Blockchain-Based Startups Empower Individuals to Identify Fake News Back in 2017, a man named James McDaniel confessed that he had created a fake news website to test how gullible Internet readers could be. “As I continued to write ridiculous things they just kept getting shared and I kept drawing more viewers,” he told Politifact. In … Continue reading Blockchain-Based Startups Empower Individuals to Identify Fake News
iSunOne, a financial services company, has collaborated with Malaysia Productivity Council (MPC) to develop the first-ever Islamic financial network based on blockchain technology. Explicitly, MPC was created as a joint undertaking between the Malaysian federal government and the United Nations Special Fund. iSunOne is expected to be allocated more funds for the project, whereas MPC … Continue reading iSunOne-MPC Partnership to Develop First-Ever Islamic Financial Blockchain System in Malaysia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a meeting with stakeholders to discuss its plans to usher in “A New Era of Smarter Food Safety .” The meetingwill take place on October 21st, with the aim of gathering input and feedback to help shape an FDA blueprint for the initiative. The FDA will propose leveraging … Continue reading US FDA Calls Meeting on Blockchain, AI and the New Era of Smarter Food Safety
The DHS has implemented a number of rapid POC projects to investigate the usefulness of blockchain in border management. In a novel and innovative approach, the DHS is working directly with trade members from the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) working group, including customs broker Customs Direct LLC. In this role, Customs Direct has … Continue reading Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Trials Blockchain Solution for Canadian Borders
This article is contributed by our content partner, Nexchange group. Who said fundraising was hard? Well, definitely not Stripe. According to CNBC, San Francisco-based payments startup Stripe has just raised another $250 million in funding, bringing its valuation from $22.5 billion to $35 billion. Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz General Catalyst were among the investors that … Continue reading Fintech Startup Stripe Reaches $35 Billion Valuation
In October 2018, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) announced a wide array of new initiatives, enhanced programs and support services aimed at strengthening and accelerating the growth of Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology (I&T) sector and startups. To support its key strategy of grooming promising technology startups—HKSTP operates effective startup incubation programs to turn … Continue reading Hong Kong Science and Technology Park: Turning Tech Startups' Visions into Reality
GrainChain is an agricultural start-up backed up by Medici Ventures and has shown some prospects so far with plans to bring together the coffee industry of Honduras. Medici Ventures is a blockchain venture arm of online retail giant Overstock and has offered considerable support to GrainChain for some time now. According to an announcement on … Continue reading Blockchain-based Agricultural Startup Plans to Unite the Coffee Industry of Honduras
Tech conglomerate Cisco and decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) firm SingularityNET have reached a partnership to develop a decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) project. The ambitious project aims to create more advanced AI technologies that will soon be able to exceed human abilities to learn and perform new tasks. AGI is an emerging new field of AI that … Continue reading Cisco Partners with SingularityNET to Decentralize Artificial Intelligence with Blockchain
Uruguay Can, one of the major cannabis production companies in South America, and Aeternity, an open-source blockchain firm intended for decentralized applications, have partnered in developing a supply chain management platform based on the blockchain technology. The collaboration will permit the tracking and registration of cannabis strains from the initial seed stage to the final … Continue reading Aeternity Partners with Uruguay Can to Track Cannabis Production Using Blockchain
The greatest barrier for migrating several services online is the ability to verify users’ identities and secure data of that service. Today, online verification relies on a password or the application of dual-factor authentication. But the challenges of these techniques are that passwords are highly insecure while dual-factor authentication relies on sending code over SMS … Continue reading How This Startup’s Blockchain Technology Applications in Estonia Verifies Online Identities