Facebook’s future cryptocurrency took a major blow earlier this month when PayPal bailed out of its participation in the social media’s Libra project. Though it was only one of the original 28 companies involved, PayPal’s presence lent a huge amount of financial confidence to the project. “We remain supportive of Read more…
HTC unveiled its newest blockchain phone on Saturday at the “Lightning Conference” in Berlin. The smartphone, Exodus 1s, is the first to enable users to run a full bitcoin node, creating transactions and blocks on the go. “Full nodes are the most important ingredient in the resilience of the Bitcoin Read more…
The commerce giant Walmart has taken the first step toward a patent and filed an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain”. The application was filed in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and published on August 1. The patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) blockchain-based Read more…
An NBC news article has reported that Microsoft on Wednesday announced a free software that is designed to allow a voter to verify that their vote has been recorded and not tampered with. The company will roll out the free product called ElectionGuard in a pilot program for the 2020 Read more…
Adirondack Health began notifying over 25,000 patients in early July that a protected health information breach occurred. Adirondack Health, part of Vermont-based Adirondacks Accountable Care Organization (ACO), discovered on March 4, 2019 that an employee’s email had been accessed by an unauthorized individual for two days. Adirondacks ACO ran a Read more…
I’ve been struggling to troubleshoot a strange problem that I’ve been having with my Ledger Nano S hardware wallet and Ledger live when trying to synchronize all of my cryptocurrency accounts. I hold Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple, and Zcash. The Ledger live application would fail on the sync of Read more…
Riviera Beach, Florida, a small town just north of West Palm Beach, is the latest city to fall victim to ransom hackers. Just three weeks ago the city systems fell under hacker siege. City officials this week have decided to pay the nearly $600,000 to get control of the city’s Read more…
Last month we talked a bit about Facebook’s intent to release its new global coin, Libra, which will allow users to buy things or send money with almost no associated fees via various apps. Cash in currency for Libra, spend them like dollars without transactions fees, cash out at your Read more…
The Malta Independent, a local Maltese publication, announced yesterday that 19 students have been awarded blockchain scholarships. Awardees will further apply for a Master’s degree in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) with specialization areas like law, finance, business, and ICT. The scholarships were announced during the ongoing Malta AI Read more…
The European Commission (EC) has published a set of principles around the ethical application of artificial intelligence (AI). The EC’s Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI report is part of the EU’s AI strategy announced in April 2018. The report lists seven principles concerning human agency and oversight, robustness and safety, Read more…