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The cryptocurrency market has for long tried to emerge as a savior from the web of complicated and somewhat flawed, traditional financial systems. Alas, the system that was supposed to lead by exampleThe post Is the Ethereum community practising what it preaches? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-8-16 23:30 | |
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eftpos Payments Australia, a debit card system for the country, today announced it is collaborating with global distributed ledger company, Hedera Hashgraph, on a micropayments proof-of-concept that aims to create a seamless Australian payment experience for web users by providing an alternative to traditional online paywalls and subscriptions.
2020-7-22 20:37 | |
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The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA), Italy’s major news agency has joined forces with Ernst & Young to develop a blockchain-based news tracking and authentication system. The solution is aimed at curbing the spread of fake news, while also uniting news publishers, web agencies and other participants in the journalism ecosystem reports Ledger Insights onRead MoreRead More.
2020-4-8 23:00 | |
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About 26 years ago, Opera entered the market and started supporting access to various websites with domain extensions including . com, . net, and . org. Over time, the domain system keeps getting additions, with one of the recent ones being the .
2020-3-31 18:12 | |
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IOST’s Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform announced on March 20, 2020, that it has strengthened its relationship with AWS China, the global leading cloud computing platform. Amazon Sponsors IOST IOST, a China-based enterprise-level blockchain system, had already announced its launch on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) marketplace last year.
2020-3-21 18:00 | |
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Sia has launched Skynet, a content delivery network (CDN) and web hosting platform. The platform provides a blockchain-based peer-to-peer file storage system. Skynet is powered by Sia’s blockchain-based, peer-to-peer file...The post Sia Launches Skynet, Blockchain Peer-to-Peer File Storage appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-19 04:39 | |
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The key-management startup that offers one-click logins to decentralized apps (dapps) Torus has announced it has new partners for its Web 3.0 product. Joining Torus, those that will run nodes to support the decentralized login system are going to be Binance, Etherscan, Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Ontology, Ziliqa, Skale, Matic Network and Tendermint Core. Web […]
2020-2-13 21:17 | |
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Derrick Foote is a Canadian web 3.0 entrepreneur dedicated to helping build Web 3.0 with trust and transparency, giving back data freedom and control online to the users. Actively involved in the Blockchain space since 2013 and a graduate of Oxford University Blockchain Strategy program, Derrick has spent years educating people on blockchain technology, managing […] The post RTrade CEO talks Interplanetary File System (IPFS) – potential applications, challenges of good user experience for crypto/web3 devs, ETH 2.0 & ENS Domains appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-11-29 15:30 | |
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Moon Technologies Inc. , a fintech firm in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space has created an online payment system that enables customers to pay for their purchases on Amazon with bitcoin (BTC).
2019-10-23 19:00 | |
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The dated tech in the United State’s nuclear computer system is getting an upgrade as the military sunsets those gigantic old-school floppy disks. It’ll be replaced with a digital solution of some kind.
2019-10-18 20:58 | |
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Earlier this week I told you Facebook‘s ‘cryptocurrency‘ saga had turned into a soap opera and that it was going to be a long season, and it seems I wasn’t wrong. The technology giant is facing a new challenge after the G7 said on Thursday that such stablecoins shouldn’t be allowed to launch until international risk was assessed.
2019-10-18 12:04 | |
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It’s brilliant news. In just over a decade, there will be two spacecraft exploring one of the most habitable worlds in the solar system – Jupiter’s moon Europa. That’s thanks to a recent announcement by NASA that the orbiter Europa Clipper has been given the go ahead, scheduled to reach the moon at the beginning of the 2030s.
2019-10-18 12:02 | |
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Swedish company Yubico has announced that its hardware security keys can now be used to login to a local Windows OS account. The feature, which underwent extensive testing over the past six months, lets you add a second layer of authentication to your Windows accounts, by plugging a USB key into your PC.
2019-10-18 08:32 | |
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Google’s new Pixel 4 smartphone doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor. Instead it relies on “Face Unlock,” a proprietary facial scanning system similar to the one found in Apple’s Face ID. Early reports show a system that works well, perhaps too well, in fact, according to some security experts.
