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GUEST: If 2017 was the year of Bitcoin, 2018 will be the year of the smart contract. Smart contracts — the self-executing coded contracts running on blockchain networks — enable decentralized apps (dApps) and the brand new economic models we are see emerging on blockchains. While it’s difficult to gauge exactly how many smart contracts […]
Among its other services, Vigilant Solutions maintains a database of license plate reader (LPR) images gathered from nationwide law enforcement organizations and camera-equipped police cars, plus numerous commercial points like tollbooths and repo services. The company says it “can offer over 5 billion nationwide detections and over 150 million more added monthly” to entities that […]
(Reuters) — Montana will sign contracts only with internet service providers that honor “net neutrality” firms, Governor Steve Bullock said on Monday, the latest effort by a state to undermine a Federal Communications Commission order rolling back rules introduced in 2015. Bullock signed an executive order requiring state contract recipients to adhere to so-called net […]
Mere days since Huawei lost a deal with AT&T to sell its flagship phones in the US due to security concerns, the Chinese tech company faces a new challenge to its US expansion plans. Congress has just proposed a bill that prohibits any government agency from working with Huawei (and another Chinese tech firm, ZTE). […]
OFTEN promoted as a way of mitigating risk, futures contracts are frequently more like new ways of gambling. That was true of a close precursor to the instrument, introduced in the Netherlands in 1636, linked to the hot investment of the day—tulip bulbs. Likewise the world’s first two futures contracts linked to bitcoin. One launched […]
Some Vodafone customers are being given a second chance to ditch their mobile contracts without incurring any nasty early exit penalties, after the provider changed the way roaming fees work earlier this year. Ahead of roaming charges being abolished across the EU, Vodafone announced in April a flat £5 per day fee for using your […]
LiAngelo Ball and LaMelo Ball, the sons of LaVar Ball, are reportedly signing one-year contracts with Lithuanian basketball club Prienu Vytautas. LiAngelo and LaMelo were supposed to be play for UCLA, but the plan fell apart when LaVar Ball pulled LiAngelo from UCLA over his indefinite suspension for shoplifting in China. The Lithuanian club reportedly hopes […]
Blockchain technologies are slowly seeping into every conceivable market. And if one Russian company succeeds, the health care industry will be the next to be feel the impact of this new technology. Robomed Network, a Moscow-based startup founded by health care entrepreneur Philipp Mironovich, has launched an initial coin offering using Ethereum to raise $ […]
PRESS RELEASE: Quantstamp demonstrates why crypto stakeholders are supporting its highly anticipated token sale SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–November 8, 2017– Since June 2017, the number of Ethereum smart contracts has quadrupled from 500,000 to over 2 million. For cryptocurrencies and blockchain change-makers, it seems like a good thing. That is, until there’s a hack. And few […]
Alex Rodriguez has not played a Major League Baseball game since August, 2016, but it wasn’t until the 2017 regular season ended that saw the end to his historic paydays as a professional baseball player. In December, 2007, A-Rod agreed to a 10-year, $ 275 million contract with the New York Yankees, a deal that only came about […]
