March 2018 – Page 7

Blockchain, Business, Crypto-Technology, Latest Trend

7 facts you didn’t know about blockchain

March 3, 2018

It could transform how we track nearly every transaction.

You may have heard the term “blockchain” used when people talk about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. If you’re unsure of what it means, think of blockchains as ledgers that keep track of transactions. In the case of bitcoin, the blockchain is a record of financial transactions between parties. The blockchain is decentralized, meaning that no one is in charge of it, and the data isn’t owned or stored by any one company, but rather dispersed across many computers.

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Blockchain, Crypto-Technology, government

Venezuela’s own oil-backed cryptocurrency is available for presale today

March 2, 2018

Venezuela launched the presale of its own cryptocurrency, the petro, today. There are currently 82 million tokens available, which the government plans to follow with an initial coin offering (ICO) launch in a month. It’s the world’s first sovereign cryptocurrency, built on the Ethereum blockchain and intended in part to save the country from wild inflation. The bolivar has reached quadruple-figure inflation recently, and one bolivar is currently worth 0.00004 USD.

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Amazon.com, Business, Employment, Tesla

Leaders from LinkedIn, Amazon, and Tesla say these are the 5 trends shaping talent development

March 2, 2018

Leaders in the learning and talent development space discuss trends affecting the future of corporate training.

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Animals, Big Problems, Climate Change, Environment, Farming, Food, Science & Technology News

How close are we to a hamburger grown in a lab?

March 2, 2018

The creation of in vitro, or “clean,” meat involves extracting stem cells from animals

The extracted cells are grown and multiplied in a lab to create meat

Experts’ conservative estimates say clean meat will on store shelves by 2021

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Cancer, China, Medical Breakthrough

Chinese doctors are using modified T-Cells to treat advanced forms of cancer

March 1, 2018

Shixiu Wu, president of the Hangzhou Cancer Hospital, has started treating patients with advanced forms of cancer with modified T-cells. Despite his success, others worry China’s lack of tight research regulations could be putting patients at risk.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Shopping, Technological Unemployment

Unexpected ways that Artificial Intelligence will change your life in the next ten years

March 1, 2018

The future of artificial intelligence is both exciting and terrifying. It’s development will have an impact on your life over the next ten years, in more ways than one. While yes, it will have many positive impacts, The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report recently warned that artificial intelligence could also be exploited by criminals and terrorists for negative use. We know, pretty scary stuff, right?

We wanted to delve a little deeper into the future of AI, so we spoke to some experts working in the industry about how it’s expected to affect your dating, work and personal life very soon…

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AI, App, Healthcare, Science & Technology News

Using AI to help stroke victims when ‘time is brain ‘

March 1, 2018

Since entrepreneur Chris Mansi cofounded Viz.ai in 2016, the best-funded wizards of artificial intelligence have taken on board games, and created emoji that mirror your facial expressions. Meanwhile, Mansi has been developing algorithms to save the brain cells of stroke patients.

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