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AI DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough
Jeremy Kahn jeremyakahn Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for...
Blockchain Internet Freedom In Question ‘Icann’
Wendy McElroy The context in which the Internet operates may dramatically change…or not. The End of the ICANN Monopoly? At issue is who or...
The Jio Network May Boost India’s Bitcoin Economy
Jamie Redman The use of Bitcoin may get some more fortification in India as the region’s most wealthiest man is enabling super cheap 4G to...
Blockchain Foundry Introduces E-commerce Platform to Azure
Jamie Redman The Syscoin project recently announced the formation of a company entity called Blockchain Foundry. The newly created Foundry...
Bitcoin Threatens Credit Card Issuers
Stan Higgins A securities affiliate of Spanish banking group Banco Santander is predicting bitcoin will have a significant impact on the...
Bank of England to Accelerate Blockchain Work
Stan Higgins The UK's newly opened FinTech accelerator is seeking additional ways to explore blockchain tech. Speaking during an event in...
Bitcoin Flirts With $630 Traders Go Long
By Charles Bovaird The price of bitcoin surged more than 2% on Thursday, 8th September, nearing $630 as speculators caused the digital...
Blockchain Requires Radical Change, Not Compromise
By Frances Coppola To use radical new technology effectively, you have to be radical – otherwise, all you end up with is a retro-fitted...
iPhone 7: Why Apple Killed The Headphone Jack
John Paczkowski The standard audio jack that connects your headphones to just about everything has been around for nearly 150 years....
Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free ‘Open AI’
by Cade Metz The Friday afternoon news dump, a grand tradition observed by politicians and capitalists alike, is usually supposed to hide...
Tradewind Startup To Tap Blockchain for New Gold Exchange
Alyssa Hertig The company featured in the bestselling book "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt" reportedly plans to use the blockchain to...
‘Big Four’ Accounting Firm Is Running a Bitcoin ATM
Michael del Castillo 'Big Four' accounting firm Deloitte is now the owner and operator of its first bitcoin ATM. After a quiet unveiling...
Italy Wants to Tax Speculative Bitcoin Use
By Stan Higgins New documents suggest Italy's top tax office is treating bitcoin as a form of currency. Agenzia della Entrate, Italy's...
If You Understand Google Docs, You Can Understand Blockchain
William Mougayar The more people understand the blockchain, the more we will see a proliferation of useful cases for it. Just like any...
Beijing’s super collider in question
‘China won’t succeed where US has failed’: future of after Nobel laureate’s harsh words Stephen Chen A plan to develop a super particle...
China’s SS Chair Open to Blockchain Integration
By Stan Higgins China's state social security system is reportedly looking into how it could leverage blockchain technology. According to...
6 Blockchain Startups Join Ernst & Young ‘Challenge’
Michael del Castillo Ernst & Young has announced six startups will participate in its first-ever startup contest focused exclusively...
S America Exchange Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
By Stan Higgins South America's biggest stock exchange operator has joined the R3 distributed ledger consortium. BM&F Bovespa, based...
The Stolen DAO Funds Are On the Move
By Michael del Castillo More than $5m worth of digital currency associated with the attack on The DAO is on the move. Identified via an...
Hong Kong Central Bank to Test Blockchain
By Pete Rizzo Hong Kong's de-facto central bank intends to launch an innovation hub that will test blockchain and distributed ledger...
Barclays Completes Blockchain Trade Finance Transaction
Pete Rizzo A big bank trade finance trial has borne fruit. Barclays reported today that two partners (agriculture co-operative Ornua and...
Mellon Backing Up Bank Transactions With Blockchain
By Stan Higgins BNY Mellon has developed a test system that leverages blockchain technology to create a backup record of its brokerage...
By Julio Gil-Pulgar Drones for peaceful purposes are relentlessly converging with Bitcoin and its blockchain technology to defy obsolete...
Hong Kong FinTech Initiatives to Benefit Bitcoin Tech
By Kevin Helms Hong Kong’s top banking regulator, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), unveiled two FinTech initiatives today. The...
ASX Defends Blockchain Research Initiative
By Jamie Redman The newly-appointed Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) chief, Dominic Stevens, recently defended the company’s stake in...
Blockchain Will Transform the Agriculture Industry
By Jamie Redman Agriculture jobs are a big part of the worldwide economy and blockchain technology is starting to make headway in this...
Students at Berlin University Build Chess Game on Ethereum
By Jamie Redman A group of students from the Technical University of Berlin (TU) has created a chess game on Ethereum using...
Carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon – first time
By Colin Jeffrey They're not the first transistors created using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but researchers at the University of...
Mercedes concept dispatches drones for last-mile delivery
By Nick Lavars When it comes to making the concept of delivery drones a reality, using vans to handle the brunt of the work is an idea...
Microsoft Azure’s CTO Wants Blockchain to Connect Every Industry
By Michael del Castillo If Microsoft Azure's CTO is right, R3CEV may have just been the beginning. Mark Russinovich envisions a world...
US Credit Unions’ CULedger to Do ‘What R3 Does For Banks’
By William Suberg August saw the first meeting of US credit unions looking to pioneer so-called distributed ledger technology (DLT) in...
