2022-9-26 14:40 |
The No. 46-ranked school started the first joint university-industry research lab. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
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Asia dominates the global blockchain research landscape in 2022. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:48 | |
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A blockchain project to support African farmers is one of the highlights of the blockchain research projects at the No. 49-ranked school. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:41 | |
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Blockchain research papers have received more than 3,000 citations for the scholars at Australia's No. 45-ranked school. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:40 | |
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A high number of citations on the blockchain research papers propelled this school to No. 44. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:39 | |
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The oldest private research university in the Golden State leverages industry partnerships to land at the No. 43 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:39 | |
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With a $2 billion annual budget, the only Japanese school supports blockchain research and industry partnership to land the No. 40 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:38 | |
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Industry partnerships and two blockchain research centers propels Cyprus' top university to No. 39. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:37 | |
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The near-mythical birthplace of the computer age, this elite Northern California school jumped up three spots to No. 8 on the strength of its blockchain research center. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:35 | |
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A $6M grant sets this Ivy League school – ranked No. 34 – on a path to accelerate its research in blockchain systems and privacy. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:34 | |
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Ranked No. 33, Politecnico di Milano’s Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Observatory puts one of Italy’s best universities at the forefront of cutting-edge industry research in the Mediterranean. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:33 | |
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Australia's largest university features a blockchain research center that has built several protocols, landing the school at the No. 29 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:31 | |
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An integration of university research with industry collaboration sets the No. 28-ranked school apart. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:31 | |
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The oldest university in the English-speaking world lands at the No. 26 spot on the strength of its research. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:30 | |
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Evan Ratliff, the author of the book The Mastermind, shares his research on Paul Le Roux, who he believes could be the man behind Bitcoin. Ratliff has pieced together the evidence but admits he fits a story into a narrative, conceding that Satoshi Nakamoto is probably someone else entirely.
2021-4-22 03:00 | |
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Venezuela’s peer-to-peer bitcoin activity has been extraordinary, whether measured as an absolute or relative to GDP, according to CoinDesk Research data.
2020-11-12 23:42 | |
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The central bank of the Philippines, otherwise known as Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), expresses its interest in launching its own central bank digital currency (CBDC). In a story first covered on Bloomberg, the governor of BSP, Benjamin Diokno, stated the country had formed a research committee on the possible launch of digital currency. The […]
2020-7-30 21:21 | |
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Research by Jesus Rodriguez and Lucas Outumuro of IntoTheBlock Derivatives are becoming an important element of the crypto markets. With more exchanges introducing products such as futures, perpetual swaps or options, the influence of derivatives in crypto markets has been increasing linearly.
2020-3-1 02:05 | |
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The frightening fall of Bitcoin does not stop. Coinstelegram Research timely warned the community and the readers in some articles: Bankers take crypto community Alibaba turns away End of the Story A further fall is inevitable, as a panic sale has already begun.
2019-11-25 13:52 | |
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A new study suggests that “gaming disorder” — recently added to the International Classification of Diseases — may not be a real thing. At the very least, the researchers think there’s “no evidence” to suggest that the games themselves are the problem.
2019-10-22 21:31 | |
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A team of researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre have developed a method for creating a sort of ‘super mouse’ that’s slimmer, cancer resistant, and lives 25% longer than regular mice.
2019-10-22 00:11 | |
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Welcome to the Mariana Trench of uncanny valleys. A team of researchers led by engineer Marc Teyssier recently developed a ‘human skin’ interface that allows you to control your phone by stroking, pinching, and tickling its fleshy backside.
2019-10-22 22:00 | |
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It seems that people are finally waking up to the threat of climate change. The most poignant sign of this for me was seeing an infographic I created adorning the main music stage at Reading Festival 2019.
2019-10-19 20:00 | |
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Nintendo today released sales figures for the Switch, and it should really not come as a huge surprise to know that it’s surpassed 15 million units sold in North America alone. That means Nintendo’s hybrid console is dominating its two main competitors, the PS4 and the Xbox One.
2019-10-18 02:38 | |
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The main worries surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its future is how one day, it’ll prove to be the biggest job-killing technology of all-time, or worse even, the autonomous bots will group together and wipe out the human race completely.
2019-10-17 12:46 | |
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The Mayflower set sail from England in 1620 carrying approximately 130 Pilgrims across the Atlantic ocean to The New World. Next year, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of that voyage, a new ‘Mayflower’ will set sail on the same course.
2019-10-17 23:12 | |
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A well-established botnet and malware agent is now engaged in a new large-scale sextortion campaign by acting as a spambot to target innocent recipients. According to Check Point Research, the creators of the Phorpiex (aka Trik) botnet added this revenue generation ability to trick victims into transferring more than 11BTC (~$89,370) to the threat actors’ wallets over the course of five months.
2019-10-16 16:00 | |
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Bad actors are increasingly using more advanced methods to generate fake news and fool readers into thinking they are legitimate. AI-based text generators, including OpenAI’s GPT-2 model, which try and imitate human writers play a big part in this.
2019-10-15 17:18 | |
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Security researchers have reportedly uncovered another attack from a North Korea-linked hacking group. But on closer inspection it seems to be nothing more than a rehash of the group’s previous exploits.
2019-10-14 17:25 | |
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I can still remember the horror of discovering that everything I had worked on was wrong. I was a PhD candidate just starting my second year, and my supervisor and I had developed a test for rheumatoid arthritis which seemed a revelation.
2019-10-14 21:00 | |
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A study by Pew Research Center shows that few American’s have the expertise to effectively protect themselves online. Most adults, for example, can answer questions about phishing scams or website cookies, but few (28 percent) can identify examples of two-factor authentication.
