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If There’s a Big Idea, Your Business Won’t Stay Small for Long

The giant corporations that now dominate our attention weren’t always the juggernauts you see today. They were once small businesses hoping to find the right opportunity to break through. The success stories of many small businesses becoming huge enterprises can teach us many things and inspire us to not view the size of the companies with […]

Cryptoverse: Bitcoin Miners Escape the Bear Trap

Beleaguered bitcoin miners are finally feeling the spring sunshine after a cold, hard crypto winter. The power-hungry companies that pump new bitcoin into circulation have been thrown a lifeline by the cryptocurrency’s rally to above $30,000 this year, which has conspired with falling electricity prices to boost their profitability. The 30-day average of mining revenues […]

‘Operation Cookie Monster’: International Police Action Seizes Dark Web Market

International law enforcement agencies have seized a sprawling dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday, in a multinational crackdown dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster.” A banner plastered across Genesis Market’s site late on Tuesday said domains belonging to the organisation had been seized by the FBI. Logos of other […]

Google Says Its AI Supercomputer Is Faster, Greener Than Nvidia A100 Chip

Alphabet Inc’s Google released on Tuesday new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems are both faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia Corp. Google has designed its own custom chip called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. It uses those chips for more than […]

Will TikTok Ever Move Out of the Gun Sights of Governments?

TikTok has been making headlines ever since it debuted and went viral. Is “viral” even the right word to describe the cultural reset it triggered? Unfortunately, most of these headlines are not in the app’s favor, including adding to the mental health crisis among U.S. teens AND United Arab Emirates (UAE) teens and spreading misinformation […]

MRTs in Construction: A Tale of Two Cities

The automation of the building and architectural engineering industries has been significantly impacted by Mixed Reality (MR) technologies, which include both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). In order to enable organic and intuitive 3D interactions between people, computers, and the environment, MR offers a fusion of the physical and digital worlds. These technologies […]

Quantum Computing in Banking: Is any of It a Good Idea?

As we speak, our traditional trust-based banking system is crumbling down like a house of cards. Most experts hope that blockchain-based finance, or in other words, no-trust finance, will salvage the economy. Now, more than ever before, people are careful where they invest their money. But with the threat of malicious quantum computing use cases, […]

Musk’s Brain Implant Company in Search of Human Trials Partner

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has approached one of the biggest U.S. neurosurgery centers as a potential clinical trials partner as it prepares to test its devices on humans once regulators allow for it, according to six people familiar with the matter. Neuralink has been developing brain implants since 2016 it hopes will eventually […]