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Con Artists Use Age-Old Scams On The Crypto Frontier
Part-1 in a four-part series on decentralized finance (DeFi) scams.
Accelerating The Journey Into The Human Brain
The most fascinating worlds lie both cosmically distant and intimately close. The recently activated James Webb Space Telescope will reveal how galaxies are formed and peer back in time to when the….
iNFTs Will Usher in Zero Marginal Cost Digital Societies
Programmable, own-able, intelligent avatars will be used to simulate individuals and entire societies. Ultimately we will have zero-marginal-cost social policy experiments.
Big Problems That Are Ripe For Startups To Solve
“What areas might a start-up have a better chance of succeeding in today, and in the foreseeable future?” I was asked that question this week on a panel for incoming….
IOHK’s Cardano Blockchain to Bolster Ethiopia’s Students’ Identities
A six-year-old nonprofit is showing that a small group of talented and dedicated people, leveraging exponentially growing technologies, can audaciously and realistically resolve to improve humanity’s future. IOHK, the Cardano blockchain….
NFTs’ Impact Can Reach Far Beyond Pricey Digital Art
Star Trek legend and blockchain advocate, William Shatner, made and sold a non-fungible token (NFT) of an X-Ray of his teeth. The entrepreneur known as MetaKovan paid $69.3million to the digital artist known….
AI Personal Identification Can See Past Our Faces
AI personal identification schemes are more and more capable of discerning who we are, and how we are. Recent research shows how our children’s virtual reality (VR) gaming systems can….
Will 3D-Printed Steaks Be A Real Business?
Most stories about cultured meat or vegetable-based meat substitutes emphasize the profound environmental and health benefits. Those benefits are vital and true, but I want to focus on whether lab-made….
Brain-Machine Interfaces Are Rich In Potential And Hype
R&D is accelerating in the vital field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI). Elon Musk recently disclosed in a Clubhouse interview that at Neuralink, his BMI venture, a monkey is playing video games via neural….