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Siemens wants to change the way we share energy… with blockchain

Nov21
by on November 21, 2018 at 1:08 pm
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Industrial giant Siemens is the latest corporation to make moves in the blockchain space. The company has announced it intends to use the technology to bring innovation to the energy sector and give more power to the people – you know, the usual yet-to-be-proven decentralization rhetorics. For the time being, the company is limiting its blockchain experiment to two divisions only: Energy Management and Power Generation Services. With this move, Siemens hopes to find new ways to store energy and develop a more efficient management system for energy networks. “Siemens aims to proactively shape the future of blockchain-based, transactive energy…

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Study: WhatsApp helps Nigerian women get their voices heard

Nov21
by on November 21, 2018 at 12:36 pm
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Mobile phones have become widespread all over the world, including in rural and low-income communities. As research shows, these devices have the potential to bring about significant societal change – a fact acknowledged in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. While the promising role that mobile phones and other Information and Communication Technologies could play in empowering women – particularly in Afrika – has long been discussed, relatively little is known about how, when, and why this happens. We conducted a study with women from the Nigerian city of Kano to see how they were using the mobile messaging service WhatsApp. We wanted to know whether the app had opened…

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The difference between AI and machine learning, explained

Nov21
by on November 21, 2018 at 11:49 am
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A while ago, while browsing through the latest AI news, I stumbled upon a company that claimed to use “machine learning and advanced artificial intelligence” to collect and analyze hundreds of data touch points to improve user experience in mobile apps. On the same day, I read about another company that predicted customer behavior using “a combination of machine learning and AI” and “AI-powered predictive analytics.” (I will not name the companies to avoid shaming them, because I believe their products solve real problems, even if they’re marketing it in a deceptive way.) There’s much confusion surrounding artificial intelligence and…

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Bitcoin usage among major payment processors has dropped 80%

Nov21
by on November 21, 2018 at 11:41 am
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The sharp dip in price is hardly the only hurdle ahead of cryptocurrency mainstream adoption: Bitcoin usage among major merchants and payment processors has purportedly fallen 80 percent since the beginning of the year. Despite hopes that 2018 would be a big year for mainstream adoption, research from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis suggests that Bitcoin is swiftly losing popularity among major payment processors. The findings show the total amount of Bitcoin handled by payment processors has shrunk 80 percent during the first nine months of the year, Reuters reports. The trend indicates that the cryptocurrency is struggling to mature from…

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Bitcoin beatdown ‘victim’ jailed for $1M cryptocurrency theft

Nov21
by on November 21, 2018 at 11:28 am
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Remember that kid that got tortured by his friends in an attempt to steal his Bitcoin about a month ago? Well, turns out he may have actually made his cryptocurrency fortune by stealing it from a Silicon Valley exec, after pulling an elaborate SIM-swapping scheme. Santa Clara investigators recently arrested Nicholas Truglia, a 21-year-old con man from New York, for removing $1 million in cryptocurrency from exchange accounts belonging to the Bay Area‘s richest, New York Post reports. Authorities allege Truglia used an en vogue hacking technique called SIM-swapping, which involves convincing tech support staff to port the phone numbers of six victims to…

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