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Visa Tokens Overtake Payments Giant's Physical Cards in Circulation

Payments giant Visa Inc said on Wednesday it has issued over 4 billion network tokens worldwide through its security technology Visa Token Service (VTS), outpacing the total number of its physical cards in circulation. VTS replaces 16-digit Visa account numbers with a token that only Visa can unlock, protecting the underlying account information. “Without exposing […]

Founder of China's Huawei Urges Focus on Cash Flow, Survival in Downturn - Media

The founder of China’s Huawei Technologies has told employees the company must shift its focus from pursuing scale to ensuring profits and cash flow as the global economy enters a long period of recession, media reported on Tuesday. “With survival the main principle, marginal businesses will be shrunken and closed, and the chill will be […]

Pros and Cons of Blockchain Technology: A Thorough Dive 

Live blockchains are growing daily at an ever-growing pace. As of our present day, there are more than 10 000 active Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. With such a presence, having the right knowledge base has never been more valuable as this decentralized technology becomes more and more embedded into global establishments. So, what are the pros and cons […]

Taiwan Touts 'Democracy Chips' in Meeting with U.S. State Governor

Taiwan wants to ensure its partners have reliable supplies of semiconductors, or “democracy chips”, President Tsai Ing-wen told the governor of the U.S. state of Indiana on Monday, saying China’s threats mean fellow democracies have to cooperate. Governor Eric Holcomb is making the third trip to Taiwan this month by a U.S. delegation after U.S. […]

How Difficult Is It to Get Selected in 500 Startups?

A global venture capital firm, famous in both the financial and technology scene, 500 startups back a wide range of companies and has managed, thus far, to maintain its exponential presence in the global market. Providing the needed financial support to rising tech startups, 500 Startups fixates on high-level criteria when looking for rising startups […]

The Silent Threat of Malicious Code

The internet might be an essential presence in our lives today. The global internet landscape has grown exponentially. This growth has invited cyberattacks and breaches, which have sharply increased over the last few years. Malicious code has been a creeping threat since the dawn of the revolutionary era of the internet. What is malicious code, […]

Drones Will Soon Energize Dubai's Food Industry

In the 1990s, the internet took the world by storm and vitalized the e-commerce industry. A couple of decades later, drones are set to elevate the food industry. Interest in Drone technology is surging in UAE, and Dubai is pioneering it, so how are drones used in the Dubai food industry? Can Drones Deliver Food? […]

The Dubai IoT Plan of the Future

A pioneering vision to promote satisfaction for all residents of Dubai through a continuous commitment to innovation driven by the endless possibilities delivered by the Internet of Things (IoT). Dubai’s IoT plan for the future is directing the city on an accelerated progressive path to realizing unprecedented advancements in the quality of life, service efficiency, frictionless experiences, […]

Who Created the Term Artificial Intelligence?

The first thing that might pop up in mind when hearing the term AI might be Sci-FI movies and shiny robots living side by side with humanity. Still, the history of artificial intelligence can be traced back to ancient classical philosophers pondering human thinking and its symbolic system. Yet achieving high concepts of AI wasn’t […]

U.S. Hits the EV Accelerator to Cut Chinese Metals Ties

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes the “largest investment ever in combating the existential crisis of climate change”, according to President Joe Biden, who will sign the bill into law later on Tuesday. Around $369 billion of federal funds will flow into climate change and energy security, boosting domestic capacity to produce wind turbines, solar […]