On April 24, 2020, with massive uncertainty circling the market, Israeli startup D-ID raised over $13.5 Million as part of its Round A fundraising. Led by AXA Venture Partners, investors in the round included Pitango Venture Capital, Y-Combinator, AI Alliance, Hyundai Motor Company, OMRON Ventures, Maverick Ventures (U.S.), Mindset Ventures and Redds Capital. D-ID plans to direct … [Read more…]
The following is an op-ed by Interchain GmbH Lead Developer of IBC Christopher Goes. Enter Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC): a protocol designed to enable an open, sovereign, secure network of interconnected blockchains or “Internet of Blockchains”. IBC is the connective substrate of the distributed interchain future — the cornerstone upon which the entire structure rests. IBC … [Read more…]
Common insurance fraud tactics like the one shown here cost insurance companies and their customers billions of dollars every year and can be hard to prove. Attestive aims to use Algorand’s blockchain to improve forensic handling of digital media assets related to insurance claims. Image credit Legal Dictionary According to the FBI’s statistics, insurance fraud … [Read more…]
Use Litecoin to purchase the Atari VCS gaming console or the new Atari Token under a new deal with the Litecoin Foundation. The Litecoin Foundation has announced a new agreement with the gaming company Atari to add Litecoin as a payment option on Atari’s gaming platforms. The deal also covers future joint merchandising and support … [Read more…]
Deep fakes like these could be coming to a movie theater near you thanks to Aletha AI’s new marketplace. Aletha AI has announced the launch of a decentralized marketplace for AI-generated synthetic media with a partnership with Oasis Labs to ensure smooth and secure transactions using Oasis Labs’ Parcel API. Synthetic media is most commonly … [Read more…]
If you’re one of those people who pays attention to chatter about cryptocurrencies, you may have heard quite a few opinions and analyses about Bitcoin’s recent “halving” and how it could affect the price. Periodic “halvings” have an impact on the number of bitcoins that owners of computing power, or “miners,” can generate for solving … [Read more…]
Most asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter are little things. They’re almost cute. In the highly unlikely event that they get kicked out of the asteroid belt and enter Earth’s atmosphere, they probably wouldn’t hurt a fly. Ceres is basically the opposite. Although it has a stable orbit around the sun and … [Read more…]
You might have heard of the Big Bang at the beginning of our universe. But what caused the Big Bang? Did anything exist before the Big Bang? If our universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? Could there be other universes out there, floating in nothing? Image credit Universe Today Scientists did not think … [Read more…]
With self-quarantine becoming the norm in the response to COVID-19, more employers are encouraging working from home when they aren’t laying employees off. This has inspired a few amusing memes, and certainly I understand the value of spending the morning in my pajamas on those mornings when I overslept by a smidge. Could this become … [Read more…]
Tel Aviv, Israel – January 16, 2020 – QEDIT, a Privacy-Enhancing Technology provider, has announced the appointment of Dr. Burt Kaliski to its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Burt Kaliski is a cryptographer and technology leader recognized for his role in developing the Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) while serving as the founding chief scientist of RSA … [Read more…]