iPhone 12 Pro Max has been dubbed the best iPhone to buy by Consumer Reports in its list of Best Smartphones of 2021. Consumer Reports is a non-profit organisation that tests various products to make it easier for consumers to decide what to spend their money on. In its latest report, the organisation has landed on the most expensive variant in the iPhone 12 series to be the best overall iPhone model. Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra takes the title of best Android phone for 2021.

The report shares a list of smartphone models that stand at the top of verticals like Best iPhone, Best Android Phone, Best Budget Phone, and Best Phone for All-Day Battery Life. iPhone 12 Pro Max has been awarded the title of best iPhone thanks to its longer battery life, better cameras, ... Read more »

Windows XP: This used to be the best, most popular, and most acclaimed system in the history of Microsoft. Although the XP system has very low requirements for computer configuration, basically all computers now support the installation of this system. It is too old. In April-May 2014, Microsoft officially stopped providing technical support and vulnerability patch updates for the XP system, and XP was basically eliminated. And 32-bit XP does not support 4GB of memory, does not support AHCI hard disk mode, does not support Direct10 or Direct11, and there are many that do not support it, which is not listed here, so it is definitely not recommended. (But for computers with very low configuration and very old, installing XP is still a very practical choice, because after all, the XP system occupies very low memory, which can ensure that these low-configuration old computers ru ... Read more »

Cryptocurrency forks of various types now take place on a regular basis. Even bitcoin has experienced several different iterations and branches in this way. One of the largest and most discussed bitcoin forks took place late in 2017.

Bitcoin gold was a hard fork of the original open source cryptocurrency which took place on October 24, 2017. While hard forks take place for a number of reasons – including for the purposes of scaling as a cryptocurrency customer base grows, or because of developer conflict and differences of goals – bitcoin gold's stated purpose has been to "make bitcoin decentralized again."

On the surface, the idea of "making bitcoin decentralized again" may seem counterintuitive. Bitcoin ... Read more »

These days, everyone entering the world of mining cryptocurrencies will have to compete with big companies and their mining farms. So, naturally, one of the first decisions that every aspiring miner has to make is whether to go solo or join a ‘pool’.

Pooled mining is a mining approach where multiple users contribute their computing power to the generation of the block. A pool has a much bigger chance of solving a block and getting a reward, although that reward will be split between the members according to the contributed processing power. So, joining a pool might create a steady stream of income, even though each payment will be quite modest compared to a full block reward.

Joining a pool works just like signing up to to any other web servi ... Read more »