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Apple, Amazon, and Google have done a great job educating users that voice is here! Voice recognition has been getting better over the years but, finally, over the last few years, is good enough to be viable in various environments.
2019-3-29 19:02 | |
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We have only 41 days left until TNW Conference! Our tech festival in Amsterdam on May 9 and 10 will be incredible. We have over 200 speakers confirmed, including the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger.
2019-3-29 16:13 | |
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NEO is a next generation of blockchain, a smart economy platform that has had a monumental rise to fame and most know NEO for its explosive growth. NEO is a blockchain platform and cryptocurrency, which is designed to digitize assets using smart contracts, aiming to bring blockchain to the masses.
2019-3-29 21:00 | |
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Since its creation in 2005, YouTube has been the go-to website (and app) for watching videos. Today, with more than a billion worldwide users, and videos ranging from high-budget original series to seconds-long clips of children’s birthday parties, it would seem that YouTube has established a platform that can’t be toppled.
2019-3-26 22:27 | |
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The die is very much cast when it comes to the growth of machine learning. With the expansion of tech companies like Google, Amazon and Uber, artificial intelligence-based research and products is a growth industry that’s only just getting started.
2019-3-23 15:19 | |
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The total crypto market cap is about to break the $136. 0B resistance level for the next bullish wave. Bitcoin cash price is back above the $160 level and it may continue to rise towards $165. EOS price is slowly moving higher towards the key $3.
2019-3-21 09:00 | |
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As long as voice assistants are on the rise, data privacy should be too. The market is now saturated with voice assistants from Siri and Google Assistant to Facebook Portal and Amazon Alexa. In January, Amazon announced that more than 100 million Alexa enabled devices have been sold globally.
2019-3-16 16:30 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency stalwart Brock Pierce has been instrumental in some of the highest profile projects in the cryptosphere. Most recently, the Mt. Gox creditors asked him to help prepare a plan to maximize returns and repair the damage caused by its infamous scandal — so his predictions in Forbes for the next year are certainly worth listening to.
2019-3-14 01:00 | |
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With shrinking profit margins and the closure of Coinhive, cryptojacking looks like it’s coming to an end. The in-browser Monero mining program was conceived as a means of legitimately monetizing web pages.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women and all they have achieved throughout history. From women’s silenced influence in creating the internet to the rise of female-founders in tech.
2019-3-8 14:35 | |
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Your brain is made up of billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. And how they’re arranged gives rise to the brain’s functionality and to your personality. That’s why scientists in Switzerland recently produced the first-ever digital 3D brain cell atlas, a complete mapping of the brain of a mouse.
2019-3-7 18:14 | |
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Volume Of Cash Transactions Drop As Digital Payments See A Steady Rise A recent report called Access to Cash Review has predicted that in the next 15 years, the currently obtainable cash structure will be practically outdated.
2019-3-7 00:24 | |
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Despite news in recent months that cryptocurrency mining establishments have been shutting down, or ending contracts, profits earned from Bitcoin mining have begun to rise, blockchain research group Diar reports.
2019-3-5 17:51 | |
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The crypto's price has fallen to the support of $0. 001940 price level. If the bulls defend this level, the crypto's price is likely to rise to break the EMAs. On the other hand, if the bearish trend continues, the crypto's price will fall to the next support of $0.
2019-3-5 12:23 | |
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It’s been a long time since Sony was a leader in the mobile industry – certainly not after the rise of Android and iOS. In the years since it’s delivered some decent handsets under the Xperia family, but few that have truly stood out in an increasingly crowded market.
2019-3-5 03:42 | |
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The impressive rise of Silicon Valley as it became the global hub of technological innovation certainly took many on Wall Street by surprise. As time has gone on, I’ve seen many begin to muse that the era of Wall Street’s financial dominance over technology could be over, especially as private lenders and burgeoning tech firms in Silicon Valley carved out an impressive empire for themselves on the West coast.
2019-3-2 22:30 | |
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By Gianluca Bellan and Andrea Hak Hungary is a startup hub on the rise. You’ve no doubt already heard of Prezi, the country’s first unicorn, which ended the reign of boring presentations globally by making them more engaging and interactive.