2019-10-18 06:50 | |
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Researchers have uncovered the first instance case of a cryptojacking worm that propagates via malicious Docker images, according to Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team Unit 42. Dubbed “Graboid,” the worm infects compromised hosts with malware that covertly abuses the systems to mine privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero before randomly spreading to the next target.
2019-10-16 16:03 | |
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Facebook sent the world into a frenzy when it announced its intention to enter the payments space with the launch of its controversial ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra earlier this year. Initially, Facebook said it had garnered support from 28 companies, including some of the world’s top financial and technology giants.
2019-10-15 19:46 | |
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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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China’s emerging social credit system (SCS): rarely has a topic been more hotly discussed, and more poorly understood. When most people think about the SCS, they imagine it primarily as a scoring mechanism, a way for the central government to rank China’s citizens and companies based on their behavior.
2019-10-15 16:55 | |
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Human trafficking affects every country in the world. In fact, estimates say that 20-40 million people are enslaved across the globe, earning criminals profits of approximately $150 billion a year.
2019-10-14 14:37 | |
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Good morning forkers, it’s that time of the week again. It’s Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you shouldn’t miss. Let’s get to it. 1. Facebook‘s “cryptocurrency” Libra is facing yet more challenges as Mastercard, Visa, eBay, payment system provider Stripe, and South American partner Mercado Pago have pulled out of the troubled project, The Financial Times reports.
2019-10-14 11:40 | |
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Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed to carry up to 100 crew members on interplanetary journeys throughout the solar system, starting with Mars in 2024.
2019-10-13 20:00 | |
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Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, whose work detecting exoplanets recently earned him a share in the Nobel prize for physics, says humans will never migrate beyond our own solar system. Maybe it’s time we started taking this whole “climate change” thing seriously.
2019-10-12 21:28 | |
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WCIT is the signature event of the World Information Technology & Services Alliance. This year it was Armenia’s turn to be at the center of the IT world map. The consortium of ICT associations from 83 countries claims to represent 90% of the industry.
2019-10-11 16:56 | |
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The lighter your skin, the better AI-powered facial recognition systems work for you. The UK Home Office knows this, because the government‘s been briefed several times on the problem. And a recent report shows that it knew it was developing a passport program built on biased, racist AI.
2019-10-9 21:15 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Have a pool party coming up? And you haven’t found a way to lug your expensive speaker system out in the back yard so you can play some sick tunes? We’ve got your back.
2019-10-9 15:23 | |
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The Bank of England‘s (BoE) Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has laid down a set of rules that Facebook‘s Libra and other cryptocurrencies must follow if they are to be launched in Britain. While some question if Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra will ever launch, the BoE‘s FPC did recognize its potential to becoming an “important payment system,” City AM reports.
2019-10-9 15:12 | |
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A team of researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science recently announced the discovery of 20 new planets surrounding Saturn. This moves the ringed planet past Jupiter as the most ‘moonfluential’ denizen of our solar system.
2019-10-8 21:32 | |
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When we say something is ‘Apple,’ we all understand what that means, right? It might be hard to precisely define, but — and to paraphrase former United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart — we know it when we see it.
2019-10-8 16:27 | |
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We’ve all heard how blockchain promises to transform the financial system, supposedly for the better. But, the tech is actually being applied to other important industries such as agriculture and supply chain management.
2019-10-8 11:53 | |
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Cybercriminals are targeting hospitals across the globe with ransomware. Some of the hospitals are giving in to the attackers’ demands and paying the requested ransom, likely in cryptocurrency.
2019-10-7 18:09 | |
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In the UK, a new chocolate bar contains a blockchain-based token, either to be directly gifted to the cocoa farmer or redeemed for a discount on the next purchase, Fast Company reports. Sure, it’s chocolate, but The Other Bar pitches itself as a social experiment, too.
