2019-11-6 19:20 |
Columbia students got their campus to use a blockchain-based social app by making it easy to use and relevant to students’ daily lives
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2019-11-6 19:20 |
Columbia students got their campus to use a blockchain-based social app by making it easy to use and relevant to students’ daily lives
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
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 | |
Economics teachers love to use the “Bill Gates analogy” to explain opportunity cost to glassy-eyed high school students. The Microsoft founder makes so much money every second that it if he saw a $100 bill lying on the street, it would be a poor use of his time to pick it up - at least […] The post Today’s Microsoft Stock Surge Just Made Bill Gates $230 Million Richer appeared first on CCN.com
2019-9-20 20:54 | |
If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent or mitigate violence. The only problem: most of them don’t work. US schools now rival China’s when it comes to ubiquitous surveillance, yet our students remain at the highest risk for violence among developed nations.
2019-7-24 01:18 | |
In a piece co-published by Wired and EdSurge last week, Emily Tate detailed a troubling facet of the burgeoning online video teaching industry. According to US-based English tutors she spoke with, some of their young students in China were being beaten and scolded by their parents for making mistakes during these lessons – on camera.
2019-7-22 09:30 | |
Earlier this week, we reported a story about the University of British Columbia (UBC), launching Canada's first blockchain and distributed ledger technology training path for graduate students. The aim of this program will be to train master's and Ph.
2019-6-14 20:32 | |
Last year, we saw reports of Chinese schools using facial recognition technology to monitor the attention levels of students. Now a report from SupChina suggests that some schools are experimenting with headbands to detect attentiveness of children in a classroom.
2019-4-5 12:10 | |
Last year, we saw reports of Chinese schools using facial recognition technology to monitor the attention levels of students. Now a report from SupChina suggests that some schools are experimenting with headbands to detect attentiveness of children in a classroom.
2019-4-5 12:10 | |
A growing number of universities in the US are abandoning the use of standardized tests as a key factor in the admissions process. Last month, Creighton University announced that it won’t require hopeful applicants to submit ACT or SAT test results beginning in 2020, joining the likes of Arizona State University, DePaul University, Drake University, University of Arizona, and University of Chicago, among others.
2019-3-17 22:30 | |
In a surprising revelation, it has come to light that the second biggest miners of crypto are college students who make use of university’s free electricity, as reported by PC Mag on March 5, 2019. Free for All Anyone who has ever tried to mine cryptocurrency will know that besides the specialized equipment sometimes neededRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-7 06:00 | |
Students Use “Free” Electricity From Campuses To Mine Virtual Currencies Cryptocurrency mining activities have been expanding around the world since Bitcoin (BTC) was launched to the market. Althoguh at the beginning it was possible to mine Bitcoin using CPU and GPU hardware, now it is necessary to have specialized devices known as ASIC. These ASIC […]
2019-3-6 22:58 | |
Google just released a new Android app called Bolo (‘speak’ in Hindi) that’s designed to help children learn Hindi and English. It works completely offline, making it ideal for use in rural areas with poor mobile connectivity, and comes with a friendly voice assistant to guide kids through the included lessons aimed at primary grade students.
2019-3-6 10:40 | |
Per a recent study by Cisco, college campuses are ranked the second biggest miners of digital currency across industry verticals, as students use “free” electricity
2019-3-6 01:29 | |
Switzerland is an international bitcoin and blockchain mecca, known for its crypto culture and concentration of crypto businesses. Now, it is the new home to 21 Lectures, a school for bitcoin developers founded by Lucas Betschart.
2019-2-12 00:24 | |
The sixth Annual MIT Bitcoin Expo is coming up in Boston. Read on to find out more. MIT Bitcoin EXPO 2019 Background The MIT Bitcoin Club is a regular annual event for students and blockchain enthusiasts, held at MIT.
