Ben Goertzel is founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace project. The global need for scalable, usable decentralized information technologies has never been more acute than right now, mid-pandemic. Forced digitalization is driving most of the world’s population further into the grip of big tech companies. As more […]
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Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings has been fired after players accused her of fostering a culture of abuse that led to an exodus from the program. Stollings is shown here during a game against Baylor University on Feb. 18 in Lubbock, Texas. Brad Tollefson/AP hide caption toggle caption […]
BRUSSELS (Sputnik), Luc Rivet – Chinese video-sharing app TikTok joined the ranks of tech companies the United States came after over alleged data privacy concerns, but its threat to national security, emanating from the alleged collusion with the Chinese government, might be overestimated. Last week, the parent company of TikTok, […]
Top row, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, second from right, and bottom row Google CEO Sundar Pichai, left, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, second from left are sworn in remotely during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill. Mandel Ngan/AP hide caption toggle caption […]
A new study from Bitcoin startup Veriphi finds companies and users sending bitcoin transactions could have saved more than half a billion dollars in fees if all companies, including wallets and exchanges, had used the most up-to-date technology. Each bitcoin transaction has an optional fee tacked on. Users have the […]
HUGE! Trump White House Implements Executive Order on Online Censorship: Prevents Tech Giants from Altering Users’ Free Speech – Demands Transparency of Moderation Practices Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
The infrastructure propping up Bitcoin might become easier for anyone to spin up and run. Lightning creator Tadge Dryja has been working on a new design for a lighter weight Bitcoin full node, about which he first wrote a paper in 2019. Last week, he and a team of coders […]
On the eve of a Big Tech antitrust hearing, citing video evidence dug up by Project Veritas, a Republican congressman has referred Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the Justice Department for lying to Congress about political bias. Zuckerberg allegedly made “materially false statements to Congress while under oath” during the […]
From Kamchatka in the east to St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad in the west, the Russian Navy put the finest of its sea power on display, with warships sailing by and naval assaults played out in front of onlookers. Founded and nurtured by the reformist Tsar Peter I the Great at […]
Adam Traidman is CEO of BRD, a mobile cryptocurrency wallet. If a global company can successfully hide billions of dollars overnight, we have a problem. If it is rigorously audited by a leading accounting firm, and regulated by one of the most thorough regulatory agencies in the world, yet still […]
More than 50% of COVID-19 related business closures in the US are now permanent. Can tech platforms provide a new avenue for small biz entrepreneurship? Today on the Brief: Disappointing jobless claim numbers with first increase in 4 months US banks now allows to custody crypto Senate hears arguments for […]
New Tech Labor Movement Unites Office And Gig Workers By Tyler Sonnemaker and Allana Akhtar, Business Insider. July 23, 2020 New Tech Labor Movement Unites Office And Gig Workers2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/employee-activism-at-major-tech-companies-like-amazon-and-google-has-been-on-the-rise-especially-since-the-pandemic.-e1595538254838.jpg200px200px Above photo: Employee activism at major tech companies like Amazon and Google has been on the rise, especially since the pandemic. Tech […]
Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down a key data-sharing agreement between the United States and European Union, with possible implications for U.S. blockchain companies that serve EU customers. The 2016 agreement, known as the Privacy Shield, lets American companies self-certify they are complying […]
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The body of Tech millionaire Fahim Saleh was found decapitated and dismembered last week in his luxurious Manhattan apartment. Police arrested his former personal assistant Tyrese Devon Haspil on Saturday for his death. The New York Times reported that Haspil owed Saleh nearly $100,000 that he stole from his former […]
U.S. prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from Sohrab Sharma, a co-founder of the Centra Tech initial coin offering (ICO) fraud. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is […]
A former assistant to tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, whose dismembered body was found in his luxury Manhattan apartment earlier this week, was taken into custody by the NYPD on Friday. Tyrese Haspil, 21, was being held in connection with the gruesome slaying of the 33-year-old startup whiz. He was expected […]
On Wednesday the Twitter account belonging to former Vice President Joe Biden was hacked, the account belonging to former President Barack Obama was hacked shortly after. Many other massive figures and accounts were also hacked, including Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Elon Musk, Uber, Warren Buffet, Apple and Bill […]
As NYPD detectives sought the black-clad monster who beheaded and dismembered 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh in his $2.2 million Manhattan apartment, his family issued a plea for justice. “No words or actions to provide any of us comfort except the capture of the person who exhibited nothing short of […]
14 Jul, 2020 11:48 Follow RT on British telecoms companies will be banned from buying Huawei 5G components starting from the end of this year, the UK media secretary said. The firms also must get rid of all of their Huawei gear by 2027. Follow RT on Source link
Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone […]
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Stephanie Hurder, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory focused on the implementation of emerging technologies, and an academic contributor to the World Economic Forum. She has a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard. As the world prepares to return to work and school […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps, citing them as a “threat to the integrity and sovereignty” of the country in the wake of the border clashes with China. While new Indian apps have been launched to fill the space to promote ‘self-reliant’ India, global players are also […]