The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of the world’s largest banks by total assets, has completed the issuance of a loan worth $300,000 using a blockchain system. The bank tested the technology for the first time in one of its branches in China’s Guizhou province, issuing a loan backed by a piece of agricultural […]

LA CROSSE, Wis.- People of all different backgrounds are gathering at Riverside Park for the first annual People Fest. The Compassionate Community Faith Alliance is launching a new event to bring people together to learn about different cultures in the La Crosse Community. “We’ve been working on this for a while,” said Maureen Freedland, vice president […]

Since its arrival in Spring 2010, the iPad has gone through some remarkable changes. The change from the first to second generations was immense, for instance. The arrival of the iPad Air was a striking step forward in industrial design and has now become the model for the latest entry-level iPad. But arguably the biggest […]

Rescuers are scrambling to reach hundreds of trekkers stranded on a mountain in Indonesia after a massive earthquake triggered landslides. Early Sunday morning, a 6.4-magnitude quake rocked Lombok Island in Indonesia’s southeast, killing at least 14 people and injuring another 160. Not far from the epicenter, Mount Rinjani was hit with slides that blocked off escape routes, […]

Astronomers have seen a star’s light redden as it passed our galaxy’s central black hole, as predicted Scientists have Einstein right where they want him. Today in Garching, Germany, Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany) and his colleagues announced that they have detected the shift in a star’s light caused by the […]

LONDON – T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) named Nokia (NOKIA.HE) to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear, the firms said on Monday, marking the world’s largest 5G deal so far and concrete evidence of a new wireless upgrade cycle taking root. No.3 U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile – which in April agreed to a […]

A sixth person has died following devastating wildfires in northern California, which saw tens of thousands of people flee their homes. The latest death in the city of Redding comes despite officials saying they were “optimistic” about the fires slowing down and that they were now “gaining ground”. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said a […]

Everex, a Singapore-based financial technology firm, has partnered with Myanmar’s Shwe Bank to introduce blockchain-Powered remittance Services between Myanmar and Thailand. The blockchain firm claims that the partnership will enable millions of Myanmar migrant workers living in Thailand to send money home instantly and securely at much lower transaction costs than traditional remittance methods. Blockchain […]

Forex exchange (FX) settlement giant CLS is in the final stages of testing its blockchain payment service for banks, Financial News reported July 27. The service is reportedly set to be launched later this summer, with at least seven banks expected to sign on to the system in the early months. CLS, the New York-based global multi-currency cash settlement system, has been working with […]

BEIJING  – German carmaker BMW (BMWG.DE) said it will raise the prices of two U.S.-made crossover sport-utility vehicles in China to cope with the additional cost of tariffs on U.S. car imports into the world’s biggest auto market. In a move due to take effect on Monday, BMW said in a statement to Reuters over […]