Imagine being told that your salary was going to be cut in half. Well, that’s what’s soon going to happen to those who make money from bitcoin mining, the process of earning the online currency Bitcoin. The current expected date for this
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In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association has had to deny that it threatened to cancel its 2017 All-Star Game over a new
Which is the best African country for citizens to live in? A recently developed barometer has measured just that. The Good African Society Index, published in 2015, measures the quality of society in African states, exploring how
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