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Previously unreported – published 02 NOV 2018 A bloody example of why Cyber Security is so important – and if the CIA and US Intelligence Community cannot secure their own, why do we (in the EU) rely mostly on the same technology they use? In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working…
“Gas” is the name for a special unit used in the Ethereum network. There are so many terms and technology discussions about this “DLT” platform, while it is eveolving, that this overview might help shed some light onto one of them. It measures how much “work” an action or set of actions takes to perform.…
casper FFG or TFG, plasma/plapps, snarks/snapps, serenity/chasper … Ethereum developer individuals are fighting for their own creations, respectively. Building developer consensus is still far out. Efforts to scale ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain, are growing more varied as one much-anticipated solution encounters pitfalls amid its continued development. At the forefront of this transition has…
The benefit puts Coinbase in an elite category of employers with Google, Apple, and Facebook, which also offer egg-freezing benefits. Silicon Valley cryptocurrency unicorn Coinbase has taken an unusual and expensive step to recruit and retain diverse employees. Since March 2018, Coinbase has quietly offered to cover up to $5,000 a year for treatments like egg-freezing…
The hype around blockchain technology has caused some companies to stop using the word “blockchain” in favor of “DLT”. A new report from Forrester Research states that some companies are stopping to use the term “blockchain” because they think it is overhyped, business magazine Fortune reported Nov. 6. In thereport dubbed “Predictions 2019: Distributed…
It is a small pool these days: does not even show in hashrate distribution; last maintained 2.5% of the hashrate in NOV 2017, in JUL 2016 it had a 13% hashrate cut (see charts below). BTCC Pool, the mining operation of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange BTCC, will close “indefinitely” at the end of this…
Finally also on 7nm. Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant Bitmain has officially released two new 7nm (nanometer) “Antminer” crypto mining machines, according to an official tweet posted Nov. 5. Bitmain indicated in September that it would be equipping its new Antminer models with next-generation Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chips. ASIC chips are geared to compute…
Obscure capital from obscure sources? Bitcoin mining infrastructure provider Bitfury has raised $80 million in a closed funding round, the company revealed in a press release shared with Cointelegraph Nov. 6. The round, which comes weeks after rumors Bitfury was considering an IPO, was led by European venture capital fund Korelya Capital. Other participants…
IBM has applied for blockchain patent aiming to deter augmented reality game players from intruding on undesirable locations Major global tech giant IBM has applied for another blockchain patent, this time aiming to deter augmented reality (AR) game players from intruding on undesirable locations. The tech firm’s latest patent document was released by the…
Berlin is appreciated for its startup ecosystem as it receives 91% approval rate from its followers on this feature. For founders from Central Eastern Europe (54%) and Western Europe (42%), Berlin remains the most desired place to startup. Since 2016, Startup Heatmap Europe has asked over 3000 founders, startup employees and other members of…
Prozessor von D-Wave Systems mit 2000 Qubits (Bild: D-Wave Systems Inc.) Die Superrechner sollen das Maschinelle Lernen massiv voranbringen. Pionier D-Wave will mit einem ersten Projekt zeigen, was möglich ist. Von Wolfgang Stieler, Robert Thielicke – 07 NOV 2018 Quantencomputer könnten ein großes Hindernis aktueller KI-Algorithmen beheben: Bisher sind riesige Datenmengen nötig, um sie…
Photo of Justin Drake The Ethereum Foundation is funding efforts to create specializing mining hardware in partnership with blockchain data storage network Filecoin. Announced Thursday at Devcon, the annual gathering of developers in Prague, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake unveiled preliminary designs for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, that will support an upcoming ethereum technology…
Throughout 2018, the cryptocurrency market experienced the fourth worst correction in its nine-year history, as Bitcoin lost more than 69 percent of the value from its all-time high of $19,500. Despite the substantial decline in the price of Bitcoin (BTC), which heavily affects the earnings of miners, the hash power of the Bitcoin network has…
Dapper Labs, developer of the world’s most used blockchain app CryptoKitties, has received $15 million in another financing round, global news agency PR Newswire reported on Nov. 1. The new funding will help the Canada-founded Dapper Labs to expand it services on a local and global scale, as well as to address infrastructure issues and…
Paul Allen tours the ITER in Cadarache. Source: ITER [Amazingly, the article fails to mention the Stellarator Fusion Reactor, fails to differentiate between tokamak -ITER and 9 others- and stellarator concepts, and also the fact that all ten of the global fusion research reactors are located in Europe.] Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and…
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Cleveland has been assigned as the next director of operations at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, according to an Oct. 29 release from the Army’s chief of staff. In the new role, Cleveland will oversee the NGA’s worldwide operational support and the execution of the agency’s mission across the Intelligence community and…
Ab dem 1. November findet für 10 Tage die Berlin Science Week vom 1.11. bis 10.11. statt: “BERLIN SCIENCE WEEK 1-10 NOV 2018 is an international gathering, bringing together people from the world’s most innovative scientific institutions in Berlin. It is dedicated to the dialogue between science and society to inspire a deeper understanding of…
The Stinger missile is the U.S. military’s main short-range air defense weapon, featuring in-flight guidance and an almost 0.5 kg warhead that sends shrapnel ripping through planes, helicopters, other low-flying vehicles and, when necessary, even ground vehicles. Recently, the missile’s manufacturer has created a new proximity fuse for the weapon, which just passed qualification testing…
Manual authentication in airports means that passengers need to present different forms of ID such as boarding cards, booking reference numbers as well as their passports to different agents to show that they’re authorized to travel. These processes take a lot of time. IATA research shows that 64% of passengers would choose to share their…
It’s an image maybe just as absurd as swallows carrying coconuts, but a reality infinitely more useful. A pair of small drones with winches and hooks work together to open a door, manipulating an object 40 times their own mass. The technique is novel, inspired by wasps, and suggests new tasks for small military robots…
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