Category: Technologies

If you’re on AT&T and have been debating getting a new iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phone this holiday season, you may find yourself with a better deal now even though we’re well past Black Friday. The carrier has upped its promotion for new and upgrading users from $800 off a new Apple or Samsung device to up to $1,000 off, so long as you’re trading in a phone.

You’ll also need to have an unlimited plan to be eligible for the discount, which will be dished out as bill credits over the course of a 36-month installment plan.

AT&T has dabbled with offering up to $1,000 off iPhones before. Most recently, it dangled the discount around the launch of Apple’s new iPhone 14 line before scaling it back down in recent weeks to up to $800 off. For the Galaxy S22 launch in February, AT&T offered up to $800 off the new models so long as you were trading in any older Galaxy S, Galaxy Note or Galaxy Z phone, including those that were broken.

To get $1,000 off a new iPhone, the device you are trading into AT&T would need to be valued by the carrier at a minimum of $230. This includes the iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 12 line (except the 12 Mini) or iPhone 13 line; Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, S22 line, Z Fold 2 or Fold 3; Google’s Pixel 6 Pro and OnePlus’ 10 Pro.

If you have an iPhone XS Max, 11, 11 Pro or 12 Mini you could get up to $800 off. And if you’re trading in one of a variety of Android devices from Samsung (Galaxy S20 and S21 lines, Note 20 line, original Galaxy Fold or Fold 2 and the Z Flip 3 5G), Google (Pixel 5, 5A and 6) or other Android makers like OnePlus and Microsoft, you can also get up to $800 off a new phone so long as AT&T values the trade-in devices to be worth between $130 and $229.

Other devices including the iPhone 8 line, SE (second or third gen), X, XR and XS as well as a much wider range of Samsung, LG, Google, Motorola and OnePlus phones can get up to $350 off of a new phone so long as AT&T values those trade-ins to be between $35 and $129.

This deal works for the iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max though the phone that you are trading in will need to be in “good working condition.” (Read the full terms here.)

For Galaxy phones like the S22 line, Z Flip 4 and Z Fold 4 the carrier is much more lenient. Any device that the carrier values at $35 or more could make you eligible for up to $1,000 off of one of Samsung’s latest handsets. The carrier’s terms for S22 and the Z Flip and Z Fold deals also don’t specify that the phone that you are trading in has to be in “good working condition.”

In either scenario, if you leave AT&T before the 36-month installment is up — or want to unlock your phone to use internationally — you’ll be on the hook for paying off the balance of what’s owed and you’ll forfeit any outstanding credits.

All that said, it still is a surprising post-Black Friday deal from the carrier as the wireless industry at large looks to lure in upgraders and switchers this holiday season.

Verizon has been pushing its recent holiday offer of up to $1,000 off a new phone with trade-in, though that deal requires you to switch to the carrier. If you’re already on Verizon, the company is offering up to $800 off with a trade-in, though for this deal you also would need to be on one of its pricier Play More, Do More, Get More or One Unlimited plans.

Verizon similarly requires you to stay for 36 months, though it will accept even broken or damaged phones so long as they don’t have battery damage.

If you’re on T-Mobile, the carrier is offering up to $800 off Samsung Galaxy phones with trade-in, but only if you’re on or are willing to upgrade to its pricier Magenta Max plan. Those on other plans could save up to $400 with a trade-in, not as generous as AT&T or Verizon’s offers. In fact, most of T-Mobile’s deals right now seem to require adding a new line, switching over from a different carrier or bumping up to Magenta Max.

On the plus side, T-Mobile’s credits are generally over a 24-month period instead of 36 months like AT&T and Verizon so you are not tied to the carrier or a device for three years.

This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet.

Usually when I spot faces on Mars, it’s because the local rock formations resemble them. A new face on Mars, however, is the work of NASA’s Perseverance rover. The accidental artistic masterpiece is the result of two sample collection holes combined with a wheel scuff mark. Move over, Mona Lisa.

There’s a scientific explanation for what turned out to be a serendipitously goofy portrait. The two holes are where the rover picked up samples of sandy regolith — crushed up rock and dust — as part of its growing rock collection. Percy used a special drill bit to gather and stash the samples in hopes of sending them back to Earth for future study.

The wheel scuff came from a little earlier in the mission. The rover team commanded Percy to make the mark to get a look at the regolith below the surface. They liked what they saw and returned to the spot to collect the samples.

