2018-10-19 20:35 |
Ethereum's next upgrade, Constantinople, has been delayed until next year.
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2018-10-19 20:35 |
Ethereum's next upgrade, Constantinople, has been delayed until next year.
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Do you have a family emergency plan for autonomous weapon attacks? Stop, drop, and roll isn’t going to fool the drone tracking you. Duck and cover? Does it even matter? It’s hard to separate the hyperbole and science fiction-nonsense from practical concerns — for regular people — when it comes to autonomous weapons.
2018-10-19 22:35 | |
A team of researchers from IBM, the University of Waterloo, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) today published the results of an experiment proving a quantum computer can do things a classical one cannot.
2018-10-19 01:50 | |
SoundCloud users will soon be able to DJ live directly on the platform, all while having its huge catalogue of streamed music at their disposal. CEO Kerry Trainor made the announcement at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) on Thursday during his keynote.
2018-10-18 17:27 | |
MIT will create a new college with courses combining AI, machine learning, and data science with other academic disciplines. With $1 billion in funding, this will be the largest financial investment in AI by any US academic institution.
2018-10-16 12:55 | |
Google’s childish approach to business ethics has landed it in hot water with Congress yet again. After discovering a software glitch earlier this year – persisting since 2015 — the company chose to hide it from consumers and regulators.
2018-10-11 22:27 | |
Another day, another cryptocurrency hack. Notorious blockchain startup SpankChain has temporarily taken down its adult streaming platform after attackers exploited its smart contracts to steal $38,000 worth of Ethereum.
2018-10-9 17:58 | |
Chart for ETC/USD (1W) Ethereum Classic (ETC) is currently the only Turing Complete blockchain that will run on Proof of Work (PoW) forever. It has a limited supply of coins, just like Bitcoin (BTC).
2018-10-9 17:00 | |
It seems even the Ivy League wants a piece of the cryptocurrency and blockchain action. While academic institutions have been gradually evolving to include blockchain and cryptocurrency courses, they have mostly stayed away from investing in the industry – until now.
2018-10-5 15:21 | |
Rumor has it that Sony might finally make one of its biggest changes ever — allowing players to change their names on the PlayStation Network. The rumor comes from Kotaku, who cite anonymous developers who’ve been told about the change in order to prepare for it.
2018-10-5 02:50 | |
How will augmented reality (AR) glasses work for consumers? Specifically, what will be the user interface (UI) and/or user experience (UX) for the eyewear that will bring AR to the masses? The user experience will be very important since we are talking about a change to the fundamental human and machine interface.
2018-9-29 19:30 | |
Way back in April, we heard rumors that LG would be launching a smartwatch using Google’s newly rebranded (at the time) Wear OS. Called the LG Watch Timepiece, it was a hybrid that would somehow combine Wear OS with a an analog, mechanical watchface.
2018-9-29 03:00 | |
Remember when social media was about posting on a whim without any hidden agenda or transparent humblebrag? Those were the days of endlessly scrolling through your Facebook timeline until you caught up with the latest updates from your friends and family.
2018-9-27 17:40 | |
Consider that years ago the idea of paper money — let alone digital money — seemed abstract. In fact, when Marco Polo first came back from his travels in the East, his stories of people in China using paper representations of money (as opposed to metal) were discredited as sorcery.
2018-9-26 13:00 | |
Monero developers have disclosed a major bug that could really have been nasty. Until now, attackers could have drained Monero from exchanges (or any organizational wallet), all for the cost of a few transaction fees.
2018-9-25 19:10 | |
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has flexed on cryptocurrency fraudsters. It has just released details of disciplinary action taken against misleading initial coin offerings (ICOs) operating in Australia.
2018-9-21 17:31 | |
Sony today announced PlayStation Now subscribers would be able to download their games in order to play them offline. Up to now, if you wanted to play games on PlayStation Now, you’d have to stream them — meaning you needed to be continuously online in order to make it work.
2018-9-21 03:33 | |
The entire Bitcoin infrastructure has been issued with a stern warning: update Bitcoin Core software or risk having the whole thing collapse. Until now, Bitcoin miners could have brought down the entire blockchain by flooding full node operators with traffic, via a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.
2018-9-20 12:22 | |
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
Industry buzz surrounded Ethereum this week as community members await the next stage of the coin’s development. The protocol also served as the jumping-off point for a new fully regulated stablecoin.
2018-9-16 18:41 | |
Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer.
2018-9-11 18:15 | |
The final blow has been dealt to notorious BitConnect: it has finally been delisted from the last remaining cryptocurrency exchange that traded it. As announced in August, exchange desk TradeSatoshi promised to delist BitConnect and its BCC token from its platform on September 10 – and the day has finally come.
2018-9-11 16:35 | |
A pair of computer scientists from Georgia Tech developed a machine learning-based method to automate the generation of novel video games. It’s the first of its kind and could lead to the democratization of game creation.
2018-9-11 23:37 | |
Bill Barhydt, founder of bitcoin wallet app Abra, said the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) within a year once the financial regulator feels comfortable with the caliber of the applicants.
2018-9-6 21:31 | |
Government regulators haven’t made things easy for anonymous cryptocurrency projects. Monero fans are complaining about being profiled by cryptocurrency exchanges, after Changelly was found to wield the ability to effectively “steal” cryptocurrency from customers.
2018-9-5 19:01 | |
In a potentially trend-changing move, bitcoin has now managed establish its first *higher* low since the beginning of this years crypto bear market. In mid-June, after seeing a short-lived bounce from this year’s low in the upper $5,000s, the bitcoin market took a very harsh, unrelenting move that dropped the price from the mid $8000s to the $5900s.
