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Google Brain researchers teach AI to make its own encryption
Researchers at Google Brain, Google’s deep learning project, have worked out a way to teach artificial intelligence neural networks how to create their own encryption formulas. In a research paper published by Martín Abadi and David Andersen, “Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography,” the researchers put three AIs together: two that attempt to communicate secretly (Alice ...
Bitcoin Weekly: New mobile wallet technology and blockchain implementations emerge
This week two wallets made their debuts: BTCC and BitPay. China-based BTCC announced the “Mobi” mobile wallet designed for out-of-the-box quick access and ease of payments. And merchant processor BitPay announced an upgrade to its Copay wallet that will include Intel’s on-hardware security enhancements. The blockchain has also been hitting it big, with Chain Inc. ...
QuickBooks Online drives developer outreach to fuel global growth
Intuit Inc., the financial services developer of QuickBooks and TurboTax, has put third-party developers at the center of its new global expansion of its QuickBooks Online platform with an announcement today. Intuit cited a study of small businesses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia that shows a dramatic increase in cloud, app and ...
Chinese firm to recall webcams after Friday’s massive cyber attack
China-based Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co. Ltd. said today it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after researchers identified components as being targeted in Friday’s massive distributed denial of service attack. During the attack, hackers used a wide variety of Internet of Things devices across the world — including devices such as Internet-connected cameras, ...
Onchain joins with Alibaba for blockchain-powered email evidence bank
Onchain, an open-source universal blockchain system built by AntShares, today announced a partnership with China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to provide technology for the Ali Cloud, Alibaba’s cloud computing branch. The Onchain platform, called the Law Chain, will provide proof-of-existence for a blockchain-powered email evidence repository as a bottom-layer framework designed for enterprise-level use. This partnership ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Bitcoin in Europe, blockchain financial news from China and the Middle East
In this week’s Bitcoin Weekly Circle, a competitive Bitcoin web-wallet, added Euro currency support for numerous European customer and Bitcoin hardware wallet TREZOR has teamed up with European Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp. In international financial technology and blockchain news, the Chinese government has published a whitepaper on the current status quo and future of blockchain development ...
Microsoft Research paper points to touch-sensitive VR interfaces
Virtual reality headsets made by Oculus, HTC, Sony and others can drive powerful audio-visual immersion, but one aspect of immersive user interfaces is still literally out of reach. That’s what Microsoft Research aims to change. This week, Microsoft Corp.’s research arm is publishing a white paper on a pair of new prototype systems that provide ...
Popularity of Google Go language climbs, with Docker’s help
Google’s programming language Go saw a huge surge in popularity in the past year. This popularity is in part thanks to the fact that the language is the foundation of the DevOps and container darling Docker as well as Google’s container orchestration product Kubernetes. The TIOBE Index for October 2016 shows that Go is one ...
The coming AI revolution will change many jobs, not just take them away
IBM Corp.’s Watson computer has shown that computers can be taught to understand data enough to play Jeopardy and learn enough to assist doctors in healthcare decisions. Companies such as Google Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have pushed smart assistants such as Google’s, Siri, Alexa and Cortana into mobile devices and home automation systems. While still primitive, they ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Blockchain.info hit with DNS hijack, NYC startups focus more on blockchain than bitcoin
If you’re a user of Blockchain.info and saw something odd, keep reading. The popular web wallet was hit with a DNS hijack attack Wednesday. In other bitcoin-related news, Japan will soon be removing sales-tax from the purchase of virtual currencies, including bitcoins. Coinbase Inc.’s GDAX exchange is hiring new developers with knowledge in bitcoin and ...