Innovation & Future

Turkey’s Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (Takasbank) announced that its blockchain-based, physical gold-backed transfer system is now live. Turkish Takasbank launched BiGA Digital Gold to provide banks with a…
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Facial recognition is becoming more common, popping up in airports, concert venues, and even churches. With the increasing presence of this technology comes heightened concerns about its privacy dangers, especially because it has been…
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Roswell has developed the first Molecular Electronics chip. Roswell uses advances in semiconductor technology, nano-fabrication and bio-sensors to create standard CMOS chips that directly integrate sensor molecules into the CMOS integrated…
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Tech is always both good and bad. But we live in a time when everything gets weaponized—ideas, images, ancient texts, biases, and even people. And technology provides the tools to do it easier, faster, and with less resources. Older…
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In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge. At any moment, someone knows where you are, or have been, and they might even be able to work out where you will go next. The work of government? Google?…
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Nervous about the self driving future? You are not alone. The AAA newsroom in March reported on the AAA’s annual automated vehicle survey which found that 71 percent of people were afraid to ride in fully self-driving vehicles. OK, people…
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s first-ever satellite has been launched into space by China. The earth observatory satellite is designed to help the East African nation gather data for agricultural, mining, and environmental protection.…
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City officials across the world are in conversation about the frequent redundancy of car parking space, comparing it to the ever-increasing need for more buildings. Whether for housing, business development, or social projects, a growing…
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Very few new software solutions coming to market at present rely solely on installations onto each user’s desktop or mobile device. Although there are plenty of products out there that enable this to happen via automated scripting…
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