ne of the biggest moments in cryptocurrency history has finally come to pass – yes, the Ethereum blockchain has finished its much-anticipated “merge” to a more eco-friendly platform.
In essence, it now means the amount of energy needed to create ether tokens is 99 percent less due after it dropped the need for highly power-intensive bitcoin-style mining techniques.
But all this didn’t do much for the value of ether, with one token dropping by over half a percent on the dollar after markets opened.
Have you heard of Puffling? If you don’t know, it’s a baby puffin. But in a town called Heimaey in the Westmann Islands, off Iceland’s south coast, it’s what’s known as Puffling season! The little gray-and-white birds need help when it comes to flying the nest.
Tech & Science Daily spoke to Kyana Sue Powers, a content creator from America living in Iceland, who explains how the whole town gathers to help rescue the puffins which fell from the Volcano, mistaking the town’s lights for moonlight.
The townspeople try their best to save as many pufflings as possible
/ Kyana Sue PowersKyana has been documenting videos of the experience on her social media.
There have been more than 200 reports of a mysterious “fireball” crossing the night sky over Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The network said it is “investigating to ascertain what the object was – meteor or space debris”, adding that most reports had come from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
If you didn’t get a good night’s sleep last night, well a study is linking artificial blue light from LEDs and a restless kip. It’s being claimed that some of William Shakespeare’s plays may have been co-written with another author, after computer analysis was used to scan the Bard’s works. Going greener: Patagonia owner sells and transfers the outdoor-wear company to a non-profit trust instead of selling up. And, a droid, a drone and a human walk into a bar…Robot ‘laughs at jokes’.
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