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Posted by msmash on Friday September 14, 2018 @12:35PM from the let's-get-this-going dept. We have not run book recommendations and book discussion posts for some time. So here it goes: What's a book -- or books -- are you reading this month? Additionally, what's a book you finished recently that you found insightful, or funny, or both. (The latter request comes from a reader.) Leave your recommendation and any additional notes in the comments section below. Posted by msmash on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:34PM from the whatever-happened-here dept. for the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods, Apple has now erased all references to AirPower from its website iPhone X unveiling Apple announced AirPower -- an all-in-one wireless charger for the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods. The product never shipped, and today it seems that Apple has scrubbed almost all traces of it off its website. At the time of writing this only Apple really knows (and at the time of writing Apple hasn't responded to a request for information), it seems like the product was vaporware and that the promise of an all-in-one charger has died. I can't think off the top of my head of another product that Apple has announced at a major event and then failed to deliver, which suggests that some things are beyond the reach of even a company as powerful as. CRYPTOCURRENCY'S 80 PERCENT PLUNGE IS NOW WORSE THAN THE DOT-COM CRASH. books. As virtual currencies plumbed new depths on Wednesday, the MVIS CryptoCompare Digital As*ets 10 Index extended its collapse from a January high to 80 percent. The tumble has now surpas*ed the Nasdaq Composite Index's 78 percent peak-to-trough decline the Internet-stock boom almost two decades ago, cryptocurrency investors who bet big on a seemingly revolutionary technology are suffering a painful reality check, particularly those in many secondary tokens, so-called alt-coins. It just shows what a mas*ive, speculative bubble the whole crypto thing was -- as many of us at the time warned, said Neil Wilson,