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“We’re moving into a future where these drones will fly themselves all over the countryside,” McKenna says. “But the long-term future of this software is that it will fly people around.”With the UK’s National Grid, which operates the…

Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities. Source link

FTX US has inked a deal with BlockFi that will give the crypto derivatives exchange the option to purchase the lending firm.In a Friday Twitter thread, BlockFi CEO Zac Prince said the crypto lending firm had signed agreements with FTX US…

Peng Zhong, the chief executive officer of Ignite — formerly Tendermint and backer of the Cosmos ecosystem — has announced he will be leaving the firm.In a Friday tweet to his more than 20,000 followers, Zhong said Friday will be his…

Amid the recent volatility in the crypto market affecting investments and stock prices, many firms made significant staff cuts in the last month while others continued hiring.In June, major crypto exchange Gemini was among the first to…

In 2019, guards on the borders of Greece, Hungary, and Latvia began testing an artificial-intelligence-powered lie detector. The system, called iBorderCtrl, analyzed facial movements to attempt to spot signs a person was lying to a…

To compete with well-funded private platforms, active government and municipal intervention is vital for platform cooperatives. This could be through procurement policies that give platform cooperatives preferential treatment over…

Investment banking giant Citigroup has released research on how property technology could affect the housing market, mentioning virtual estate in the metaverse and cryptocurrency-backed mortgages.In a report released Wednesday titled,…

Giving the government final approval on whether, for instance, an algorithm could prejudice against a particular group of people, is potentially a model that could be exported elsewhere. But such power becomes menacing in the hands of an…

“China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric vehicles, and far more of that in terms of buses, trucks, and two-wheelers,” says Mazzoco. “This was somewhat of…