Thailand’s Pheu Thai Party pledges to give citizens digital currency handout with 6-month expiry date, must be spent within 4km of home

2 years ago

The proposed ~$280 handout has all the hallmarks of a programmable CBDC, including expiry dates & geolocation-based restrictions: perspective Thailand's…

How startup founders can navigate buying second-hand heavy machinery

2 years ago

The construction industry is currently one of the most in-demand sectors, expected to reach a  worldwide market value of $22,873.96…

From soldiers to civilians: US govt wants to adapt, expand DARPA health tech to all Americans via ARPA-H ‘SHARE’ program

2 years ago

The US government is looking to take health technologies and innovations coming out of DARPA and other defense agencies and…

The Tech Company Brief by Hackernoon: Defying concerns of Bing’s threat in search

2 years ago

Looks like AI is not the great disruptor everyone says it is. At least, not in Google's case, which posted better-than-expected…

The lasting impact of Proof-of-Work (PoW) projects

2 years ago

The rising PoW project, Kaspa, has shown impressive performance recently, surpassing a hundredfold increase in just a year, and its…

<strong>Instant messaging API startup founder on how AI will change the way we digitally communicate (podcast episode)</strong>

2 years ago

In today's episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we speak with Nate Macleitch, Founder and CEO of QuickBlox, a…

Anticipating a ‘Roaring 20s’ redux with generative AI

2 years ago

The continued fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and widespread economic downturns may have punctuated much of the early 2020s, but…

DARPA wants to modulate REM sleep for stress, trauma adaption

2 years ago

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to improve traumatic memory consolidation by modulating REM sleep for…

<strong>Former NSA engineer on best cybersecurity advice & considering the human element in cyber breaches (podcast episode)</strong>

2 years ago

In today's episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we speak with Mike Starr, Founder and CEO at trackd, a…

The circular economy is about ‘moving away from ownership & accumulation towards service-based models’: report

2 years ago

The circular economy's Product as a Service business model risks creating a neofeudalistic, technocratic serfdom out of the ashes of…