I’m not the only person who saw a face in the Martian ground after Percy got done with the sampling site. Rover engineer Daniel Zayas had a delightful interpretation, likening the shape to a Yip Yip from Sesame Street. If you need a refresher, Yip Yips are big-mouthed, googly-eyed aliens from Mars, so it couldn’t be more perfect.

Most of Percy’s samples up to this point have been drilled out of rock, so the regolith is special. Scientists would love to get a closer look at the material in a lab. “If we have a more permanent presence on Mars, we need to know how the dust and regolith will interact with our spacecraft and habitats,” Perseverance team member Erin Gibbons said in a NASA statement this week.

Gibbons had also noted the resemblance to a face, sharing another rover shot with a close-up of the “eyes” on Twitter.

The face is an excellent example of pareidolia, the human tendency to see familiar objects in random shapes. It happens all the time on Mars, with recent examples of a duck rock and a loaf-shaped cat. It’s all in good fun. We have no evidence of aliens hanging out carving Earth-shaped things into the local rocks on Mars.

While Percy’s artwork is sublime, the rover probably shouldn’t quit its day job as a mobile robotic laboratory.

BitCoinPay Trade traffic in November 2022 exceeded 500 thousand visitors. Internal statistics indicate a positive trend in the growth of web traffic with the cryptocurrency of the exchange.

Compared to September 2022, the volume of crypto exchange traffic has grown by more than 16%. The last time such a jump in traffic to the trading platform was recorded in June 2022.

Statistics take into account the traffic of both new and regular customers. Over 21% of the traffic came from new BitCoinPay Trade visitors. In second place, with a share of 25%, are visitors registered on the trading platform more than a year ago.

BitCoinPay Trade is a reliable, easy to use crypto exchange. The free BitCoinPay Trade app allows users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies for fiat money, and also provides services for storing cryptoassets.

Cryptocurrency exchange BitCoinPay Trade occupies a fairly confident position in the market. Experts talk about a fairly powerful potential and active development of the project. The platform offers powerful functionality, a user-friendly interface, a simple verification system, a wide list of supported cryptocurrencies, convenient ways to deposit and withdraw fiat money.

The app is available on iOS and Android platforms. 

Cryptocurrency data aggregator Nomics has added the BitCoinPay Trade crypto exchange to the list of analyzed trading platforms.

Now all relevant information about the trading platform is available in one place. According to Nomics data, daily trading volumes on BitCoinPay Trade exceed four million dollars. Of all the pairs available to clients, the most popular are BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT and LTC/USDT. The VERUM/USDT pair – with a daily trading volume of $376,019 – is the most promising and attractive for clients, showing the maximum growth in liquidity.

Nomics is a cryptocurrency market data provider, including exchange and crypto asset ratings. The service was launched in 2018, having received financial backing from a number of well-known investors, including Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group. It is primarily aimed at large investors and traders who want to see the true picture in the markets.

BitCoinPay Trade is a reliable, easy to use crypto exchange. The free BitCoinPay Trade app provides its clients with a wide range of supported cryptocurrencies and trading pairs, crypto assets storage services, and convenient ways to deposit and withdraw fiat money.

Verum Coin developers have launched the Verum Chain native network. Soon, any miner will be able to mine Verum Coin on-chain using the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm. In the meantime, mining has been launched in closed access.

Despite the limited access to Verum Coin mining, 6230 blocks have already been mined to date. And the current total power of all miners is 3000 MH/s.

In addition to mining, Verum Coin can be bought on regular cryptocurrency exchanges. Some of these exchanges, such as BitCoinPay Trade, allow you to buy Verum Coin with fiat currency.

The big advantage of Verum Coin is that its total supply is limited to 84 million coins, which guarantees a scarcity level that will be maintained for a long time. Analysts note that this will potentially have a positive impact on Verum Coin price growth, similar to BTC, caused by increased demand.

The Verum Coin token is one of the digital currencies that use the mechanism of increased transaction confidentiality. Analysts note that Verum Coin is a cryptocurrency focused on consistent growth in the long term and therefore worth having in your portfolio.

Public access to mining will be opened in the near future. It will be announced on Verum Coin social networks. Verum Coin also plans to open its own blockchain explorer and mining pool. The pool will include not only Verum Coin, but also other popular coins – BTC, LTC and ETC, developers announce.

