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Block’s Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments

Late last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down from his position in order to give his full attention to his other company, Square (now called Block), which had become increasingly invested in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency — just like Dorsey himself. Now we’re starting to see the results of Block’s embrace of crypto, as […]

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Block releases Bitkey hardware wallet to 95 countries… kinda

Jack Dorsey’s Block (the company formerly known as Square) announced today that it is releasing its hardware Bitcoin wallet, Bitkey, in 95 countries. However, users can only preorder the device at the moment, with shipping starting in early 2024. The device will cost $150 USD. Block’s pitch to Bitcoin holders is that using a self-custodial […]

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Block lets Square merchants convert a part of their daily sales to bitcoin

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and other services, announced a new program today allowing merchants using Square’s solutions to convert a percentage of their daily sales to bitcoin. The feature, rolling out in the U.S. starting today, will transfer 1-10% of Square sellers’ daily sales to their personal Cash App account. This amount […]

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Local economy, Local Investment Solutions with Geospacial Economic Modelling - 25 Jun

Unique granular modelling of over 2,000 locations across Australia uncover how fragmented and concentrated our economy is.




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Small Business can unlock big growth with the internet: PwC & Google report - 17 Aug

Australian small businesses can unlock an additional $49.2 billion in output over the next ten years by making better use of existing technology, PwC analysis commissioned by Google released today shows.




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Boomer businesses blocking next gen's digital ambitions - 12 Apr

Australia's next generation of family business leaders is more confident and better prepared for senior roles than two years ago, but is also experiencing more challenges, both inside the firm and in the wider business landscape.




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Apple’s geoblocks on media services in EU draw consumer protection ire

Apple’s pile of regulatory woes in the European Union has ticked up again: The iPhone maker is being accused of unlawfully discriminating against consumers by applying restrictions on how several of its media services can be accessed around the bloc. Consumer protection authorities in three EU Member States have been investigating the geoblocking measures (access […]

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Watch: Police Killing of Amir Locke Sparks Protests in Minneapolis

Demonstrators marched in Minneapolis over the weekend to protest the fatal police shooting of Amir Locke, a Black man who was killed last week when police executed a no-knock search warrant. Photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images




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Watch: Boris Johnson Apologizes for Attending Party During Covid-19 Lockdown

During a session of Parliament, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized for attending a party on Downing Street in 2020 while strict Covid-19 lockdown measures were in place. Johnson said he believed it was a “work event.” Photo: PRU/AFP via Getty Images




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‘Clock’s Ticking’: Tiger Woods Casts Doubt on Return to Pro Golf

Tiger Woods cast serious doubt on his competitive golf future in his first press conference since a life-threatening February car crash, saying that his ability to compete will never be the same after the devastating leg injuries. Photo: Doug Ferguson/Associated Press




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NFTs, Crypto Wallets and More Explained by Putting My Son's Art on the Blockchain

Do terms like “nonfungible token,” “minting,” and “gas fees” sound like a foreign language to you? To better understand it -- and explain it -- WSJ’s Joanna Stern turned her son’s art into an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. Photo illustration: Jacob Reynolds




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Truecaller Gets Automatic Spam Call Blocking Feature on iPhone: Exclusive to Premium Subscribers

Truecaller has recently announced an update for iPhone users that brings an Auto-block spam feature, a significant addition that has been available to Android users for some time. This feature, exclusive to Truecaller Premium subscribers, automatically declines calls identified as spam,




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Unlock Your Creativity: Enter OnePlus AI Music Studio Contest for a Chance to Win Exciting Prizes

OnePlus has introduced the OnePlus AI Music Studio, tapping into the growing popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This tool enables users in India and global markets to effortlessly create music and music videos using simple commands. Notably, ownership of




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Garena Free Fire Max Redeem Codes for November 6, 2024: Unlock Exclusive In-Game Rewards

Redeem Codes for Garena Free Fire Max on November 6, 2024: Gain an advantage over your opponents or enhance your character's appearance with these codes, offering in-game items for free. Acquire weapons, skins, diamonds, and more through these codes. Garena Free




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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Smart Home with Essential Voice Commands

In the age of smart homes, voice assistants have become indispensable. These devices offer convenience and efficiency, transforming how we interact with technology. For tech enthusiasts in India, mastering voice commands can unlock the full potential of smart home devices. This




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MSMEs in Dakshina Kannada strive exemption from the lockdown restraints

The Kanara Industries Association (KIA) headquartered in Mangaluru, formerly identified as the Kanara Small Industries Association, has requested the Dakshina Kannada district administration to exclude MSMEs in the area from the prohibitions on lockdown. Ajith Kamath, KIA President stated MSMEs in




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Canada's Labour Minister Orders Binding Arbitration to End Port Lockouts in Vancouver and Montreal

Canada's Labour Minister intervenes to end port lockouts, directing binding arbitration to resume operations at Vancouver and Montreal ports.




