MasterCard CEO on Facebook’s Libra: ‘I don’t understand how that works’

Feb03
by on February 3, 2020 at 5:44 pm
Posted In: blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


MasterCard chief exec Ajay Banga has lambasted Facebook‘s digital currency Libra, citing the social media giant’s apparently shaky attitude towards compliance for his company’s departure from the project back in October. In an interview with Financial Times, Banga noted he believed that key members of the Libra Association weren’t fully committed to “not do anything that is not fully compliant with local law,” particularly in relation to anti-money laundering and data management concerns. “… all that […] every time you talked to the main proponents of Libra, I said ‘Would you put that in writing?’ They wouldn’t,” Banga told FT. [READ: Swiss president:…

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Scientists believe the key to reaching zero emissions is understanding behavior

Feb02
by on February 2, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: syndication


When we talk about innovations to deal with the climate crisis, we tend to think of new technologies developed by physical scientists. Although a real sense of climate emergency now seems to be permeating the global consciousness thanks to recent high-profile campaigning, many of us have been slow to actually make changes in the way we live ourselves. Finding out what it would take to motivate people to take practical steps to reduce emissions is where behavioral science comes in. As an example, Glasgow City Council recently announced its aim to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2030. Some…

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‘Freezing’ our bodies is the key to long-distance space travel — but can we do it?

Feb01
by on February 1, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Space, syndication


Long-distance space travel, traveling at sub-light speeds, will require a way to make the journey with a crew of aging humans. While it’s possible to avoid some of that through time dilation (a quirk of physics that slows down time for anything that speeds up), humans wouldn’t save a large amount of time until the ship reaches 90% of the speed of light. Assuming we could build ships that can go that fast, we could cut aging in half. At 99.5% light speed, we would age at only ten percent relative to an observer at rest. The problem is physics. More…

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