Business
Blockchain technology can give small businesses and entrepreneurs new avenues for funding their ventures and create opportunities for growth, according to a report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Jun 28, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Despite attempts to label the blockchain as a disruptive "trust machine", the tangible business applications of this nascent technology have yet to take shape in practice and be more visible for customers.
Jun 17, 2022
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Business
A combined team of researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University has found a possible way to make blockchain processing more efficient—by calculating something useful as part of the consensus mechanism. ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Video games are increasingly incorporating blockchains, the decentralized databases that underpin cryptocurrencies, as well as NFTs and other "digital assets." New games are emerging expressly to support blockchain technology, ...
May 31, 2022
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Business
Mance Harmon graduated from college in 1993 when the World Wide Web was just getting ripples, so he remembers the frustrations of trying to explain it to his parents. It didn't make sense to them until they got an email account, ...
May 25, 2022
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Computer Sciences
The advent of blockchains has ignited much excitement, not only for their realization of novel financial instruments, but also for offering alternative solutions to classical problems in fault-tolerant distributed computing ...
May 18, 2022
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Internet
Some 40 years ago, Silvio Micali and his colleague Shafi Goldwasser wanted to figure out how to play poker together on their phones. They needed a way to ensure neither could know the other player's hands.
May 4, 2022
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Business
Blockchain technology will soon be able to be applied within items produced by 3D printers thanks to pioneering work by experts.
Apr 21, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A global team of researchers, including Monash University experts, has developed a new algorithm that will enable building more resilient, efficient, and faster blockchains.
Apr 5, 2022
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Security
Blockchain technology is perhaps best known for its role in digital, or crypto, currencies. However, it is simply an immutable, electronic ledger and so can have other applications such as the writing and signing of smart ...
Mar 16, 2022
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