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Elon Musk Confirms Significant Changes To X Block Button, Increasing Visibility Of Public Posts

X, formerly Twitter, is set to modify its block button, as confirmed by CEO Elon Musk. In a recent post, Musk stated that public posts will be visible to everyone, even those who have been blocked. Nima Owji initially reported this




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Privacy in Peril? X Rolling Out New Block Feature That Lets Blocked Users View Profiles

X, the platform once known as Twitter, recently began rolling out a new version of its block function, prompting significant user concern. The change, first announced by company owner Elon Musk in September, allows blocked users to view the profiles, posts,




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Apple Expands Find My Network for Travelers with New Share Item Location Feature in iOS 18.2 Beta

Apple has introduced a new tool within its Find My ecosystem aimed at improving how users track their belongings, especially when traveling. The “Share Item Location” feature allows users to share the location of accessories, such as items tagged with an




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Unlock the Glow! 7 Essential Steps to Flaunt Flawless Skin Every Day

Flaunting flawless skin can seem like an impossible task but with beauty essentials and a regimen, achieving radiant skin is possible! From cleansing to hydrating, this skincare guide outlines the necessary procedures to help you show off radiant skin every day!




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Unlocking Bollywood-Worthy Hair Secrets! 5 DIY Masks For Healthy And Luscious Locks

Your mane matters! Healthy, happy hair denotes your priorities towards self-care. Bollywood beauties including Ananya Panday, Janhvi Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, and others understand this must-do beauty ritual and ensure to keep their locks in the finest condition. Now, these celebs may




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Unlock Winter Glow! Follow These 6 Skincare Rules For Radiant Skin

As winter draws near, the cold weather demands a change in skin care practices. Low humidity and lower temperatures can dehydrate the skin, making it flaky, dry, and occasionally irritated. These six crucial skin care guidelines can help you maintain radiant,




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Give Mirror-Like Shine To Your Locks! A Simple Guide To Embracing The Glass Hair Trend

The ultra-smooth, shiny finish of "glass hair," which gives tresses a liquid-like lustre, has contributed to making become modern beauty mainstay. It takes beyond just a correct shampoo to achieve this look; it also calls for meticulous planning, the appropriate ingredients,




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How Couples Can Fight Without Fighting : Unlock Secret To Conflict That Brings You Closer, Not Apart

Every good partnership has its highs and lows. Think of it like learning to dance. Sometimes you're in perfect sync, and at other times you stumble over each other's feet. It's all part of figuring out how to move together. Relationships




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Integrated scanning electrochemical cell microscopy platform with local electrochemical impedance spectroscopy using a preamplifier

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00122B, Paper
Ancheng Wang, Rong Jin, Dechen Jiang
An integrated SECCM with LEIS is established by combining the preamplifier based EIS measurement with scanning electrochemical cell microscopy.
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Adsorption and vibrational spectroscopy of CO on the surface of MgO from periodic local coupled-cluster theory

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,628-640
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00041B, Paper
Open Access
Hong-Zhou Ye, Timothy C. Berkelbach
Local correlation allows accurate periodic CCSD(T) calculations to be efficiently performed for molecules on realistic surfaces with large basis sets, yielding accurate adsorption energies and vibrational frequencies.
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Pakistan: 20 killed, 46 injured in explosion at Quetta railway station in Balochistan

At least 20 people were killed, and 46 others were injured after an explosion occurred at the Quetta Railway Station in Pakistan's Balochistan on Saturday, i.e., November 9.




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AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal to relocate to party's RS MP Ashok Mittal's residence in Delhi

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Supremo Arvind Kejriwal will relocate to a bungalow at 5, Ferozshah Road, Delhi, which is currently allotted to the party's Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Mittal, the party has conformed.




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Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora : decolonizing the gaze, locating subjectivity [Electronic book] / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.




