Blockchain explorers and cryptocurrency analysis sites just keep getting better. While Coinmarketcap (CMC) still dominates, these days it’s got stiff competition to contend with. Moreover, many of these platforms aren’t simply aspiring to be CMC knock-offs: they’re providing fresh tools for grasping the complexities of the ever-evolving cryptoconomy. Also read: 8Continue Reading
Respected economist Professor Steve Hanke has chanted down central banks. While Hanke doesn’t tout cryptocurrency as an alternative, he does say that the world needs fewer central banks because these government-controlled entities are messing up economies and abusing monetary policy, while fueling inflation and loss of wealth. Also read: Ex-Liberia CentralContinue Reading
The following opinion piece on Moonshots and Mushrooms was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The Social Singularity. When John F. Kennedy was president, he planted a stark and powerful, technocratic image in the minds of Americans…I believe this nation should commit itself to achievingContinue Reading
When Sophia, a robot who uses artificial intelligence to interact with humans (like Jimmy Fallon) visited my college last year, I was awestruck. At first, I thought Sophia would have a similar intelligence level as a simple bot, like Siri, who can only hold basic conversations and address straightforward questionsContinue Reading
Blink twice if you typically sleep less than seven hours each night. Go ahead. I’m not watching, or judging. But if you’re part of the one-third of U.S. adults who get less than the recommended amount of sleep each night — please, blink twice. Did you do it? So didContinue Reading
Combining PDF files usually requires the purchase or download of a decent PDF reader. But when you need to quickly merge your files, and don’t have an advanced enough PDF reader on your computer, there’s a more efficient way of combining your files than buying and downloading software. There areContinue Reading
In the fairytale Hansel and Gretel, two children drop breadcrumbs in the woods to find their way home. Nowadays, you probably don’t experience too many lost-in-the-wood experiences, but I’m willing to bet you’ve felt frustratingly disoriented on poorly designed websites. In website design, breadcrumb navigation is a way to showContinue Reading
On Wednesday, September 19, a team of developers launched a platform called the Open Savings Initiative. The application allows any Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Core (BTC) user to save funds in a time-locked address that cannot be spent until a specific date and time has passed. Also read: Critical BugContinue Reading
Over the last 24 hours, the cryptocurrency community has been discussing a critical vulnerability that was found in the Bitcoin Core (BTC) reference client. A bug introduced in Bitcoin Core version 0.14, that also affects all subsequent versions, could have caused a great majority of current Core nodes to crash.Continue Reading
I won’t lecture you on the importance of incorporating virtual reality (VR) into your marketing strategy. What I will do, however, is share a few fun facts about VR and show you nine examples of this technology used for marketing a product or a brand. By 2020, the economic impactContinue Reading
The summer might be coming to an end, but the Big Tech community is still hot with news around Google’s meaning-based algorithm update, social media leaders’ upcoming Senate appearance, and more from just this past week. Oh, and Facebook might be making a real difference against misinformation. It’s our WednesdayContinue Reading
For the past few years, augmented reality (AR) has been discussed as a useful but far-fetched solution, particularly in retail. However, partially due to the launches of Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore, augmented reality is no longer a future possibility for retail — it’s here. In fact, 75% of consumersContinue Reading
Many beginning bloggers turn to the image search in Google. But pictures found in this way are almost always subject to restrictive copyright terms. Creative Commons was created as an alternative to restrictive copyright laws, and allows authors and creators (of images, animations, music, and more) to license their worksContinue Reading
When the World Wide Web launched in 1991, most people thought it would fizzle out in a few years. Experts considered it to be a shiny, new fad that no one was really using — only six countries in the world had more than one internet user per 100 people. But whenContinue Reading