New method extracts gold from liquid waste
The next gold rush might take place in our sewers.

New research from the Journal of the American Chemical Society has uncovered one of the most effective methods to date to extract gold from liquids. That includes electronic waste, sewage, ocean water, waste water—almost any liquid where we might find gold. Just to highlight how potentially useful this is, sewage from Switzerland alone is estimated to carry away 1.8 million dollars' worth of gold every year.

My question is… if the store of value property of gold is diminished then what do we use as the de facto store of value? (maybe Bitcoin?)

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HODL has become an acronym (or even backronym) for “hold on for dear life”, meaning that even when investors are in the deep red with their cryptos, they should not buckle under pressure and sell, driven by the belief that they will, ultimately, reap great rewards, once mass adoption has been achieved.

While crypto-geeks reference it as “hold on for dear life” it was originally nothing more than a whiskey-fuelled rant on the Bitcoin Forum by someone calling themselves GameKyuubi. But hey, memes be memes!

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Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling
Communicate with the ones that matter with Portal from Facebook, the voice activated smart camera with touch screen display. Complete with hands-free video calling, content sharing, and a best-in-class audio speaker.

Facebook announced their new Portal smart video calling device, complete with Alexa built-in, to help reinvent video chatting… but with their privacy track record, is this something you want? I realize now is the time for product announcements but…doing so hot off the news of a massive user-data breach seems like odd timing.

The Portal comes in two configurations: a $200 model with a 10.1-inch 720p display, and the pricier $350 Portal+, which features a larger 15.6-inch 1080p display that can rotate between portrait and landscape view. The more expensive version also sports an extra subwoofer that should result in better bass, but aside from that, both share similar specs including quad mics and a front-facing, 12-MP camera with an 8x zoom.

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Hundreds of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, a mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar), emerges as the only one who can stop London — now a giant, predator city on wheels — from devouring everything in its path. Feral, and fiercely driven by the memory of her mother, Hester joins forces with Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan), an outcast from London, along with Anna Fang (Jihae), a dangerous outlaw with a bounty on her head.

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