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Visa buys financial technology company Plaid for $5.3B

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa is purchasing the financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion, a major push by the payment processing giant into other types of money transfer systems outside of Visa’s traditional credit and debit card business. Plaid allows consumers to link their bank accounts to financial […]

White House proposes guidelines for regulating the use of AI

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The Trump administration is proposing new rules to guide future federal regulation of artificial intelligence used in medicine, transportation and other industries. But the vagueness of the principles announced by the White House is unlikely to satisfy AI watchdogs who have warned of a lack of accountability as computer […]

Blockchain and Operators – the good kind of disruptive

Considered a disruptive technology because of the increasing realization of its ability to transform across multiple industries, blockchain removes any requirement for ‘middle men’ and reconciliation processes as it guarantees the validity of its data using shared infrastructure. At the point of creation, this data is recognised as valid by all parties and can’t be […]

IOT, Manufacturing and Maintenance

IOT is recognized as a solution involving objects that are interconnected through computing devices, enabling the transfer of data over a network without human intervention. You may think of advanced forms of technology such as AI or machine learning, others may think of smart home devices such as Amazon’s Echo, wireless speaker systems, home security […]

Tech aims to predict problems on power lines before disaster

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before they cause equipment failures, blackouts or even deadly accidents. The electrical engineering professor at Texas A&M University figured he might save a life if his creation […]