Ripple to start operation in Iceland with latest acquisition: 5 things you need to know
In a recent development, Ripple, one of the fastest-growing companies in the cryptocurrency market, has announced the acquisition of the Icelandic crypto trading firm Algrim. With this deal, the company is planning to expand its presence in Europe through operations in Iceland.
This German startup that offers pay-as-you-go subscription model for technology products lands €41M
In the latest development, Berlin-based Grover, a startup that enables people to subscribe to tech products monthly, has raised €41 million. The round is made up of €11 million from equity investors and €30 million in debt capital.
U.S. House Passes Bill Requiring Study Of Blockchain Technology
Last Thursday the “Advancing Innovation To Assist Law Enforcement Act” passed in the House of Representatives. The bill requires the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to conduct a study on the use of blockchain, AI, and other technologies by the agency and provide a report to the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee.
AI may be as effective as medical specialists at diagnosing disease
A new scientific review has concluded that artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to diagnose disease as successfully as human healthcare professionals, but a lack of quality studies means the real potential of the technology is unclear.
Will There Be An AI Productivity Boom?
A big pastime of economists in the 1980s and 1990s was trying to gauge how much corporate and industrial productivity would benefit from the then-novel phenomena of personal computers, workgroup servers, and computer networking.
Google steps up battle on 'deepfakes' with data release
Google said Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to battle “deepfakes” by releasing new data to help researchers detect videos manipulated by artificial intelligence.
The Cloud Can Provide Both High Security And Maximum Flexibility
Oracle added 12 new data center regions offering its Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure during the past year—and the company plans to increase the pace.
Blockchain At The United Nations Leading Solutions To The Global Crisis
The 73rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) convened this week in New York and was dominated by the climate crisis with Grete Thunberg, the “16-year-old poster child” for the climate crisis movement, delivering a passionately blistering speech on how the political and business establishments have stolen her dreams by not appropriately responding to the crisis.
10 Ways AI And Machine Learning Are Improving Endpoint Security
Gartner predicts $137.4B will be spent on Information Security and Risk Management in 2019, increasing to $175.5B in 2023, reaching a CAGR of 9.1%. Cloud Security, Data Security, and Infrastructure Protection are the fastest-growing areas of security spending through 2023.
You can now sign up for Microsoft's Project xCloud, a way to play console games on your phone
You can now sign up to play video games on your phone through Microsoft’s Project xCloud service. Not mobile games, but titles that previously were only playable on a console that costs hundreds of dollars.
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Tech execs say they're acting faster on extremist content
Executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter told Congress on Wednesday that they’ve gotten better and faster at detecting and removing violent extremist content on their social media platforms in the face of mass shootings fueled by hatred.
African star tech start-up lays off hundreds of junior developers
The start-up, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from investors including Facebook and tennis star Serena Williams, laid off more than 250 junior software developers in Nigeria and Uganda, with up to 170 trainees in Kenya “impacted”, it said in a statement on Tuesday evening.