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10/07/2018

: Your Wi-Fi Router Will Control Everything in Your House. Homes will be supersmart in 2030. Your Wi-Fi router will operate as a hub for controlling all of your appliances, entertainment screens, locks, lights, robotics, indoor and outdoor security sensors, heating and cooling systems, plus much more. Virtually every item in your home will contain a wireless chip that connects with your smart home system, allowing you to control appliances from anywhere.

10/07/2018

: It is obvious that a realization of the IoT concept through centralized technologies is very laborious, difficult to scale and, what is more important, it is not safe. Therefore, companies and specialists working in this direction note the high potential of Blockchain technology. Learn more https://bit.ly/2KDocI5

10/07/2018

: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has been exploring the use of blockchain technology to speed up international payments, according to a new patent filing. Aimed to tackle the broad concept of adjusting account balances over a blockchain, the company explained how the system could be used to facilitate cross-border transactions that specifically involve a third-party payment vendor.

09/07/2018

: Global data management solution provider Hortonworks is pairing up with Alphabet, announcing upgrades to its existing partnership with Google Cloud. The enhancements are designed to increase optimization of Hortonworks Data Platform and Hortonworks Data Flow for Google Cloud Platform for delivery of big data analytics for hybrid cloud deployments. Customers will be able to obtain faster insights by using innovations from the open source community.

09/07/2018

: Motion capture. Yes, it has been around for years, but it’s getting really good on multiple fronts. Hollywood has continued to advance mocap technology to capture subtle performances. This year’s finale of the Planet of the Apes trilogy was probably one of the best examples of the form yet, and it was fascinating to see that film’s movement choreographer, Terry Notary, perform his ape routine without CGI in the arthouse film The Square. Not to discount the work of the Apes’ CG animators, seeing Notary’s uncanny ape impersonation coming from a flesh and blood human actually gave me a greater impression of the subtleties that motion capture tech is picking up these days.

06/07/2018

: Have a happy Friday and wonderful weekend!

06/07/2018

Healthcare is one of the areas where the cooperation of smart Big Data analytics with Artificial Intelligence is needed the most in order to solve the global problems of mankind. Read more https://bit.ly/2KzGkCC

06/07/2018

05/07/2018

. After running the alphanet, a test network, for over a year now Tezos is expected to launch its beta network in the next few days. The main network launch would follow soon with transactions from the beta network transferred over. Tezos, which describes itself as “a self-amending crypto-ledger”, raised $232 million in July 2017 making it the largest ICO at that time. The raised crypto assets are currently worth about $555 million. Tezos is a smart contract platform which differentiates itself by including an on-chain governance model and formal verification.

05/07/2018

: Personal Identification. We carry a range of identifications: Our driver’s license, computer password, identity cards, keys, social security ID, and so forth. Blockchain ID is a digital form of ID that’s engineered to replace all these forms of physical identification. In the future, fintech scientists say you’ll be able to use the one digital ID for signing up at any registrar. It is open source, secured by the blockchain, and protected by a ledger of transparent account.

04/07/2018

. Hong Kong VC Invests $160 Million in Overstock-Backed tZero ICO. A Hong Kong-based venture capital firm is placing a major bet that tZero, a security token exchange owned by e-commerce company Overstock, will prove to be a central hub in what Blockchain visionaries have termed the “tokenization of everything.”