State-owned KT Corporation, South Korea’s largest telephone company, has announced the launch of its blockchain-powered commercial network. The firm has built a blockchain layer on top of its existing nationwide network in order to make it “more secure and transparent,” according to an article by The Korea Herald published Tuesday, July 24. The news outlet reports the head of KT […]

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase now offers a way for customers to purchase retail goods and services using crypto assets, thanks to a new partnership with a digital gift card startup. According to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday, Coinbase has integrated its wallet services with WeGift, a London-based online gift card platform, and now allows users to […]

By Milena Miller Sporting venues have been using displays for a while now, to showcase the scores and capture big plays. Some venues, however, are beginning to look at other ways to use digital signage to build up fan engagement and excitement. They can do this with dynamic social media content, better analytics and clearly defined […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed making a decision on whether to approve five bitcoin-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs) until September, public documents reveal on Tuesday. In the latest edition of the Federal Register, the SEC explains that it is postponing any decision over the possible approval of ETF proposals filed by Direxion Investments […]

Lack of condemnation of rapper’s ‘I Admit’ reveals culture untouched by #MeToo movement R Kelly is sorry. Sorry he’s been accused of mistreating women, sorry parents have, by his telling, pushed their teenage daughters on him, sorry that the Women of Colour wing of the Times Up movement is campaigning for record labels to boycott […]

Canadian company aims make the world’s first beer brewed from cannabis as country prepares to legalise drug in October Scientists in a small laboratory in Ontario, Canada, are testing enzymes and experimenting with fermentation. Their techniques are not new, but their focus is a first. They are developing what is being described as the world’s first beer […]

Venue is a mobile device app highlighting a variety of activities around college campuses; University of Toledo will be the test site. Three Monroe men recently launched an app targeting college students. Reese LaBudie, 19, and Kyle Spare and Banty Hill, both 20, created Venue, an app highlighting a variety of activities around college campuses. […]

It was revealed at E3 last month that Microsoft  was building a cloud gaming system. A report today calls that system Scarlett Cloud and it’s only part of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox strategy. And it makes a lot of sense, too. According to Thurrott.com, noted site for all things Microsoft, the next Xbox will come in two flavors. One will […]

Our nearest galactic neighbor, the spiral Andromeda galaxy, seems to have a history of cannibalism. New research suggests that Andromeda gobbled up another large galaxy some two billion years ago. Galactic histories are rife with uncertainty and chaos—but how much chaos? New models of galactic formation demonstrate that Andromeda may have undergone one big merger […]

US President Donald Trump has traded military threats and counter-threats with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in an exchange alarmingly similar to the fiery war of words with Kim Jong-un last year. These threats of military force are strategic rather than merely random outbursts by an unpredictable and thin-skinned President. We have seen Mr Trump’s game […]