2018-9-4 00:27 | |
Google isn’t slowing down with the new blockchain tech. A few months after releasing Bitcoin support for its BigQuery database tool, Google has debuted a new plug-in for analyzing the Ethereum blockchain.
2018-9-3 14:20 | |
This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.
2018-9-1 02:06 | |
Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
The Canadian government has postponed the release of its final regulations for cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The final published regulations were due this fall, but the government now says they won’t be published in the Canada Gazette until late 2019.
2018-8-28 20:18 | |
Big data and analytics are becoming more central to organizations in almost every industry, and as they spread, so do the questions that surround them. A significant sticking point — and, in my opinion, one of the more interesting ones — is the way these organizations choose to store their data, and why.
2018-8-24 07:58 | |
Some of my most cherished memories involve crowding round a TV with friends and playing multiplayer games until the early hours of the morning. While this used to be the only way a group could play on a console, the success of online gaming has relegated a lot of local-multiplayer experiences.
2018-8-23 14:25 | |
Some of the crypto industry’s biggest exchanges are joining with the Winklevosses in an effort to bring self-regulation to a market that many perceive to be fly-by-night and unstructured.
2018-8-22 23:39 | |
At this year’s Gamescom in Cologne, we got the chance to play a demo version of the upcoming mobile game from Bethesda, The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Anyone with a passing interesting in gaming will know The Elder Scrolls series.
2018-8-21 18:49 | |
Bitcoin ABC, a development team behind Bitcoin Cash have announced the full details of the next Bitcoin Cash update (hard fork) set to roll out on the 15th of November 2018. The announcement is so far in advance of the update, as Bitcoin ABC have a responsibility to ensure that people are ready for the update and that none of the technology behind Bitcoin Cash are affected by the roll out.
2018-8-21 12:30 | |
Samsung today revealed the final form of its oft-rumored Bixby-powered smart speaker, the Galaxy Home, at its Unpacked event. This nifty, tri-legged device takes its place on the market alongside the Apple HomePod, the Google Home, and the Amazon Echo.
2018-8-10 20:05 | |
Independent DJ Justin Blau (known on stage as 3LAU) didn’t exactly stumble into the cryptocurrency industry — to say so would misrepresent how much thought he’s put into his blockchain-based event network, Our Music Festival (OMF).
2018-8-8 19:23 | |
If I was a scientist, I’d hope everything I created would weird people out. This is why I’ve got such glowing admiration for the team of researchers who have created a tiny robot spider that could one day potentially conduct operations inside humans.
2018-8-8 15:31 | |
Good news for crypto-traders: Coinbase will be enabling instant cryptocurrency purchases and higher daily limits for trading and deposits. A new update is going to be rolled out that will make it possible to purchase $25,000 worth of cryptocurrency every day for US users.
2018-8-8 13:01 | |
On June 26, the SEC received an application from Cboe Futures Exchange to launch the world’s first Bitcoin ETF. Initially scheduled for a decision next week, the SEC has now postponed the application’s deadline until late September.
2018-8-8 10:00 | |
Mt. Gox are back in the headlines, this time as a result of a decision made by authorities that will see money owed by Mt. Gox, held until summer 2019. Just to recap, Mt. Gox are due to credit the accounts of customers who had funds stolen during the Mt.
2018-8-4 23:00 | |
With more than $761 million in cryptocurrency thefts this year alone, security has become a hot topic in blockchain tech. But what exactly is the best way to store your digital assets on decentralized networks? If you ask Samsung, the answer might be your smartphone.
2018-8-3 18:30 | |
In what surely constitutes a sign of the coming apocalypse, parents are shelling out up to $20 an hour for coaches to help their children suck less at Fortnite. Or, you know, maybe the internet is overreacting, just a tad.
2018-8-2 23:51 | |
You might have noticed an addition to Facebook‘s menu of reactions yesterday: A tiny airplane. This unidentified flying object disappeared as quickly as it appeared, but that didn’t stop users from undertaking some pretty weird — and utterly pointless — rituals to get it.
2018-8-2 21:29 | |
If you’ve been waiting anxiously to follow the adventures of Eleven and her friends as they battle monsters from another dimension in the town of Hawkins, I’ve got some bad news for you: season three of Netflix’ 80s-themed sci-fi show Stranger Things will skip 2018 and air next summer instead.
2018-7-30 08:54 | |
The SEC has decided to postpone making a decision on the Direxion Bitcoin ETF application until September. BTC/USD Bitcoin broke out and closed above the downtrend line of the descending triangle on July 23.
2018-7-26 01:43 | |
Cardano (ADA) is trading at the lower half of the pitchfork on the ADA/BTC chart above. This means that the cryptocurrency is close to finish its correction and will likely find a bottom around mid August, if it trades with the same momentum.
2018-7-25 18:00 | |
For lots of people, moving apartments is hampered by difficulties in scraping together a security deposit. If you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck, this can be unbelievably hard. One insurtech startup trying to change how deposits work is Reposit, which replaces the traditional six-week’s deposit with an insurance bond.
2018-7-24 09:00 | |
Goya-Move has a simple purpose: it wants to get kids active by blocking apps until they’ve hit a specific step count. In fact, the app’s tagline – “Get Off Your Apps… and Move!” – definitely got me active, as my mind fell into a perpetual logical cycle.
2018-7-23 16:09 | |
Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |