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…
Oracle vice president of blockchain development Frank Xiong told Forbes CIO Summit that he predicts over half of companies will use blockchain technology in the next three years. Blockchain, a technology made famous by Bitcoin, has been spreading into a variety of sectors. Oracle has more than 100 customers using Read more…
Blockchain-based systems may be the key to ensuring responsible sourcing for minerals. The Dodd-Frank Act, passed in 2017, requires any US firm to ensure that mineral resources they obtained were not for the enrichment of anyone involved in armed conflict, financing warfare, or abusing human rights. The EU has a Read more…