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Data: China has the most blockchain patents, despite banning cryptocurrency

Mar13
by on March 13, 2019 at 2:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Patents have always been controversial in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space because most projects are established on the premise of decentralization and open source code. It’s for this very reason that the notion of intellectual property (IP) is incredibly contentious. We wanted to get a better idea about the amount of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related patents filed and published across the globe to identify key trends and gather information on the most active entities in the space.  In order to do this, Hard Fork gathered the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) website data using the following search terms: blockchain, block chain, Bitcoin,…

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Abra finally treats its users as adults, lets them handle Ethereum directly

Mar13
by on March 13, 2019 at 2:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Yesterday, cryptocurrency wallet and services provider, Abra, announced that users can now purchase Ethereum through its Android and iOS apps. You’d be forgiven if you thought this was already the case, but it wasn’t. Let me explain. With the new update, users can now add and withdraw actual Ethereum cryptocurrency to and from their Abra wallet. Before the update, any exposure to Ethereum on Abra was through one of its “synthetic assets,” which means you buy into the token without actually owning it. Abra also sees this addition as the first step to streamline the “process to add more ERC20…

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Sex robots’ next big leap won’t come from the adult industry

Mar13
by on March 13, 2019 at 1:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, robots, syndication


This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between sex and technology in a non-explicit, as close to a ‘safe for work’ way as possible – including app reviews, adult VR info, sextech devices, privacy, security issues, and much more. It was founded by ex-TNW European Editor Ben Woods, and can be found on Twitter and Facebook.   You might be seeing more and more headlines about sex robots at the moment, but the reality is that sex robot tech still has a long way to go. Technically ‘sexbots’ do not currently exist, or at least, certainly not in the way they’re frequently…

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NBC’s tool will tell you if IBM’s used your photos to train its AI

Mar13
by on March 13, 2019 at 12:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


In January, IBM published a research study dubbed ‘Diversity in Faces‘ to explore whether AI-based systems developed biases against people based on their appearance. The company used a dataset consisting of nearly a million pictures of people’s faces from photo-hosting site Flickr. However, it failed to notify those Flickr users that it was using their pictures to train an AI – and you could be one of them. NBC, which broke the story, has developed a tool to check if IBM has used your Flickr photos. Here’s how it works: Open this link in your browser, and scroll down until you see the…

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