2019-10-10 03:00 | |
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It used to be that tying someone’s shoes together was a nasty prank, but now it’s a performance-enhancing feat of bio-mechanical engineering. A team of researchers and engineers at Stanford University have developed a radical new method to increase the running efficiency of humans: they put a rubber band between a pair of shoes.
2019-10-10 23:57 | |
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Healthcare providers are facing an unprecedented level of social engineering-driven malware threats, according to new research. The findings — disclosed by California-based enterprise security solutions provider Proofpoint US — discovered at least 77 percent of email attacks on the medical sector during the first three months of 2019 involved the use of malicious links.
2019-10-9 19:00 | |
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Last week, Activision released the much-awaited Call of Duty Mobile on Android and iOS in partnership with the Chinese tech giant Tencent. The new battle royale game seems to be an instant hit as it has already crossed 100 million downloads, according to a report by app research firm SensorTower.
2019-10-9 13:24 | |
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The US city of Atlanta, Georgia alleged last week that contractors working on behalf of Google used confusing, aggressive tactics to exploit black people in order to obtain their likeness for facial recognition AI research.
2019-10-9 02:49 | |
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Widespread antibiotic use is largely to blame for the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which is currently one of the biggest threats to global health. Not only does antibiotic resistance already cause an estimated 700,000 deaths a year, it’s also made numerous infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, and gonorrhea, harder to treat.
2019-10-8 16:39 | |
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In the UK, approximately one in four people experience mental health issues, according to the mental health charity Mind. Although illnesses including anxiety and depression aren’t a new phenomenon, research proves that mental health issues are at an all time high — and national health services, like the NHS, are struggling to keep up with the growing need for more accessible resources.
2019-10-7 14:09 | |
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Researchers have revealed a previously undocumented threat actor of Chinese origin that has run at least six different cyber espionage campaigns in the Southeast Asian region since 2013. The research — disclosed by Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team Unit 42 — linked the attacks to a group (or groups) it called PKPLUG, named after its tactic of delivering PlugX malware inside ZIP files, which are identified with the signature “PK.
2019-10-4 15:23 | |
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A threat group responsible for a series of malware-based espionage attacks in Singapore and Cambodia has been increasingly targeting the Southeast Asian government sector to steal confidential data, new research indicates.
2019-10-2 15:08 | |
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Threat actors have exploited “obscure” bugs in WebKit and Chrome browsers to serve over 1 billion malicious ads in less than two months, a new research has found. The attackers targeted iOS and macOS users with zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Safari browsers that bypassed built-in security protections to show potential victims intrusive pop-up ads, and redirect users to malicious sites.
2019-10-2 09:16 | |
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Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we’ll eventually have the resources to launch deeper crewed missions from there, eventually reaching as far as… somewhere near Neptune.
2019-10-2 23:49 | |
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Facebook’s plans to open up its data vault for researchers to analyze the platform’s influence on elections has run into privacy concerns. In April 2018, the social media giant announced a new initiative to share a database of URLs its users have linked to between January 1, 2017 to February 19, 2019.
2019-10-1 16:45 | |
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What a nuisance is a faulty memory. How many times have you forgotten where you parked the car? A few years ago, probably as a sign that my retirement was overdue, I spent literally half a day trying to find my car at a major New York airport.
2019-9-28 12:00 | |
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There’s countless research from academics trying to prove whether there are any clear neurological differences between cisgenders. And while some claim there are big distinctions , others argue, for example, that women tend to be more prosocial as a result of how their brains function.
2019-9-26 16:55 | |
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A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit and Gab and used them to develop and train AI to combat hate speech.
2019-9-26 23:38 | |
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The mobile malware campaign targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China was also directed at senior members of Tibetan groups, according to new research. The details — disclosed by University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and TechCrunch — reveal that the targets were sent specifically tailored malicious web links over WhatsApp, which, when opened, exploited browser vulnerabilities on iOS and Android devices to install spyware, and surreptitiously stole private and sensitive information.
2019-9-25 11:36 | |
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Notorious threat actors like Potao Express, BlackEnergy and Turla account for as many as 79 unique malware families that have been used to infiltrate European government and military computers and target “high-value” entities across Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Belarus for information harvesting.
2019-9-25 16:02 | |
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NASA recently published a Google Research paper indicating the company’s ‘Bristlecone’ quantum computer has successfully completed a processing task in a matter of minutes that would take a classical computer some 10,000 years to complete.
2019-9-24 02:35 | |
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Blockchains like Ethereum‘s are often pitched as self-sovereign money networks that operate independently of states, financial institutions, and corporations — but recent research shows this might not be reality.
2019-9-24 20:15 | |
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A team of physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology recently unveiled the world’s most complex and accurate method for coaxing individual particles of light into interacting with one another.
2019-9-20 22:57 | |
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Alex Dwek, chief operating officer at Nas Company, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover,” to discuss the education technology platform Nas Company and why an education in Web3 can help creators “make a living off the internet,” while creating “long term value.”
Students who perform well will get a leg up to apply for Circle internships and employment.
The $100,000 Thiel Fellowships garner big headlines for successes like Figma and Ethereum. But a deeper look shows a program that’s more about hype than reform. This article is part of CoinDesk's Education Week
Turns out crypto also may have disrupted the idea that where you went to school is a predictor of your future success. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
President Xi wants China to be the world’s leader in blockchain technology but has banned its most popular uses. Students and faculty wonder whether universities can successfully teach blockchain with Chinese characteristics, and if graduates can find jobs.
I developed CoinDesk’s Best Universities for Blockchain rankings in 2020, and have been tortured to some degree by them ever since.
Universities may teach blockchain but the crypto community will always welcome the self taught.