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Das Wissen der Einwanderungsgesellschaft : Migration und Bildung in Deutschland 1945-2000 [Electronic book] / Stephanie Zloch.

Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, 2023.




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Translocal Care across Kosovo's Borders : Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines [Electronic book] / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits.

New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2023]




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The Train Journey : Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust [Electronic book] / Simone Gigliotti.

New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]




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Thinking the photobook : a practical guide [Electronic book] / Bettina Lockemann.

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, [2022]




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Popol vuh : the Mayan book of the dawn of life [Electronic book] / translated by Dennis Tedlock ; with commentary based upon the ancient knowledge of the modern Quiché Maya.

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Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania : Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface [Electronic book] / Antonio Allegretti.

Winwick, Cambs. : The White Horse Press, 2022.




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Localizing global sport for development [Electronic book] / Iain Lindsey, Tess Kay, Ruth Jeanes, Davies Banda.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]




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Gerry & Sewell: A Purely Belter Adventure : Adapted from the novel The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tulloch [Electronic book] / Jamie Alexander Eastlake.

London : Methuen Drama, 2022.




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Environmental NGOs in world politics : linking the local and the global [Electronic book] / Thomas Princen and Matthias Finger ; with contributions by Jack P. Manno and Margaret L. Clark.

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.




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Balkan holocausts? [Electronic book] / David Bruce MacDonald.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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Self-assembly of rod–coil–rod block copolymers in a coil-selective solvent: coarse-grained simulation results

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3131-3142
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00251B, Paper
Chiraz Toujani, Luis A. Padilla, Nour Alhraki, Su-Mi Hur, Abelardo Ramírez-Hernández
Parameters that govern the self assembly of a symmetric triblock copolymer.
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Temperature dependence of micelle shape transitions in copolymer solutions: the role of inter-block incompatibility

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00331D, Paper
Open Access
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M. J. Greenall, M. J. Derry
The incompatibility of the blocks in a copolymer strongly affects the temperature dependence of the micelle shape transitions in solution.
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Lock-Key Microfluidics: Simulating Nematic Colloid Advection along Wavy-Walled Channels

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01536J, Paper
Open Access
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Karolina Wamsler, Louise C Head, Tyler Nathan Shendruk
Liquid crystalline media mediate interactions between suspended particles and confining geometries, which not only has potential to guide patterning and bottom-up colloidal assembly, but can also control colloidal migration in...
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Slide electrification of drops at low velocities

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3349-3358
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00019F, Paper
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Chirag Hinduja, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Rüdiger Berger
The novelty of our electro drop friction force instrument (eDoFFI) is the simultaneous measurements of the drop discharging current and friction force acting on the sliding drops. With eDOFFI, we measure the surface charge density deposited behind sliding drops.
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Two-state nanocomposite based on symmetric diblock copolymer and planar nanoparticles: mesoscopic simulation

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, 9,409-422
DOI: 10.1039/D3ME00176H, Paper
Maxim Malyshev, Daria Guseva, Pavel Komarov
A method for controlling the distribution and orientation of 2D fillers in the copolymer matrix is presented.
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Expanding the poly(2-oxazoline) block copolymer possibilities through nitroxide mediated polymerisation

Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4416-4424
DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00887A, Paper
Open Access
James Lefley, C. Remzi Becer
In recent years, poly(2-oxazoline)s (POx) have become a sought-after biomaterial to replace PEG. Endcapping POx with BlocBuilder MA enables copolymerization with a variety of vinylic monomers, producing unique POx-vinyl block copolymer combinations.
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Polyols from cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL): corner-stone building blocks for cutting-edge bio-based additives and polymers

Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4375-4415
DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00851K, Review Article
Open Access
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Emilie Rojtman, Maxinne Denis, Camille Sirvent, Vincent Lapinte, Sylvain Caillol, Benoit Briou
From CNSL to polyols.
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Effect of interfacial local conformation of polymer chains on adhesion strength

Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4425-4432
DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00951G, Paper
Open Access
Tatsuki Abe, Satoru Yamamoto, Keiji Tanaka
The aggregation states of polymer chains at solid interfaces are strongly related to their adhesion properties.
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Solvent quality shape control in continuous flow block copolymer self-assembly

Polym. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4PY01174K, Communication
Axel-Laurenz Buckinx, Lakshani J. Weerarathna, Anna Sokolova, Tanja Junkers
The influence of solvent quality on block copolymer self assembly is studied in detail using SANS online monitoring.
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