'Appy Birthday! Apple celebrates 10 years of the App Store
Apple launched the App Store on July 10, 2008 with just 500 apps, and in the 10 years since, it's grown from strength to strength

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As bitcoin values slide, high-end GPU prices drop, too

The processing power of high-end gaming cards made them ideal for cryptocurrency mining rigs and they were in hot demand when Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital token prices leaped to unprecedented heights in late 2017 and early 2018.

That trend now appears to be reversing; add-in board (AIB) prices appear to be declining and supplies increasing & following the same path down as digital token prices crash.

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"We have predicted a drop in [application specific processors] as [digital] currencies prices dropped," C. Robert Dow, manager of digital media at Jon Peddie Research, said in an email. "The cost to run the mining rigs is not insignificant, so when the price for the currencies drop, people will run rigs and choose to dump AIBs on the secondary market hoping to recover some cost."

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AppleApp Store: 10 years to change the world

Digital transformation. Artificial intelligence. The Internet of Things. The mobile workforce. Even photo libraries capable of gathering themselves into their own collections, productivity and team management enhancements via a mobile device. All of these profound changes came into effect thanks to three things:

Apple, the iPhone, and the App Store

Think what was on the big stage when Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented the first iPhone keynote. The best available device at that time was (in my opinion) the Palm Treo.

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Android P's biggest shift may be one of philosophy

As we enter the final phase in the countdown to Android P's public release, an intriguing new twist is becoming increasingly apparent: More than any Android release before it, Android P is first and foremost about Google's Android phones.

That, my friends — to put it lightly — is a pretty seismic shift.

We first got a whiff of this new reality back at the Google I/O developers' conference in May, when Google Engineering VP Dave Burke made the following disclaimer ahead of unveiling some of Android P's most prominent changes:

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VP comes to this pilot fish's office with a new mobile phone -- and a problem.

"She said, 'The email won't work,'" fish reports. "We went through the configuration for her email. Everything looked correct. I had her retype her email password and had her try connecting again. Still no luck.

"I then sent her to an area where I knew the wireless signal was very strong and asked her to try again.

"After a few minutes I went to check on her. 'Email is still not working,' she said.

"Let me have a look, I said.

"The first thing I noticed was that she was not connected to the Wi-Fi. Um, you're not connected to the Wi-Fi, I said.

"She replied, 'Why would I need to do that'

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