China’s Social Security Fund to Use Blockchain Technology
By Jamie Redman According to Wang Zhongmin, China’s vice-chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF), the country...
Big Finance Firms Now Want to Hire Bitcoiners as ‘Specialists’
By Jamie Redman The need for blockchain specialists in the finance field is growing fast, says Yahoo Finance. Companies such as American...
Tree-planting drones to speed up reforestation efforts
John Anderson, DroneSeed's drones would rapidly reforest logged lands by planting seeds, spraying for invasive species, and monitoring the...
Audi Does Electric Power Formula E
Scott Collie, Formula E may not attract the same attention as Formula 1, but it's building momentum as the 2016/2017 season edges closer....
3 Reasons For Crypto-Token Use In Open-Source Projects
By Nicholas Tomaino, Spurred by Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger's recent blog post, there's been lots of discussion about...
Digital Assets Raises $1.5 Million As Seed Round
By Michael del Castillo, Digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities has announced a $1.5m seed round led by Pamir Gelenbe's AngelList...
Small Ethereum Clones Getting Attacked by Mysterious ’51 Crew’
By Jamie Redman According to various reports, a malicious group of hackers called the “51 Crew” is hijacking blockchain clones by taking a...
6th Biggest Mining Pool Tests Bitcoin Unlimited
By Trevor Hill Chinese mining pool, ViaBTC, has made the decision to test Bitcoin Unlimited. This is a significant move on the part of the...
Bitcoin Price Breaks $600 Again
By Jamie Redman The price of bitcoin is in a bullish pattern, seeing significant spikes over the past 24 hours. At press time, the value...
The Blockchain is Perfect for Government Services
By William Mougayar, As government services are one of the most obvious and immediate application areas for the blockchain, it's no...
High Cost of Bitcoin Mining Could Steer A Blockchain Take-Over
By Jamie Redman The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) has released a study called “Minting Money With Megawatts,”...
China Merchants Bank Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
By Stan Higgins China Merchants Bank has become the latest Asia-based bank to join the R3 blockchain consortium. The commercial bank,...
California Pension Fund Considers Blockchain Opportunities
by Stan Higgins Board members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) recently took part in a discussion on...
Credit Unions Become Banking Blockchains
By Bailey Reutzel The credit union industry is following the lead of hackers and thieves, according to Jeff Johnson, chief information...
Bitland Announces ICO Crowdfunding & Launch
By William Suberg Decentralized land registry project Bitland has announced its ICO crowdfunding campaign and slated launch following a...
Russia’s to Host First Blockchain Hackathon
By Jamie Redman Innopolis City in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan will host a fintech and blockchain hackathon on September 17-18 sponsored...
Bitfinex Pays 1.1812% Customer Reimbursement
By Jamie Redman On September 1, Bitfinex reimbursed its first wave of clients. 1.1812 percent of currently outstanding BFX tokens were...
4 Japanese Organizations Launch Blockchain Collaborative
By Jamie Redman A new joint research project from four Japanese organizations has formed a collaborative to promote regional development...
Hedge Fund ‘Crypto-Bridge’ Platform to Apply for License
By Jamie Redman The PAR Project (par.io) a Productive Asset Record system, has released its white paper today revealing the launch of...
Kimberley Inches Closer to ‘Blood Diamond’ Blockchain
by Stan Higgins A new report from the chair of the Kimberley Process – an initiative aimed at keeping conflict diamonds out of the global...
Quantum mechanics could have made the Big Bang a Big Bounce?
By Michael Franco Dr. Gielen (left) and his partner on the paper, Neil Turok of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics...
Can Boom bring back supersonic flight at a reasonable price?
By David Szondy Artist's concept of the Boom supersonic passenger plane A Denver-based startup company is entering the race to...
SpaceX explosion takes out Facebook’s multi-million dollar satellit
By Michael Franco Today's explosion took out a Falcon 9 rocket, like this one, along with the communications satellite it was meant to...
Visa Invites Lenders to Test Blockchain Payment System
Kevin Helms American multinational financial services corporation, Visa, is inviting lenders to test its interbank transfer system that...
Brave Browser Finally Unleashes Bitcoin Micropayments
By Allen Scott After months of development and hype, Brave Software Inc. has finally released an update that integrates under-the-hood...
Blockchain Surveillance is Accelerating Privacy Tool Development
By Jamie Redman Over the past couple of months privacy-centric solutions have been growing in importance and popularity for the nascent...
Top 5 Things People Are Buying on OpenBazaar
By Allen Scott OpenBazaar is the first-of-its-kind global decentralized market with thousands of products available for sale. But what...
Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Adoption Could Stabilize Price
By Stan Higgins, The central bank of Canada has published a new working paper that suggests its researchers believe digital currency...
Deloitte Spin-Off Nuco Partners on Blockchain IoT Project
By Michael del Castillo, Distributed ledger startup Nuco has inked its first formal partnership since being spun out from Deloitte's...
Accelerator Plug and Play Plans Big Blockchain Bank Collaborations
By Michael del Castillo, Storied Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play recently revealed its biggest batch of blockchain...