Verum Messenger has significantly increased the security of their customers’ data. Now personal correspondence is even more protected.

After installing the latest update (Version 1.8.8), you can not worry that the interlocutor will record from the phone screen. Now, when you activate the screen recording function built into iOS, all information inside the application will be automatically hidden and will not be recorded.

From now Verum Messenger protects the privacy of your correspondence even more!

After activating the screen recording iOS function, all information inside the application will be automatically hidden and will not be recorded.#VerumMessenger pic.twitter.com/AeJaufXKZO

— 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐔𝐌 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 (@VerumMessenger) November 11, 2022

Recall that, while maintaining the secrecy of correspondence, Verum Messenger warns the interlocutor about taking screenshots, copying, forwarding messages and files in chats, as well as saving files to the device.

The updates also affected the creation of group chats. Now, with one click of a button, you can add all contacts to the group at once. And also it became possible to remove notifications about missed calls from the chat.

Verum Messenger is designed for maximum security and anonymity. To use the messenger, you do not need a phone number, since the application is not tied to it. Even if the phone falls into the hands of third parties, they will not be able to enter the application – on Verum you can set a passcode for each entrance, as well as protect Touch ID or Face ID data.

Verum uses end-to-end encryption for all chats without exception, does not store correspondence and files in the cloud, and does not collect user data. And, as a nice bonus, the app has a built-in VPN.

Forbes has placed Verum Coin in the section dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The Forbes Digital Assets project was launched earlier this year. According to Money Editorial Director Mike Ayers, the topic of digital assets has become one of the “most read” topics in the magazine since last year.

Therefore, the employees of the department are in constant search for new and promising crypto assets. This week, the Verum Coin has its own Forbes page.

“BitCoinPay Trade and Verum Messenger launched their Verum Coin (VERUM). Verum Coin is one of the digital currencies that use the mechanism of increased transaction confidentiality,” says the official page of Verum Coin in Forbes Digital Assets.

Analysts note that Verum Coin is a cryptocurrency focused on consistent growth in the long term and therefore worth having in your portfolio.

Verum Chain native network will be launched soon. Soon any miner will be able to mine Verum Coin in a chain based on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm.

The founding principle of Verum Messenger is privacy. The development team is tirelessly working on new ways to protect user privacy and believe that communication in the application should be as secure and private as in person. Therefore, the messenger is equipped with the most modern functions and protection tools.

Some examples of such tools are “disappearing messages” for automatically deleting conversations, “recovery key” for restoring all chats after logging out or changing devices, and a “quick account cleanup” feature that allows you to clear your messenger with one click. And personal calls and messages in Verum Messenger are protected by end-to-end encryption by default, so that other than your interlocutor, he could not listen or read them.

So that new users can easily understand all the elements of ensuring the privacy of the messenger, the developers launched the Verum Messenger Help Center. The site reveals the principles of the messenger and the subtleties of each element of protection.

The Verum Messenger team hopes that you will enjoy using the application, using various means to ensure the safety of your information and not worry about its safety.

The developers have announced a large-scale update of Verum Coin. Verum Chain network will be launched soon. It will be possible to mine Verum Coin in a chain based on the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm (PoW).

Verum Chain is designed to allow more people to mine a cryptoasset – anyone with computing hardware can become a miner.

Also a big advantage of Verum Coin is that its total supply is limited to 84 million coins, which means that the scarcity level will be maintained for a long time. Analysts note that this will potentially have a positive impact on Verum Coin price growth, caused by increased demand.

In addition to mining, you can get Verum Coin by buying it on regular cryptocurrency exchanges. Some of these exchanges, such as BitCoinPay Trade, allow you to buy Verum Coin.

The Verum Coin token is one of the digital currencies that use the mechanism of increased transaction confidentiality. Analysts note that Verum Coin is a cryptocurrency focused on consistent growth in the long term and therefore worth having in your portfolio.

The new international payment system Imperio Payment, which allows you to make transfers from abroad, transfer money to an account or a bank card, is ideal for clients and business clients.

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• an account in EUR;
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• instant received transfers;
• transfers of amounts without hidden fees;
• simple replenishment of the account;
• online currency exchange;
• multi-signature services.

Imperio Payment is a financial instrument for the modern lifestyle, safe and secure.

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