After an extended, troubled production with a very public change of directors, the untitled Han Solo movie has wrapped — and it’s no longer untitled.

Director Ron Howard, who took over in June from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, announced the title on Twitter: It’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.

(I’m not going to say I called it, but I called it.) 

Here’s Howard making the announcement via Twitter:

Solo, which was shot at Pinewood Studios near London, had a low key and somewhat premature wrap party October 7, Mashable learned. Afterwards, more than one crew member said they still had a week of work left ahead of them. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | It's official: the Han Solo movie is finished and has a name

You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin, that digital currency and payment system created by a mysterious inventor nearly 10 years ago that eliminates the need for middlemen, i.e. banks, in transactions. But unless you’re deeply embedded in the fields of coding, finance, and/or mathematics, you’re probably not as familiar with Ethereum — and that’s a shame.

Ethereum in its most basic sense is an open-source platform based on blockchain (distributed ledger) technology that can be used to build decentralized applications, according to the Blockgeeks training platform. Sound similar to Bitcoin? It is — well, sort of.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Move over, Bitcoin: Ethereum is the next big thing in cryptocurrency

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a grand 10-year plan last year for his social networking giant. But another business leader is swooping in with something far greater: a 300-year plan. 

His name is Masayoshi Son, and he’s the man behind a $100 billion venture fund that has been singularly changing the tech industry—and there’s reports he’s raising a second venture capital fund.

Son is the founder and CEO of Japan’s SoftBank, a gigantic conglomerate with ownership of companies in just about every industry with even a tangential relationship to technology. He said last year he wants to be the tech industry’s Warren Buffett and form “partnerships with the most superior companies,” according to the company’s vision. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | One man, a 300-year plan, and billions of dollars are reshaping tech as we know it