C, but it also supports interactive execution of statements and processing data from standard in (stdin). For that reason, it’s often the answer to the question, “How do I do math in the Linux shell?” This style of response is common online: read more Powered by...
Practice parsing text in NLP with Python
Natural language processing (NLP) is a specialized field for analysis and generation of human languages. Human languages, rightly called natural language, are highly context-sensitive and often ambiguous in order to produce a distinct meaning. (Remember the joke where the wife asks the husband to “get a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six,” so he gets six cartons of milk because they had eggs.) NLP provides the...
