During hearings into Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency, she grilled David Marcus, the head of its Calibra wallet, which is how its users will interact with Libra. “So, we are discussing a currency controlled by an undemocratically selected coalition of largely massive corporations. Do you believe currency is a public good?”
It’s official. Google Photos now has a billion users on the service, a milestone that took the image sharing-and-storage service…
Trusty old CityPower has been hit by a ransomware attack that has rendered its online applications useless and residents unable to buy prepaid electricity.
Fujifilm has announced a new long-range surveillance camera that can spot a vehicle’s licence plate from one kilometre away.
Facebook’s messenger app for kids, designed to let them chat safely with humans that are approved by their guardians, allowed them to connect with random adults.
Just when we thought Marvel Studios couldn’t dominate the silver screen any more, it goes and tops the ranks for the highest-grossing movie of all time.
Elon Musk’s new startup, named Neuralink, wants to create a neural link between humans and machines using a ‘sewing machine-like’ robot.
Digitisation refers to everything from delivering farming advice via text messaging to interactive voice response. It also includes smart phone applications that link farmers to multimedia advisory content, farm inputs, and buyers. And it covers the use of drones and satellite systems to inform farmer activities, such as crops and times to plant; and types and amounts of inputs to use.
People who become heavy users of the apps they download can develop deep relationships with these services, so deep that they take on what we call “psychological ownership” of them. This means they perceive each app as something that belongs just to them and has effectively become an extension of themselves.
The core idea behind the Bitcoin system is to make all the participants in the system, collectively, the bank. To do this, blockchains are used. Blockchains are distributed, tamper-proof ledgers, which can record every transaction made within a network.