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Elon Musk’s giant lithium ion battery in South Australia has responded in record time to the first power failure since it was installed as a back up power source. It comes just weeks after Musk won a $US13 million bet that he would supply South Australia with the Tesla battery within 100 days or it was free.…
This new way to track unobserved quantum particles could allow scientists to test old predictions in quantum mechanics. These include ideas like that a particle can exist in two places at the same time, or suggestions like telepathy in which information can be transmitted between two people without any particles traveling between them. One…
“Artificial intelligence and machine learning are hot trends in computing these days, but are largely controlled by massive corporations. These corporate titans develop their own proprietary systems and software and keep it in-house.” SingularityNET raised $36 mln in one minute, completely selling out of its native AGI tokens. While this is an enormous amount…
Gene editing is often thought of as a technique from a futuristic villain, best used to create killer mosquitoes or vaccine-resistant diseases. But there, tucked within the nearly 70-page National Security Strategy unveiled Dec. 18 by the Trump administration, was a short paragraph devoted to research and innovation. The document included the areas where the…
Blockchain development platform Chain has announced the launch of Ivy, a programming language they claim makes it possible to write smart contracts for Bitcoin’s Blockchain. Generally, smart contracts are associated with Ethereum, the Blockchain that was created to support Turing-complete, or computationally universal, smart contracts. In a blog post Monday, Chain explains that writing smart…
GMO Internet, a publicly listed IT firm in Japan, has officially launched its cryptocurrency mining operation. The mining unit was previously unveiled in September, with a goal of going live with it in the first quarter of 2018. GMO has pursued a number of cryptocurrency-related business lines in the past year, including an exchange platform…
1. What are futures? Futures are an agreement to buy or sell an asset on a specific future date at a specific price. Once the futures contract has been entered, both parties have to buy and sell at the agreed-upon price, irrespective of what the actual market price is at the contract execution date. The…
A new patent filing from Boeing suggests that the aircraft manufacturing giant is looking at how blockchain can help protect in-flight GPS receivers. In a patent application released last Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the developer of the world’s most popular airliner details an “onboard backup and anti-spoofing GPS system” that would…
Admittedly, 90% of Hyperledger projects are Proof-of-Stake – not even Blockchain at all. And to call IBM’s “Fabric” contibution “Blockchain” is really a stretch. That makes Hyperledger a hot-podge of stuff, but lacks clear focus. Hopefully this focus will be tightened soon, if it really wants to stay relevant. — TJACK NEW YORK (Reuters)…
Researchers at the University of New South Wales have revealed an architectural structure that solves some of the stability issues that are facing quantum computing scientists, according to a recent report. The new architecture, which the report compared in significance to landing a man on the Moon, utilizes currently available processors to organize how each…
Stick with the real thing, not the clones, to avoid such issues: PoW Blockchain — TJACK Using ethereum browser Mist may put cryptocurrency private keys at risk, according to an Ethereum Foundation blog post published today. The threat arises from a newly discovered vulnerability, which the blog post classifies as “high severity,” and impacts…
NiceHash CTO Matjaž Škorjanc, as pictured on the front page of a recent edition of the Slovenian daily Delo.si On Dec. 6, 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of Bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash, a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies. As the…
For years, Google and Apple have enjoyed an effective duopoly on apps, earning huge fees and implementing opaque policies. Blockchain is poised to change all this. In 2017, app stores saw record revenues and downloads. Across both iOS and Android platforms, downloads grew by 15 percent year-over-year to reach nearly 50 billion worldwide, taking…
GCHQ has showcased the nine startups chosen to help protect the UK from the cyber-attacks of the future. Software designed to detect phishing emails, a platform to help developers write secure code, and a company which investigates cybercrime involving cryptocurrencies are just some of the ideas behind the startups that will join the second incarnation…
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They use the term “Blockchain” very loosely, and actually refer to Ethereum as the platform … Yet the general idea has validity (though better on the Blockchain, i.e. PoW) – thus re-published here — TJACK The global equity market has seen a very turbulent decade since the start of the global recession. Yet despite…
11 DEC 2017 Forget about today’s modest incremental advances in artificial intelligence, such as the increasing abilities of cars to drive themselves. Waiting in the wings might be a groundbreaking development: a machine that is aware of itself and its surroundings, and that could take in and process massive amounts of data in real time.…
“What is bitcoin? Can I buy, like, pizza with it?” Asked by sports blogger Dave Portnoy in his inaugural video as a bitcoin investor, the comment cuts to the core of a truism about the network: while it’s been billed as a “digital currency,” it’s actually not all the useful for payments today. In short, you’re very…
What (whom) are we going to trust? Anyone worried about the ability of artificial intelligences (AI) to mimic reality is likely to be concerned by Nvidia’s latest offering: an image translation AI that will almost certainly have you second-guessing everything you see online. In October, Nvidia demonstrated the ability of one of their AIs to…
A critical step to quantum internet. 8 DEC 2017 Scientists just took a big step towards the goal of quantum computers, and even a quantum internet to connect them, after successfully using photons to transfer quantum information between a cold atomic gas and a solid crystal. Passing data between these two “nodes” or types of…
So, do you realize NOW we are onto something really big here? — TJACK Bitcoin has sustained its phenomenal rise and already surpassed the $18,000 per token level as of Dec. 7, 2017. Because of this, the leading virtual currency’s market capitalization (cap) has also swelled to a new record high of $305 bln, surpassing…
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