2019-2-3 15:11 | |
When reporting on cryptocurrency, the mainstream media often focuses on price drops relating to USD. But a human rights activist reminds the general public that Bitcoin is not another commodity or stock on the market, rather, a tool for liberation.
2018-12-30 20:00 | |
Before cryptocurrencies started to be widely used for speculation, they were first of all meant to be an unstoppable method for people to control their own money. A new example that this is still a needed use case comes from the U.
2018-12-17 13:55 | |
College Students Enjoying More Opportunities Thanks To Increased Use Of Their Mobile Gadgets Have you ever asked yourself how the gadgets surrounding you impact your life? How many gadgets do you use on any given week? Well, for college students, it is all about identity, and how to simplify their lives. It is the primary […]
2018-11-22 01:56 | |
South Korea’s leading technology university, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is working with Theta Labs, the first blockchain-based video delivery system, to introduce students to an entirely new set of coursework regarding the applications of blockchain technology.
2018-11-15 01:26 | |
It is not uncommon for students to get crafty when they aim to mine cryptocurrencies. Some use the “free” electricity of their dorm to mine Ethereum and other altcoins. In China, one entire school seemingly had a secret Ethereum mining operation going for quite some time.
2018-11-14 04:22 | |
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
ConsenSys Social Impact — a program designed to build blockchain-based solutions for global humanitarian issues — is partnering with MakerDAO and optiMize to launch a new Blockchain for Social Impact Incubator at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
2018-9-20 01:55 | |
The older I get, the more I appreciate noise-canceling (NC) headphones and earphones. And the more I use them, the more I wonder why I hadn’t hopped on this tech earlier. Being able to go into quiet mode at the flip of a switch feels like a superpower, and comes in handy for everyone from students cramming for finals to old fogies like me trying to catch a nap on a plane.
2018-9-11 18:13 | |
Student behavior is usually a good indicator of how successful new technologies could be in terms of adoption. For example, students were first to embrace the use of the Internet and Facebook before they eventually spread to the rest of the population.
2018-9-4 14:59 | |
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 | |
As college students use dorm rooms for their mining efforts, universities and businesses alike are concerned about costs and hazards. For Penn State University freshman John Cines, a dorm room crypto mining operation was completely justified by tuition prices.
2018-8-12 01:00 | |
Woolf is aiming to become the first fully accredited, borderless, blockchain-powered university. Woolf will use blockchain technology to enforce regulatory compliance, eliminate or automate bureaucratic university processes, and manage the custodianship of sensitive financial and personal data.
2018-8-6 20:04 | |
ODEM is not just an online education platform. Students, as well as corporate buyers, can make use of this. Courses
2018-8-2 11:30 | |
As of next month, French students will no longer be allowed to use smartphones or tablets while at school. The law was passed on Monday and will apply to school children between 3 and 15 years old, according to CNN.
2018-8-1 18:00 | |
A new Startup company, Ultimo Digital Technologies (UDT), based out of a former Australian Commonwealth Research Institute is geared as a multitasking microchip designed specifically for animal welfare.
2018-7-31 20:18 | |
It’s no secret that the number of hours teens spend on electronic devices has some impact on their well-being. What scientists disagree on, however, is just how much. The latest study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has linked Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms to teens who frequently use electronic devices.
2018-7-19 04:14 | |
The tokens are now available to students and researchers from academic institutions – with a pre-sale discount of up to 30%. AIUR tokens will support Iris.ai’s Project Aiur – a project that allows scientists to semi-automate the process of checking the factual base of any research hypothesis. AIUR tokens can be used to demand services
2018-7-14 17:35 | |
Interest in blockchain is soaring, with a groundswell of activity taking place on the campuses of the world’s top universities. From new business use cases — such as making cross-border payments faster, lower cost and more transparent — to uses of blockchain for good, students and faculty globally are emerging as major contributors to the … Continued The post Ripple Introduces the University Blockchain Research Initiative appeared first on Ripple.
2018-6-17 13:00 | |