2019-2-28 12:00 | |
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Anyone can play video games, right? If you’ve been following recent buzz in the gaming industry, you might be under the impression that video games are more accessible than they’ve ever been. Popular talking points include how video game audiences are increasingly large and diverse.
2019-2-23 20:00 | |
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It’s a cold, wet, and windy day in mid-January. You hear the knocking of the shutters against the window pane as you roll over in bed trying to find some warmth. Looking at the clock that’s been handed down four generations in your family you see it’s still not even four in the morning.
2019-2-22 16:25 | |
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After a few years of slowdown, it looks like China’s back to hacking US entities, according to a report by Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm. The report notes China’s collecting intelligence for its “Made in China 2025” plan that will make the country a world leader in manufacturing.
2019-2-20 11:01 | |
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What more could you want from a country where fairy tales, Lego, and the idea of the chill ‘hygge’ vibe originate? Now Denmark is also one of the most exciting startup scenes in Europe and is home to more than 400 tech companies that do everything from analytics and big data to gaming, cloud, fintech, and apps.
2019-2-14 12:00 | |
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Slack isn’t just a messaging app. The main factor propelling the rise of this $7. 1 billion platform is that it’s gradually become the nexus of how people work, thanks to integrations with Jira, Trello, and other popular workplace tools.
2019-2-13 19:03 | |
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Bitcoin hashrate, the computing power of the network, has hit levels last seen in November 2018. Bitmain-operated hashrate, however, has hit its lowest point in the last 16 months. Bitcoin Hashpower at a 3-Month High As of yesterday, February 7th, Bitcoin hashrate has hit over 50 quintillion hashes per second according to data from Blockchain.
2019-2-8 17:00 | |
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Our very own TNW Conference in May is an all-encompassing exploration of technology’s future. From machine learning to design, thought leaders will explain how we’ll live, work, and move in tomorrow’s world.
2019-1-22 19:05 | |
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Crypto Mining Malware Has Started To Be “Self-Aware” Crypto mining malware is one of the worst threats that people are facing right now. With the rise in the price of crypto's (especially Bitcoin and Monero), many malware appeared to use people’s computers to mine tokens and make a profit. Now, The Next Web’s Hard Fork […]
2019-1-17 20:57 | |
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2018 marked the year that governments, businesses, and other organizations around the world started implementing GDPR — not just in Europe but worldwide. However, even as businesses have clamored for enhanced data protection, there have been major missteps along the way, many of which resulted in catastrophic compromise of important user data.
2019-1-16 12:47 | |
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Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: no. But not everyone agrees – many people, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, have raised concerns that the rise of powerful AI systems could spell the end for humanity.
2019-1-15 11:45 | |
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Bitcoin’s rise above $4,000 was shortlived this time with its price declining sharply below it on Thursday night by 9%. The move erased the gain that it had experienced over the past few days. Ethereum and XRP, the next two largest cryptocurrencies also experienced 15% and 9% price drops overnight.
2019-1-11 16:04 | |
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Latest Ripple News The cross-border payment market is projected to hit $2 trillion by 2020 according to a recent report by McKinsey. Citing robust growth especially in the Asia-Pacific corridor, the report goes on to say the global payments will swell and even exceed $5 trillion in the next five years.
2019-1-9 15:00 | |
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has called for new pan-EU rules on crypto assets in a bid to heighten consumer protection. According to an official report released today, the new set of rules would override the current patchwork of different crypto asset regulation across the EU, which could derive in unfair competition across countries.
2019-1-9 14:11 | |
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Cardano is an open-source blockchain and smart contracts platform, supported by the namesake cryptocurrency Cardano (ADA). The project is a direct competitor to Ethereum, and the two organizations also share a co-founder between them — Charles Hokinson.
2018-12-31 12:00 | |
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China’s internet celebrity economy has expanded exponentially in recent years. According to a report released by iResearch, the number of online celebrities in China with more than 100,000 followers has increased by 57.
2018-12-27 22:00 | |
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As the New Year approaches, tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs will take a moment to reflect on what has been an eventful year in the world of innovation. The tech universe has been rocked by big news equally scandalous and exciting – from the autonomous vehicles racing to hit the streets to the ethics of tech titans under fire – with the reverberations felt worldwide.