2019-10-7 14:55 | |
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Over the years Boston has been given some pretty grand nicknames. Back in the 19th century it was called ‘The Hub’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes; later, in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan referred to the capital of Massachusetts as ‘the shining city on a hill’.
2019-10-4 19:57 | |
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After splitting up with its UK banking partner Barclays earlier this year, Coinbase has now fully reinstated GBP transfers. But it’s not all good news, as the exchange has also upped its fees.
2019-10-4 14:46 | |
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When dealing with complex systems, anything can happen, which means that no matter how well you’ve tested something, problems like system outages are inevitable — and are often caused by events out of your control.
2019-10-4 12:00 | |
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An icon buried in the next iteration of iOS 13 suggests we might be getting a radical new generation of AirPods. If the info is correct, they’ll have a new design and some new features to go along with them.
2019-10-3 23:12 | |
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MakerDAO, the decentralized organization that runs on Ethereum, has disclosed an enormously dangerous security flaw that could’ve allowed an attacker to steal collateral powering its Dai stablecoin with a single transaction.
2019-10-3 16:12 | |
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Microsoft announced a bunch of stuff at its event including a dual-screen device running new Windows 10X, the Surface earbuds, and the Surface laptop 3. And then, out of nowhere, it hit us with a dual-screen device that runs Android.
2019-10-2 18:50 | |
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Passwords have been around for millennia. Thousands of years before the advent of the computer, the Roman military would use what Polybius described as a watchword to distinguish ally from enemy.
2019-10-2 15:55 | |
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Skydio today announced the the “Skydio 2” smart drone. It’s a feature-packed ‘flying film crew’ capable of navigating through forests, over water, and at speeds of up to 38MPH. I reviewed the company’s first drone, the R1, and my jaw’s still on the floor.
2019-10-1 20:01 | |
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The main goal of the Quant project is Quant Network. It is a technology that uses an operating system in order to automate trust functions between several blockchains. The project has reached several significant partnerships — most notably with Oracle, Amazon Web Services, and Nvidia.
2019-9-28 16:19 | |
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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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D-Wave today announced its next generation “Advantage” quantum computer system. It’ll pack a whopping 5,000 qubits and myriad improvements to processing speed and power. And the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be among the first to have access.
2019-9-25 01:14 | |
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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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Facial recognition technology is used across China for everything from identifying criminals to measuring students’ attention in class. Now, it has debuted a system in its subway that lets you use your face as a ticket.
2019-9-23 09:14 | |
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The latest upgrade to the iOS operating system is here, after having been teased for months. iOS 13 adds a number of features users have been asking for, and while it’s not the most meaty upgrade Apple’s ever released, it does have a few nifty features worth mentioning for those on the fence.
2019-9-20 03:13 | |
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Waves blockchain platform shifting to self-regulating monetary system - CryptoNinjas Waves, an open platform for Web 3. 0 applications and custom decentralized solutions, today released its updated protocol version Node 1.
2019-9-20 21:20 | |
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Huawei launched its new flagship, the Mate 30 Pro, today in Munich. The device features a waterfall display and quad-camera setup on the back with a huge 40-megapixel primary sensor. The Chinese manufacturer’s latest offering has a 6.
2019-9-19 15:30 | |
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Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new strain of Linux malware that not only mines cryptocurrency illicitly, but provides the attackers with universal access to an infected system via a “secret master password.
2019-9-16 17:42 | |
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today revealed that faulty software and human error were to blame for a recent accident involving Tesla’s “Autopilot”. According to the report, the Tesla’s driver was operating his Model S P85 with the vehicle’s driver-assistance feature turned on.
2019-9-5 02:12 | |
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Sia co-founder David Vorick's short story takes the perspective of the decentralized web recounting its own, inevitable rise.
Cypherpunk historian Finn Brunton imagines a future where there are many internets, each making demands on your attention.
The blockchain industry already exhibits signs of the same forces that have driven over-consolidation in the broader economy.
Real freedom will come when monetary stimulus goes directly to the people, writes Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro
Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change.
Self-help guru James Altucher sees a world where we can jump between virtual realities. Will it be a better world? Time will tell.