BEIJING – China vowed on Friday to strike back quickly if the United States hurts its interests, hours before U.S. President Donald Trump was due to unveil revisions to a tariff list targeting $50 billion worth of Chinese goods. Washington and Beijing appeared increasingly to be headed toward a trade war after several rounds of […]

In the eight months since the #MeToo movement resurfaced, the women coming forward with spectrum-spanning stories of mistreatment found an ally in a man that had previously been more associated with food than feminism. But Anthony Bourdain, who died Friday at age 61, was quick to admit that his passion for advocating on behalf of victims […]

  Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg admitted that they experienced a sense of déjà vu watching coverage of the President Trump-Kim Jong Un summit, with the latter saying that the exchange was a case of “life imitating art a little too much.” Rogen and Goldberg directed the 2014 movie “The Interview,” about a talk-show host […]

A new report from Google has revealed that little has changed despite a commitment to increasing diversity among staff employed by the tech giant. Overall nearly 70% of Google staff were men, as has been the case since 2014. In the US almost 90% were white or Asian, 2.5% were black and 3.6% Latin American. […]

Yemen’s government says its forces are not attacking the port of the rebel-held city of Hudaydah, the main entry point for aid to the war-torn country. “We are not planning to destroy the infrastructure,” Foreign Minister Khaled Alyemany said. Pro-government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, began an assault on the Red Sea city on […]

The University of Texas at Austin is among one of the first academic institutions to receive funding from Ripple, the San Francisco-based distributed ledger technology startup. The company pledged to invest $2 million over the next five years in the university’s McCombs School of Business to support its Blockchain Research Initiative, according to a report […]

Social network company Spot.IM is planning to pay employees using Bitcoin, as reported by Israeli newspaper Calcalist. However, the firm is currently negotiating with the Israel Tax Authority to receive permission for the proposed payment method, along with the proper way of calculating exchange rates. Itay Bracha, Spot.IM’s legal representative, said that salary or benefit paid to […]

By Alex Mardikian DOOH has emerged as the savior of businesses struggling to catch the attention of a wary and jaded audience that is increasingly becoming dependent on peer recommendations and customer reviews for making purchase decisions. If your business wishes to invest in DOOH, then you need to have perspective on what the technology […]

By Laura Desmond That graph above has been taken from google trends. What it shows is the amount of interest that people have shown towards the keyword “Blockchain Jobs” over the past 5 years. As can be seen, the need and the general interest in this subject has been increasing, and rightfully so. Since this […]

By Laura Desmond Understanding Ethereum Mining and the Need for Proof of Stake.  Mining is the lifeblood of all POW based cryptocurrencies. When miners “mine” to form new blocks to add to the blockchain. Miners use heavy duty computational power to solve cryptographical puzzles to satisfy a difficulty level. Understanding Ethereum Mining and the Need for a Stake/Proof of Work Hybrid […]