From MIT Technology Reiew: The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue. Various high profile individuals from the

Arxiv.org paper: Due to the “basic AI drives” mentioned above, an unsafe AGI will likely be motivated to falsify tests or monitoring mechanisms to manipulate the researchers into thinking it’s safe, to

From MIT News: Platform analyzes big data to answer plain-language business queries in minutes instead of months Now MIT spinout Endor has developed a predictive-analytics platform that lets anyone, tech-savvy

From MIT News: General-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. Artificial-intelligence research has been transformed by machine-learning systems called

From CoinBureau: Vyper is a smart contract language paradigm deriving from Python 3 syntax and conventions and targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The EVM is a simulated global singleton computer

From CoinBureau: Directed acyclic graphs are a general category in graph theory, computer science and mathematics which essentially constitute a topological ordering where vertices (e.g., a nodes, tasks

via MIT news: New research describes a price-optimization method to increase online retailers’ revenue, market share, and profit. How can online businesses leverage vast historical data, computational

From qz.com: That doesn’t go down so well with Muslim nations. In the Islamic faith, it’s believed that economic activity should be based on real, physical assets, not speculation; observant Muslims also

From EthereumNews: Tipping Nano (NANO) on Twitter to other fellow users just become easier using the Nano Tip Bot (@NanoTipBot). This means that the popular social media coin known as Reddcoin (RDD) just

Crypto-lines: Anti-money laundering software maker, Chainalysis Inc is expanding its operations to cover more cryptocurrencies as the demand for more secure transactions rises. Jonathan Levin, the firm’s

From Bloomberg: The former chief executive officer of the once-largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, said he no longer is a Bitcoin believer, and sounded pessimistic about cryptocurrencies in general. “The

Introducing DAOStack — a framework for DAOs (which is a DAO) Decentralized Governance Matters: In consensus systems, increasing the threshold for consensus increases resilience but lowers scalability,

via cryptodaily.co.uk: Now that the initial hype around cryptocurrency has died down, attention has switched to the relationships that cryptocurrencies can build with companies to increase usage. Ripple

From Reuters: Reuters has found several blockchain projects launched by major financial institutions that have been shelved, as development of the technology enters a hype-meets-reality phase. The casualties

via NYTimes: In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that would later provide services for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, reached out with a request on Amazon’s “Mechanical

From Cryptoslate: Augur is a decentralized oracle and prediction markets platform, built to conform to the logic of the Ethereum network protocol. Prediction markets as such are event derivative markets

From Coinbureau: Vyper is a smart contract language paradigm deriving from Python 3 syntax and conventions and targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The EVM is a simulated global singleton computer

From techworm: Symantec, a cybersecurity company, have found that cryptocurrency coin miners have grown by a massive 8,500 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 in so-called ‘crypto-jacking’ cyberattacks.

Second Economist Article mentioning IOTA: Another project, called IOTA, operates a similar scheme. Bosch, a German engineering giant, thinks that it could use IOTA to earn money from the data its domestic

From BoingBoing: In some ways, this is normal: security is a process, not a product, so technologies thought to be secure are often revealed to be defective in some way and need to be patched. But the