{"id":2475,"date":"2018-10-23T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:51:57","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-october-21st-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-october-21st-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 October 21st, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>HTC launches its blockchain-focused phone, but you can only buy it in cryptocurrency &#8211; CNBC | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/10\/23\/htc-launches-blockchain-phone-exodus-1-to-be-sold-in-cryptocurrency.html\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>Dyson chooses Singapore for new electric car plant &#8211; BBC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-45950377\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>NASA brings a Hubble gyro back to life after a seven-year hibernation &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/10\/hubble-space-telescope-expected-to-resume-normal-science-operations-soon\/\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>Google Play Movies upgrades SD\/HD purchases to 4K for free &#8211; 9to5Google | <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2018\/10\/23\/google-play-movies-4k-sd-hd-upgrade\/\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>Intel denies report claiming that it &#8220;killed off&#8221; its 10-nm process &#8211; The Tech Report | <a href=\"https:\/\/techreport.com\/news\/34197\/intel-denies-report-claiming-that-it-killed-off-its-10-nm-process\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>Amazon joins $50 million investment in European Nest rival Tado | VentureBeat | <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/10\/25\/amazon-joins-50-million-investment-in-european-nest-rival-tado\/\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament &#8211; BBC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45965605\">Link<\/a><\/li><li>Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 slider debuts with 6.4\u201d screen, four cameras and 5G version &#8211; GSMArena.com news| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/xiaomi_mi_mix_3_official-news-33901.php\">Link<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-embed-aspect-16-9\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odG2GX4_cUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC launches its blockchain-focused phone, but you can only buy it in cryptocurrency &#8211; CNBC | Link Dyson chooses Singapore for new electric car plant &#8211; BBC News | Link NASA brings a Hubble gyro back to life after a seven-year hibernation &#8211; Ars Technica | Link Google Play Movies upgrades SD\/HD purchases to 4K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}