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CHEAP: JBL cinema speaker system for $200? Don’t mind if I do

May03
by on May 3, 2019 at 11:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Jack Churchill once said that any soldier who enters battle without a sword is improperly dressed. Similarly, any TV that lacks a decent sound system isn’t fit for purpose. It’s half-baked. Unfinished. Inadequate. After all, audio is a fundamental part of any movie or TV program. It’s almost impossible to build suspense and excitement with it. So, why are you still listening to shows through the tinny built-in speakers of your TV? You could get a sound bar. You could, but you shouldn’t. At least, not while this hefty 5.1 speaker system from JBL is on sale for the bargain…

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This designer wants to make robots less scary

May03
by on May 3, 2019 at 10:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


Humans have a weird relationship with robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. We’re simultaneously delighted and appalled by their capabilities and autonomy. When we see what the latest inventions can do to make our lives easier, we immediately hear a voice in the back of our mind: “Great, but how long before it betrays us all?” Having those concerns is normal, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Madeline Gannon, known as the ‘robot tamer,’ is a designer who explores our relationships with robots. Through her research studio, ATONATON, she programs machines to interact with humans through animal-like behaviour –…

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Microsoft teams up with JP Morgan to shill enterprise blockchains

May03
by on May 3, 2019 at 9:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Microsoft and American bank JP Morgan are teaming up to make it easier to put enterprise businesses on the blockchain. Yesterday, Microsoft announced, that it’s partnered with the American banking giant to try to spearhead the adoption of JPM’s enterprise variant of the Ethereum blockchain, Quorum. The partnership will integrate the Quorum distributed ledger into Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain platform. The firms claim it will help their customers build blockchain applications without having to worry about hardware, infrastructure, or scalability – sort of like Amazon’s own enterprise blockchain solutions. Good times for enterprise blockchains JP Morgan struck a chord in the…

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Encryption technology: 11 potential next big things

May03
by on May 3, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


As enterprise infrastructure and advancements in technology grow businesses, encryption capabilities are accelerating to keep up. Yet, knowing which new technologies are going to take off is extremely difficult. To find out what’s coming — and how the new encryption methods will change the business industry — I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: What do you predict will be the next big step for encryption technologies? How will this change impact the industry or consumers? Their best answers are below: 1. Quantum Cryptography As quantum decryption becomes more relevant, it could create a society where…

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Bitcoin price surges past $5,600 to set new 2019 high

May03
by on May 3, 2019 at 8:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Bitcoin‘s price has pushed past $5,600 to set a new 2019-high for the third time in less than a month. The rally comes despite recent confirmation that the world’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, is not completely backed “one-to-one” with cash. Bitcoin‘s market cap has also exceeded $100 billion for the first time since November as a result of the pump. Even though we’re at a new high for 2019, the price of Bitcoin is still very much below its recorded peak from the past 12 months. Indeed, on May 5, 2018 (almost one year ago), Bitcoin traded for close to $9,800. Yesterday,…

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