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How to file your income taxes on bitcoin in 2018 - The Verge Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been a turbulent year for bitcoin, and now it’s time to talk about taxes. Most people who held on to bitcoin over… January 29, 2018 at 08:41AM http://ift.tt/2Gro21q

Bad Science Underlies EPA's Air Pollution Program - Scientific American Doubts have been raised about EPA measures of petrochemical refinery emissions in Houston. Credit: F. Carter Smith Getty Images Engineer Jim Southerland was… January 29, 2018 at 08:40AM http://ift.tt/2Eiyurc

5 ways the ‘supermaterial’ graphene could transform the tech around us We’ve been writing about graphene and its potential for years now , but this year at MWC in Barcelona we went hands-on with a number of prototype devices that… January 28, 2018 at 06:02PM http://ift.tt/2BAzST0

Other cities ignore Paris floods at their peril Jeffrey H. Jackson is associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and author of " Paris Under Water ," the story of the 1910 flood… January 28, 2018 at 05:53PM http://ift.tt/2nhjodw

Scientists are closer to making artificial brains that operate like ours do Artificial Intelligence by on January 28, 2018 488 Creative Commons The Missing Piece A new superconducting switch could soon enable computers to make decisions… January 28, 2018 at 05:36PM http://ift.tt/2DVGot2

Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases GPS Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities @alexhern First published on Sun 28 Jan 2018 12.46 EST… January 28, 2018 at 05:23PM http://ift.tt/2Gsl4cT

Brit dad held at gunpoint and forced to hand over Bitcoin fortune Armed robbers burst into a city trader’s home and forced him at gunpoint to hand over a fortune in the virtual currency Bitcoin . Danny Aston, 30, and partner… January 28, 2018 at 05:06PM http://ift.tt/2BzMxWD