2018-12-26 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin passed more significant milestones this week as data reveals its Lightning Network (LN) implementation passed 500 BTC ($2,066,000) capacity for the first time. Lightning Network Sees Parabolic Rise Statistics from monitoring resource 1ML.
2018-12-24 18:00 | |
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Binance Coin (BNB) is the namesake cryptocurrency underlying the world’s largest virtual currency exchange desk, Binance. It was launched in July 2017 as an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain, raising $15 million for Binance in its initial coin offering (ICO).
2018-12-20 11:00 | |
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2018 is winding down, and we’ve witnessed a number of significant events this year as far as mobile tech is concerned: these include the US government signing an order laying out its 5G strategy, major telcos rolling out 5G, companies like Vivo and Huawei launching mobile phones with fingerprint sensors under the display, a rise in bezel-less phones (or at least near-bezel-less phones!), and more examples of artificial intelligence being used in mobile phones.
2018-12-19 22:00 | |
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Jeremy Allaire The Circle CEO Is Convinced That Bitcoin Prices Will Continue To Rise Jeremy Allaire, the CEO and Co-Founder of Circle recently stated that Bitcoin prices will continue to increase in the coming years.
2018-12-15 20:46 | |
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Today we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by examining the positive ways artificial intelligence will affect humanity in the next decade. Also, we ate an entire cake by ourselves.
2018-12-11 01:49 | |
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From concerns over blue light to digital strain and dryness, headlines today often worry how smartphones and computer screens might be affecting the health of our eyes. But while the technology may be new, this concern certainly isn’t.
2018-12-10 17:42 | |
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Blockchain technology is rapidly spreading into every available corner in the market, leading many business owners and managers to encounter it for the first time recently. While many have heard about the exciting cryptocurrencies that are sucking up media attention, like Bitcoin, few have heard as much about the blockchain tech that’s powering those cryptocurrencies and other dizzying digital trends forward.
2018-12-9 07:50 | |
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With the cryptocurrency market on a year-long downward trend, a lot has changed for the individual cryptocurrencies in the market. All the cryptocurrencies in the market so far have booked double digit losses and have had a pretty rough time.
2018-12-2 17:05 | |
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It is rare to see Bitcoin’s mining difficulty levels drop – if anything, they are designed to rise after every two weeks. However, these are extraordinary times for the cryptocurrency. The difficulty level is now set to drop even lower for the third consecutive time.
2018-12-2 23:57 | |
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Much like the rest of the crypto market, ether has found itself devalued by more than 90% since its all-time high of $1,400 back in December of 2017. And now, almost a year later, ether sits just above $100 on what appears to be shaky ground during its latest round of selling over the last few weeks:Figure 1: ETH-USD, Daily Candles, Rapid DescentSimilar to bitcoin’s movement discussed in yesterday’s article, ETH-USD experienced a parabolic growth profile during its bull run.
2018-11-28 01:55 | |
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After tracking sideways for months the bitcoin price has slid dramatically during November. For newcomers to the sector this was no doubt a jarring event but in reality, it is just a continuation of the number one crypto’s cyclical rise and fall.
2018-11-23 15:00 | |
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Android malware has been on the rise over the past couple of years, we’ve just seen one of the worst attacks of this kind. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko found 13 apps with malware on the Play store, and said that more than 560,000 people downloaded these apps before Google took them down.
2018-11-21 14:09 | |
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The continuing price slump raises many new questions as to whether Bitcoin will remain the world’s leading cryptocurrency in the long term. XRP recently surpassed Ethereum by a wide margin, following a rapid rise in prices in recent weeks.
2018-11-20 14:50 | |
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The rise of the digital era has brought with it many wondrous changes to our daily lives, not least of which the fact that we now carry digital assistants with us everywhere we go in the form of smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers.
2018-11-18 07:06 | |
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While India is home to the world’s largest film industry and one of the planet’s largest audiences for cinema, it’s also constantly struggling with the challenge of censoring movies. Things have gotten more complicated in the past few years with the rise of international streaming video platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
2018-11-16 15:19 | |
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Working remotely is becoming increasingly commonplace in many countries around the world. Whether individuals work in a flexible environment that allows them to spend part of the week outside the office or even work entirely from home, the increased flexibility offered by today’s tech-powered environment has created new opportunities for employers and employees alike.
2018-11-12 19:58 | |
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