Health insurance is a source of confusion, frustration and stress for many Americans. While the federal and state governments have taken measures to improve the health insurance system, many Americans...
What’s better than enjoying an ingenious piece of art in person? Seeing it at 717,000,000,000 pixels on a smartphone or computer screen. Okay, that might not be completely true—but it’s certainly a di...
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more and more integrated into twenty-first century society, researchers have investigated to what extent the general public trust it New Tokyo based research fi...
1 What next for blockchain, crypto and payments? Global adoption of crypto in 2021 was explosive, with El Salvador accepting Bitcoin as legal tender. 2022 could see more Latin American countries like ...
UK fintechs see a record-breaking year in 2021, raising $11.6 billion n funds across 713 deals. Mammoth funding rounds drove the figures, including those of Revolut, Monzo, Copper, Checkout.com, and S...
The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog. The unpreceden...
The main technique that is used during face to face communication is speech, but this involves a lot more than just listening to the words that people say. Reading someone’s lips can also be a crucial...
ON NOVEMBER 26, the World Health Organization designated the strain of coronavirus surging in South Africa a “variant of concern” and christened it Omicron. The next day, University of British Columbi...
David Silver thinks games are the key to creativity. After competing in national Scrabble competitions as a kid, he went on to study at Cambridge and co-found a video game company. Later, after earnin...
Years ago, robots were inflexible, hard to program, stationary and, except for industries with long production runs, cost-prohibitive. Plus, they were blind, deaf, incapable of tactile sensing, uninte...
China is ramping up efforts to roll out the digital yuan to the broader population, as the country’s technology giants like Alibaba and Tencent jump on board. But will Chinese citizens — who already u...
If you could inspire one group of people to embrace Bitcoin, which would it be? A whole country? Bond traders? Family office managers? While any of these groups would have a major impact if, say, 5% o...
Investors are preparing for another record year of European venture capital activity, but frothy valuations, overseas competition and accessing talent are among the potential headwinds. European start...
On Dec 9, 2021, the world was alerted to the Log4j vulnerability [CVE-2021-44228 aka Log4Shell]. Tock… Most likely bad actors already knew about this prior to Dec 9th as it’s been reported that the vu...
Crypto exchange Binance.US is building a space in Portals, a metaverse platform built on the Solana blockchain. Portals recreates a dense urban environment where users can explore buildings and intera...