Unlike a number of companies operating in either the cryptocurrency field or facial recognition space, Kairos Inc. is not exactly new. The artificial intelligence firm has built a specialty over the past six years in identifying faces from videos, photos and even the real-world with significant speed and accuracy. “We can find one person in a ...

There are a lot of technology-oriented conferences held throughout the year that claim a “global” title. The Global Women in Data Science Conference held this month at Stanford University was one such event that lived up to its international billing. Through Facebook Live and other online broadcasts, the conference had more than 100,000 participants at ...

For a company that helps clients plan and run their businesses, Anaplan Inc. practices what it preaches. The firm’s relatively new management team is in the midst of its own planning transformation, which involves nurturing healthy growth, pursuing business overseas and adding technology to make its products smarter and more user-friendly. With a unicorn valuation ...

Since its founding in 1793, Toronto, Canada, has been known for a number of “firsts.” It was the birthplace of the first shopping mall, the first European-style coffee house and the first hairless sphynx cat. And in April, another milestone will be added to Toronto’s leading list: the first all-women’s blockchain hackathon. Female hackers will meet ...

Half of all small businesses fail in the first four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For technology startups, that number can range from 70 to 90 percent, depending on the source.

The initial coin offering market was white hot in 2017, raising a record $4 billion in capital investment. Data also shows that of the 902 token sales launched last year, 46 percent of them have already failed. Nevertheless, investors aren’t deterred from continuing to dive into the token pool, nor have companies shied away from ...

As guests mingled among the appetizers and food at Accenture’s Technology Vision event last month in San Francisco, California, jazz music played in the background. The band improvised a number of classic standards, which was noteworthy because one of the players was Shimon, a robot, and it was playing a mean marimba. The presence of ...

Cryptocurrency investor Bradley Rotter likes talking about technology with teenagers because he says they have a good sense of not just where tech is now, but where it may be going. The vice chairman of Rivetz Corp. first heard about cryptocurrency from a 15-year-old, and another member of the teen set persuaded him to purchase his first token in ...

Ethereum, a decentralized platform for applications powered by Ether cryptocurrency, has emerged as a major player in the world of smart contracts. These contracts, computer programs stored on the blockchain, can execute agreements between parties in multiple ways, thanks to the work of an important sector of the technology ecosystem: developers. “We were really good ...

With the rise of digital currencies and other use cases based on the ultra-secure blockchain technology, software developers have a unique opportunity to create new protocols that have real value. Meanwhile, industry analysts openly wonder whether some technology companies, sitting complacently on legacy models, are missing the significance of fast-moving developments in the cryptocurrency world. ...