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Virgin Galactic to launch Richard Branson on July 11, aiming to beat Jeff Bezos to space. Virgin Galactic announced on Thursday that the space tourism company will attempt to launch its next test spaceflight on July 11, carrying founder Sir Richard Branson. (CNBC)
Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas, and more. Twitter has a history of sharing feature and design ideas it's considering at very early stages of development. Earlier this month, for example, it showed off concepts around a potential “unmention” feature that would let users untag… (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
Robbing the Xbox Vault: inside a $10 million gift card fraud. The Xbox gift card came with a string of 25 letters and numbers. The digits, known as a 5x5 code, were sent in an email, but they were no different from the numbers and letters etched onto the gift cards hanging off tall racks near the checkout aisle at CVS or Target, arrayed in a Rubik’s Cube of colors. (Austin Carr via Bloomberg)
Russian Hackers Are Trying to Brute-Force Hundreds of Networks. The discovery of Russia's devastating SolarWinds spy campaign put the spotlight on the sophisticated supply chain hijacking techniques of Moscow's foreign intelligence hackers. (Andy Greenberg via WIRED)
J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Preliminary Signs of Protecting Against Delta Variant. Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine showed promising signs in a small laboratory study of protecting against the Delta variant spreading across the U.S. and other countries, the company said. (Laura Cooper via Wall Street Journal)
JPMorgan Says Ethereum Upgrades Could Jumpstart $40 Billion Staking Industry. Flying in the face of crypto skeptic, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, two senior analysts at his firm argued in a report this week that as blockchains running more energy-efficient networks than bitcoin and ethereum increase in popularity, a new way to make money, called staking, will gain traction as a source of revenue for institutional and retail investors alike. (Emily Mason via Forbes)
Venezuela to Cut Six Zeroes Off Bolivar to Simplify Transactions. Central bank may print new bills in August: people familiar Inflation remains high, though dollarization has slowed gains Venezuela is preparing to once again lop off zeroes from the national currency in an attempt to simplify daily transactions…(Patricia Laya via Bloomberg)
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