WIRED has challenged computer scientist and Hidden Door cofounder and CEO Hilary Mason to explain machine learning to 5 different people; a child, teen, a college student, a grad student and an expert.
Decentralized Autonomous Organisation
Decentralized Autonomous Organisation. Quite a mouthful, which is why most people just say ‘DAO’.
But what are they? What do they do? And why should you care?
Very, very good questions.
In a nutshell, DAOs provide the framework for OPEN COLLABORATION. Which, it turns out, can be incredibly productive. How productive you ask? Well, that’s what we’re here for you silly goose!
DEFI – From Inception To 2021 And Beyond (History Of Decentralized Finance Explained)
So what’s the story behind Decentralized Finance? How has all of this started? What happened in DeFi in 2020? And where are we going in the future? You’ll find answers to these questions in this video.
Although there is no one agreed-upon date when decentralized finance was born, there were a few important events that made DeFi possible.
The first of them was the creation of Bitcoin in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Despite whether Bitcoin should be classified as DeFi or not, its inception was the key enabler for the whole cryptocurrency industry which decentralized finance is part of.
Although sending Bitcoin around the world is cool – finance doesn’t stop there. Every robust financial system needs a set of other important services such as lending, borrowing, trading, funding or derivatives.
Ethereum, with its Turing-complete programming language Solidity and the ERC20 standard for creating new tokens, quickly became a go-to smart contract platform to build on.
A giant step toward the holy grail of energy research — Scientist on fusion breakthrough
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku lauded a recent nuclear fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
“This is a giant step toward the holy grail of energy research,” said Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College and City University of New York. “To hit break-even, to extract more energy than you put in, and this could eventually become a game-changer.”
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced a key achievement in nuclear fusion that it had, back on Aug. 8, been able to produce 1.3 megajoules of energy at its National Ignition Facility, albeit very briefly. Kaku told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that the achievement was a giant step towards clean energy.
“A fusion reactor is carbon neutral, it does not create carbon dioxide, it does not create copious quantities of nuclear waste that you find in fission plants with uranium, it does not meltdown,” said the author of “The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.” “The fuel is seawater, hydrogen from seawater could be the basic fuel.”
Fusion, the lesser-known and opposite reaction to nuclear fission is when two atoms slam together to form a heavier atom and release energy. It is the way the sun makes energy.
Kaku explained some of the drawbacks to nuclear fusion and why it’s not currently an easily accessible source of energy.
“It turns out that when you heat hydrogen to tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of the sun, things become unstable, and that’s why this reaction took place over a hundred trillionth of a second, just a snap of the finger, so in other words, we want to have a continuous stream of energy, not bursts of energy, like we found here,” Kaku said.
Why Neom Might Be The Future of Sustainable Cities
With an investment of $500 billion, Saudi Arabia is touting this 100-mile-long linear city (“The Line”) as the most sustainable urban complex in the world. And one with some cutting edge renewable technologies … like generating fresh water in a desert. But will it work? Let’s explore if Neom is the future of sustainable cities.
Tesla Bot vs Boston Dynamics Atlas! (Watch their reveals)
Tesla just announced its first humanoid robot, which it’s calling Tesla Bot. Boston Dynamics has been working on its own humanoid robot for more than 10 years. Watch how both bots compare.
Elon Musk REVEALS Tesla Bot (full presentation)
At Tesla AI Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Bot. The humanoid robot is designed to perform general robotic tasks for humans.
What Is Tokenization?
Tokenization allows a purchaser to buy things without sharing sensitive data, such as credit card info. Tokenization is more secure since private data is not shared.
DEFI – The Future Of Finance Explained
So what’s the future of finance? Is decentralized finance better than the current financial system? What problems does it solve? And does it have a chance to improve or completely replace traditional finance? You’ll find answers to these questions in this video.
Instead of relying on old and inefficient infrastructure, Decentralized finance, or DeFi, leverages the power of cryptography, decentralization and blockchain to build a new financial system.
A system that can provide access to well-known financial services such as payments, lending, borrowing and trading in a more efficient, fair and open way.
Cardano ADA Tokenomics: Understanding Market Cap & Circulating Supply
Taking a dive into Cardano ADA Tokenomics to help better understand market cap, circulating supply, and how it fits into the broader ecosystem.