A recent study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) suggests that cryptocurrency markets move depending on the type of attention they receive – unlike traditional financial markets. In contrast with other traditional financial assets, cryptocurrencies don’t behave or respond to the same set of market factors as traditional financial instruments but instead, move […]

Tech giant Tencent thinks blockchain can speed up the reimbursement of expenses for company employees, and it’s trialing a feature on its WeChat app to do just that. According to a blog post published on Friday, Tencent has piloted the application at a local restaurant in Shenzhen, China, where a user paid the bill through its existing […]

Rare Carat, an American company that helps users in finding authentic diamond rings, has partnered with blockchain firm Everledger to launch a product that will keep a track of a diamond’s price, quality and origin. The new product, known as Rare Caret Report, is completely free and can be used both offline and online. In […]

It’s not entirely clear what exactly is going on in Facebook’s nascent cryptocurrency division, but several reports suggest that something is afoot. Facebook Meets with Cryptocurrency Project Stellar The first comes from Business Insider, who reports that Facebook’s blockchain research group recently met with Stellar to discuss how the social media conglomerate could leverage distributed ledger technology (DLT) […]

Astronomers discovered that pairs of small colliding galaxies can feed their larger neighbors with gas, thereby nourishing star formation in other galaxies. Astronomers have uncovered that small galactic mergers can play an important part in fueling larger galaxies with gas, providing them with precious material that goes into the making of stars. The finding belongs […]

After leaving in 2013 to join Tesla, Doug Field has now made his way back to Apple. As noted in a report from Daring Fireball, Field is returning to Apple to work alongside Bob Mansfield on Apple’s Project Titan car team… While Apple confirmed that Field is now back at the company, Apple did not confirm that […]

Beauty junkies everywhere are rejoicing today at the news of the improvements to Sephora’s Beauty Insider Program. It looks like we’ll all be able to receive better rewards (full size products! gift cards!) for the hundreds of dollars we spend on beauty products each year. Sephora spoke exclusively with Allure magazine about the changes for all three […]

BEIJING/SHANGHAI – China’s top newspaper rebutted growing criticism in government circles that Beijing should have taken a lower profile to head off its trade war with the United States, saying on Friday that, like an elephant, China cannot hide its size and strength. The growing trade conflict is causing rifts within China’s Communist Party, with […]

By Milenna Miller Fast, cheap, good… pick any two. This concept is generally presented as a Venn diagram of overlapping circles where any two categories can be combined, but never all three. If you want fast and cheap, you can’t have good.  If you want good and cheap, you can’t have fast. It’s also referred […]

By Alisa Moon Early digital computers weren’t very useful. Sure, they were far more powerful than the punch card tabulating machines that they replaced, but they were devilishly hard to program. Instructions needed to be written in assembly code, which was time consuming and difficult. That system began to change when John Backus developed FORTRAN in the early 1950s, which replaced assembly […]