Visa Testing Blockchain for Interbank Payments
By Pete Rizzo, Visa’s London-based innovation lab has announced its latest blockchain trial will focus on interbank payments. Visa Europe...
MS Organizes Smart Contracts Security Working Group
By Alyssa Hertig, Microsoft has revealed it is organizing a working group dedicated to improving smart contracts security. Named...
Wall Street Goes Blockchain With Factom, Intrinio
By Jamie Redman, Blockchain-based data management platform, Factom, has announced its partnership with Intrinio, an application and...
Four Big Banks to Create a New Bitcoin Alternative
By Jon Southurst, Four major world banks are set to announce the creation of a new blockchain-based digital currency, and are hoping to...
IPC & Post-Quantum Will Fuse the Blockchain with the Cloud
By Jamie Redman, New Jersey-based IPC Systems has partnered with Post-Quantum Solutions to implement biometrics, encryption and blockchain...
Bitcoin Is the Fuel We Need for the Industrial Internet of Things
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Industrial giant G.E. has announced the new Internet revolution: The Industrial Internet of Things. G.E. promises the...
Blockchain’s Thunder Network Aims For Faster Refunds
By Jon Southurst, Blockchain is improving its Thunder Network for faster settlement and refund times in off-chain transactions, according...
Kickstarter crowdfunding platform launches in Hong Kong
Kickstarter CEO and co-founder Yancey Strickler. Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter launches today in Hong Kong, making it easier for...
China mounts massive crackdown on underground bank network
By Stephen Chen Hundreds of suspected operators of underground banks have been arrested this year in a nationwide crackdown on the...
China’s Huawei eyes US$10b business in cloChina Huawei Sees $10b business in cloud infrastructure and servicesud infrastructure and services
By He Huifeng huifeng Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier, expects to build a...
A better way to mine gold from old electronics
By Michael Franco When you get rid of an old phone or tablet, you're likely to remove your valuable information from it, but what about...
Tasmanian devils evolving resist highly lethal, contagious cancer
By Tyler MacDonald A small portion of the Tasmanian devil population might be evolving resistance to a deadly form of cancer In the face...
US Dept of Health Selects 15 Blockchain Research Contest Winners
By Stan Higgins, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), a division within the US Department of Health and Human...
Hyperledger Blockchain Project Adds 17 New Members
By Stan Higgins, An affiliate of global electronics giant Samsung is among 17 new members to join the Hyperledger blockchain project. The...
Insurance Giant MetLife Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
By Pete Rizzo, In the latest sign that the insurance industry is embracing blockchain and distributed ledgers, MetLife has announced it...
Japan Exchange JPX Distributed Ledgers ‘Better’ With Third Parties
By Pete Rizzo, A new report from financial giant Japan Exchange Group (JPX) contends that distributed ledgers will work "better" when...
The New Weapons in the Fight Against 2.4 Billion A Month Robocalls
by Olga Kharif olgakharif You know the drill -- those annoying recorded calls saying you’ve won a free cruise or a reduction in your...
Blockchain Executives Aim At Governance Issues
By Michael del Castillo, Executives representing the top-level leadership at a range of blockchain companies and projects have signed a...
IBM Combines AI & Cloud Computing with Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo, IBM is reorganizing its internal blockchain team into a business unit that encompasses its artificial...
‘Settlement Coin’ is All About Banks, Not Blockchain
By Frances Coppola, Why would anyone want to use a coin issued by four large banks bailed out in 2008? That's a question that many...
Graphene Big breakthrough for future of semiconductors
By Eric Mack, The supermaterial graphene has been receiving quite a bit of attention over the past few years. The latest breakthrough...
Ethereum-Competitor Lisk Unveils Roadmap
By Jamie Redman, The multi-platform blockchain project Lisk has just released its developmental roadmap, which will cover five...
Bitcoin Blocksize Debate Has Not Even Fully Begun Yet
William Suberg The CEO of China’s largest miner HaoBTC spoke with Bitcoin.com following his tweet stating that the Core developers have...
PIA – VPN Adds Roger Ver to Advisory Board
By William Suberg, No-log VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) has stepped up its Bitcoin and Blockchain involvement with the...
Why Dark Markets Matter
By Allen Scott, The precipitous rise of Monero in the past few days has caused many users and traders to ask: what’s behind the surge of...
Could the Blockchain End Bureaucracy?,
By Alexander Hitchcock, Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises explained in 1944, is "always applied with an opprobrious connotation", and such...
Singapore Central Bank Proposes New Rules for Bitcoin Startups
By Stan Higgins The central bank of Singapore has proposed a new regulatory framework for payments providers in the city-state, a move...
Florida Appeals Espinoza Decision, Bitcoin’s Status at Stake
By Jamie Redman, The state Florida made headlines when Miami-Dade’s Circuit Judge Teresa Mary Pooler tossed out anti-money-laundering...
Fed Explores Radical New Financial Engineering Tools
By Jon Southurst, Central banking is “in a brave new world,” said a Fed representative as the institution considers both old and radical...