Israel‘s largest shipping firm is opening up its blockchain to all of its clients of specific trades following a successful trial. Shipping firm Zim took the decision to roll out its blockchain for electronic bills of lading (eBLs) following a successful trial last year, TradeWinds reports. For those not in the shipping biz, which I
Read MoreKatrina Brooker / Fast Company: A behind-the-scenes look at Masayoshi Son’s investment strategy, which is driven by the belief that computers will run the planet more intelligently than humans — Billionaire Masayoshi Son-not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg-has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live. A
Read MoreHitting the electronic surplus shop is probably old hat to most of our readership. Somewhere, everyone’s got that little festering pile of hardware they’re definitely going to use some day. An old fax is one thing, but how would your partner feel if you took home an entire pallet-sized gene sequencing rig? Our friend [kaspar] sent
Read MoreCruise and Christopher McQuarrie will follow the smash hit Fallout with two films shot back to back. Tom Cruise lights the fuse on two new Mission: Impossible movies – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreI started using a MacBook nearly 3 years ago and since then I’ve been hunting for a perfect desktop Gmail client. I’ve tried clients like Apple Mail and Thunderbird but somehow I kept going back to the now-defunct Google Inbox or Gmail on the web. But almost two months ago I found the perfect client
Read MoreOne of the internet’s longest serving digital asset exchanges, Cryptopia, claims to have been hit by a debilitating hack. After a full day of unscheduled maintenance outages, the NZ-based cryptocurrency exchange posted an official statement, explaining it had suffered “a security breach which resulted in significant losses.” According to Cryptopia, both New Zealand police and its high
Read MoreCampbell Brown / Facebook Media: Facebook says it will invest $300M over the next three years to support local news in the US, and expand the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator globally — Last year, we worked to better understand what kind of news people want to see on Facebook. We’ve also asked our partners …
Read MoreIberdrola, one of Spain’s main energy companies, has completed a blockchain pilot to track renewable energy more accurately than it ever could before – resulting in losses being slashed in half. The trial was carried out in cooperation with Kutxabank, a bank with an equity shareholding in Iberdrola. The energy giant used the Energy Web
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Amazon’s recently-announced DocumentDB AWS offering highlights the economic challenges facing companies like MongoDB Inc. that focus on an open source project — In 1999, music industry revenue in the United States peaked at $14.6 billion (all numbers are from the RIAA). Amazon's recently-announced DocumentDB AWS offering highlights the economic challenges facing
Read MoreThe United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has just launched an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk which will see cryptocurrency traders deal directly, rather than through an exchange. The trading desk will support just under 200 cryptocurrencies, and will guarantee pricing for trades over $250,000, Coindesk reports. The OTC platform went live yesterday evening at 6pm UTC.
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researcher discloses several flaws that made Bluehost, DreamHost, Hostgator, OVH, and iPage vulnerable to user account hacks; all except OVH say bugs now fixed — A security researcher has found, reported, and now disclosed a dozen bugs that made it easy to steal sensitive information … Researcher discloses several flaws that
Read MoreFor anyone who’s been fiddling around with computers since the days before VGA, “Hunt the Wumpus” probably brings back fond memories. Developed in 1973, this text game has you move around a system of caves searching for the foul-smelling Wumpus, a vile creature which you must dispatch with your trusty bow and arrow. Some consider
Read MoreAt the beginning of each year, tech journalists and everyday consumers love to speculate about the types of technology that the future will hold. And I’ll admit, I like to partake in these activities as well. But as I look back on predictions for 2018 (which started emerging at the end of 2017), I couldn’t
Read MoreShould we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: no. But not everyone agrees – many people, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, have raised concerns that the rise of powerful AI systems could spell the end for humanity. Clearly, your view on
Read MoreIf you’ve never played Rocket League before, there’s now a good reason to give it a go: the massively popular soccer-with-RC-cars game has just introduced full cross-platform play across every modern OS and console – including the Nintendo Switch – so you can team up with players regardless of what system they own. That’s thanks
Read MoreIn the latest episode of the Apple v Qualcomm battle, the Cupertino-based company’s COO, Jeff Williams, said the chipmaker refused to supply modems for the new iPhones – a move that could drastically affect the network performance of the upcoming range of Apple’s handsets. As per CNET’s report, the Apple exec said this during the US Federal Trade
Read More2019 begins with more data control for users. Google cracks down on apps that want access to your SMS and call logs – CNET Source: CNet
Read More3D printers now come in all shapes and sizes, and use a range of technologies to take a raw material and turn it into a solid object. We’re most familiar with Additive Manufacturing – where the object is created layer by layer. This approach is quite useful, but has a down side of being time
Read MoreLast Friday, Judge Kandis Westmore ruled in a US federal court in California that police cannot compel suspects to unlock their phones using biometrics like face recognition, iris scans, or fingerprints, as that would be in violation of their Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination. Westmore issued the order while reviewing a case involving extortion by
Read MoreJohn Gruber / Daring Fireball: Sources: Apple replaced 11M iPhone batteries under the $29 replacement program in 2018, up from an average of 1-2M — Jean-Louis Gassée, on Apple’s earnings warning: … I’m pretty sure Gassée’s back-of-the-envelope estimate of the number of batteries replaced was way too low. Sources: Apple replaced 11M iPhone batteries under
Read MoreMusic streaming service Spotify has inked a deal with Indian music label T-series to make all 160,000 of its songs available on the platform. This means Spotify listeners can now enjoy a large collection of Bollywood and Indian regional music. However, it doesn’t tell us much about when the Swedish company hasn’t announced any plans
Read MoreEleanor Cummins / Popular Science: YouTube starts rolling out a new feature on iOS that will let viewers swipe right or left to navigate between videos, coming to Android devices later this year — The design team tells us how they made swipe happen. — Tapping is so last year. That’s why YouTube began rolling
Read MoreIn a classic couch gag from the latest episode, the Mad Titan visits Springfield. Thanos dissolves The Simpsons, and guess which family member survives – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreArt. Africa by Toto is playing on infinite loop in the African desert – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe case of the blogger behind the popular website 64 Tianwang has drawn intense international scrutiny, in part because he has a kidney disease. Huang Qi, Online Dissident and Rights Advocate in China, Faces Trial Source: NY Times Tech
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