The world’s leading blockchain asset financial services provider to host first Blockchain Festival in Vietnam Vietnam — May 10, 2018 — Huobi.Pro, the world’s fourth largest digital asset exchange, announced today the agenda and speakers for the 2018 Blockchain Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on May 24-25. Hosted by Huobi.Pro, the two-day Blockchain Festival will feature more than […]

Study recovers oldest viral genomes, and shows the hepatitis B virus has been circulating in Europe for at least 7,000 years. An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Kiel has successfully reconstructed genomes from Stone Age and Medieval European […]

As the central technology for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, blockchain has been touted as a disruptive solution for the financial environment. However, as blockchain as developed, other non-financial applications have developed. These include everything from cloud storage and contracts to online security, fraud detection, and the Internet of Things connectivity. However, there’s even more that blockchain can […]

MOSCOW/WALLDORF, Germany – Most Western technology companies are losing ground in Russia under the weight of restrictive rules and mounting local competition. Germany’s SAP (SAPG.DE) is thriving. SAP is the clear leader in the Russian business-planning software market, supplying 53 of the top 100 Russian companies by revenue, according to a Reuters analysis of company […]

U.S.-based mobile stock trading app Robinhood has announced a $363 million Series D funding round that it says will help the firm expand to become possibly the largest cryptocurrency platform. According to a statement published on Thursday, the funding round values the firm at $5.6 billion and was led by DST Global, with Iconiq, Capital G, Sequoia Capital […]

Israel says it has struck almost all of Iran’s military infrastructure inside Syria in its biggest assault since the start of the civil war there. The strikes came after 20 rockets were fired at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights overnight. Syria’s military said the Israeli “aggression” had killed three people. There was […]

More than 37 million people are expected to travel through the United Kingdom in 2018. And while most will be there to take in the country’s rich history, many more will undoubtedly make the journey to take in the biggest event of the year: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding. According to Visit Britain, the couple’s nuptials will […]

Jennifer Lopez says that a Met Gala red carpet proposal was “amazing,” but not quite what she has in mind for herself when the time comes. Lopez appeared on Wednesday’s Today, where she talked about the fashion and the magic of the Met, her favorite dress, which was worn by Juliette Binoche, and the sweet moment when rapper 2 Chainz proposed to his […]

So you don’t have to worry so much about phishing — at least if websites support the new technology. With Mozilla’s release of Firefox 60 on Wednesday, web browsers will start letting you log into websites without a password — an important change in authentication technology that could help curtail costly phishing attacks. Firefox 60 supports technology called Web Authentication, […]

ESO telescopes find first confirmed carbon-rich asteroid in Kuiper Belt An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team found that the unusual Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich asteroid, the first of its kind to be confirmed in the cold outer […]