Cryptocures America’s dreams

Opinion: Dr. Scott Leah In the early 2000s, it was possible to get loans in the US without checking your income or assets. It was called a “Nordok” or “Roadok” loan. The aim was to support self-employed or contract workers, which was widely abused. Today, lenders are checking their income, assets, liabilities and employment. Whether…

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Crypto investors find custodians in wrench attacks

Cryptocrats report growing interest in services amid the increasing frequency of so-called “dollar wrench attacks” on cryptocurrency traders, investors and project leaders. Last year, several famous wrench attacks (physical attempts to steal someone’s code) have targeted prominent investors and business executives in the blockchain industry. The “not your key, not your coin” crypto mantra lost…

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Centralized Crisis Threats Data Privacy

Opinion: Angie Darrow, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Ecosystem Communications Officer, Web3 Foundation If a temporary data cloud outage could disrupt the global financial system, as demonstrated in April of the AWS Tokyo outage, then something has arisen with the infrastructure supporting today’s data economy. Earlier on April 12th, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a…

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Robots, Know Yourself: A New Vision-Based System Teaching Machines to Understand Your Body | MIT News

In the office of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), soft robot hands carefully curl their fingers to grab a small object. The interesting part is not the mechanical design or embedded sensors. In fact, there’s nothing in your hand. Instead, the entire system relies on a single camera that monitors the movement…

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