Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Will Challenge The Global Financial Establishment
The news about Facebook’s cryptocurrency called the Libra coin is generating a lot of buzz. The stories are mixed, with some saying this is the gateway to cryptocurrency adoption. Others are concerned since Facebook...
Interpreting Machine Leaning Models: A Myth or Reality?
Despite the predictive capabilities of supervised machine learning, can we trust the machines? As much as we want the models to be good, we also want them to be interpretable. Yet, the task of...
The explosion of Unicorns on the Global Landscape
Googling a unicorn turns up a strange mythical animal in the shape of a horse with a straight horn coming out of its forehead but for the tech followers it means something else now....
Infographic: Dangers of the Internet of Things
For the 62% on US adults who own at least one connected device, it’s an easy call to say that IoT is the future of connectivity. From Alexa to Smart TVs, almost all IoT...
Technology Trends of 2020 – Algorithms in the cloud, food from printers and microscopes...
I have a growing sense – which I think I share with many readers - that people are getting used to hearing about artificial intelligence. Neural networks are making themselves at home in our...
5 Actionable Tips for Summarizing Your Data for Presentations
No matter what field you are in, giving a presentation is part and parcel of the job. You may have data to share with your team, your managers, or with stakeholders, and presentations are...
What’s Ahead for App Development in 2019
Legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks memorably said that “great moments are born from great opportunity.” When it comes to the immediate future of app development, the inverse is true: Opportunity is born from moments...
What’s Striking About The Lightning Network?
“You can think of the Bitcoin blockchain like a road, and a lot of cars want to get on the road. Right now, there’s a lot of traffic.” Elizabeth Stark, CEO and co-founder of...
Unfinished AI
Even though engineers working in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) seem to be ambitious, daily developments seem to be more mundane. For instance, Google Duplex, which according to their website is capable of conducting natural...
Digitization of Sukuks & Blockchain adoption in the Middle East
Let's start off with a little description of the investment tool called Sukuks. They have become a very popular form of alternative investment in the Muslim World since 2000, which is Sharia compliant (Islamic...
How Crypto Businesses Can Have Positive Relationships with Regulators
With more regulators circling the crypto-industry, learn how you can develop long-lasting relationships with them to minimise disruptions.
Regulators are still trying to clamp down on unregulated methods of funding like Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs),...
Why Data will Transform Investment Management
Some have called it “the new oil.” But while it bears little resemblance to the black gold, its ongoing commoditization – and its function as the ‘fuel’ of this digital era – is earning...
6 Ways to Spot an ICO Scam
Earlier this year in February, cryptocurrency news site Bitcoin.com announced the findings of its study of ICOs that were held during 2017. The most glaring result of all was that of the 902 projects...
Latin American Cloud Battlefield: Tech Giants Fighting in Public and Private Clouds
No doubt about that Cloud computing is leading in recent years the innovation in the tech industry. From the high-powered new infrastructure and more usage of the open-source options, companies are using these available...
Secret of Capitalism’s Success, from Data Science’s Perspective
Data scientists perceive the world as data-processing systems, and this view is being increasingly adopted in economics and politics: after all, we think of the economy not as consisting of a myriad of individual...
Is Amazon Going to Fail?
Amazon has changed the world for retail. But has it ever occurred to you that one day it might fail?
In 1893, Richard Sears had the idea to create a brand new departmental store called...
How is Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant in the age of Quantum Computing?
Growing up in the late '80s - early '90s was an exciting time when household Computing was becoming the new trend as Personal computers became smaller & cheaper with intuitive graphical interfaces and added...
Blockchain: The Most Useless and Overhyped Technology in History?
A recent article by outspoken NYU Stern School of Business Economist, Nouriel Roubini (A.K.A. “Dr. Doom”), claimed as much.
Roubini’s article (though admittedly argued – with a sort of neat, circular irony – from a centralised perspective) makes a...
Nouriel Roubini and Peter Van Valkenburgh Debate the Current State of Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies...
On October 11, 2018, Nouriel Roubini, a highly respected professor at NYU and economist renowned for predicting the 2008 recession, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, the director for research at Coin Center, a leading cryptocurrency...
How to Govern A.I.
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) permeates our lives in numerous subtle and not-so-subtle ways, which presents both practical and conceptual challenges for society. Many of the practical challenges stem from the manner in which AI is researched...
