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Digital Planet: Missing crypto-currency mystery deepens

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05/03/2019 GMT

Missing crypto-currency mystery deepens

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Missing crypto-currency mystery deepens

Investigations into missing crypto-currency reveal money appears to be missing

Missing crypto-currency mystery deepens.  Also media censorship in Thailand, off grid fridges and women’s health apps.

Missing crypto-currency mystery deepens
$137m worth of crypto-cash is missing, despite the efforts of auditors to find the virtual currency. The mysterious case of Gerald Cotton, founder of the QuadrigaCX exchange, who died in India last December, has taken a new turn as auditors have found his e-wallets empty.

Media censorship in Thailand
In the run up to the country’s general election later this month, Thailand’s military-appointed parliament has been accused of clamping down on internet freedoms and even tv stations with a controversial cybersecurity law and a temporary ban of the opposition TC channel. 

Off grid fridges
Researchers have been evaluating off-grid fridges in Uganda to see what difference they’d make to business owners like shopkeepers in areas lacking reliable electricity supplies. The fridges can also be used to store medicines and vaccines that need to kept cool. Those behind the Global LEAP Off-Grid Refrigerator Competition reckon they’re the first to field test these solar powered appliances and have just released their findings. 


Women’s health apps – how safe and secure are they?.
In the past three years, 3 billion of investment has gone into women’s health technology and there has been a huge growth in health tracking apps.  There have been major concerns surrounding the sharing of this intimate data when it comes to commercial menstrual apps for women.  But could scientists use this data in research into diseases like endometriosis?
 


(Photo: Quadriga CX CEO Gerald Cotton. Credit: Stephen Hui)                                         


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