Mellisa Tolentino
Latest from Mellisa Tolentino
MIT researchers use Big Data to predict Bitcoin’s value
Big Data can be useful for predicting all kinds of stuff, like natural disasters, upcoming trends, the spread of diseases and more. Now, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems are using data analytics to predict fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin. Principal investigator Devavrat ...
A new messaging app called “Gems” wants to pay its users in Bitcoin
A new social messaging platform aims to reward users with Bitcoin for spending time on it. Most social networks and messaging platforms make money from selling information about their users to advertisers. That’s what Gems – the world’s first social currency network – wants to do as well. But instead of keeping all the revenues ...
Our favorite hoverboard movie scenes
Calling all Marty McFly wannabes, there’s a real hoverboard hitting the crowdfunding scene in hopes of going into production. The Hendo Hoverboard is currently raising funds on Kickstarter Inc., looking to make all our McFly dreams come true. But what exactly is a hoverboard? The “Back to the Future” movie franchise that made hoverboards famous depicts ...
Never lose your umbrella again with Blunt + Tile integration
This week’s Smart Living roundup features the world’s first traceable umbrella, a smart way to accept packages, and a retail giant’s new focus on smart, connected products.. Blunt + Tile = first traceable umbrella For Londoners and Seattleites, never worry of misplacing your umbrella again. Blunt Umbrellas UK Ltd. has partnered with Tile Inc., ...
Apple Pay 101: Setup, security and where it works
Apple Inc. has officially launched Apple Pay this week, a payments systems integrated with its Passbook app to centralize and simplify retail and online purchases. When Apple introduced Apple Pay alongside the new iPhones back in September, CEO Tim Cook mentioned that there are over 220,000 locations in the United States that have payment terminals with Near ...
What you missed in the Smart World: Siri for homes and more
This week’s Smart World Series highlights the latest innovations in health monitoring, a new way for you to talk to your smart home, Asia’s influence in global smart city adoption trends, and new developer tools for analyzing and streamlining Internet of Things apps. For those who missed last week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the ...
New IoT tools for app analytics and streamlining
This week’s Smart DevOps roundup features a new Internet of Things (IoT) service from a tech giant, a new way to streamline the delivery of IoT apps, and one of the first analytics platforms for IoT. IBM Internet of Things Foundation IBM recently unveiled a new service called the IBM Internet of Things Foundation, ...
Full specs on iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3
Apple Inc. has released new versions of its popular products this week, and despite the not-so-splashy announcements, at least the iPhone maker had fun with the launch event. In today’s era of leaked images and real-time information dissemination, the shroud of secrecy surrounding upcoming Apple devices is little more than an invisible cloak. To lighten things up ...
Bitstamp issues final notice for users to verify accounts
Bitstamp Ltd. has issued a final warning for its users to get themselves verified, warning that failure to do so will result in their funds being seized and their accounts being terminated. Bitstamp’s final notice reads: We kindly ask all unverified account holders with a balance to get verified within 28 days of this announcement. ...
How Asia will drive Smart City adoption
This week’s Smart City roundup features the latest predictions for the smart and connected office, expectations for Asia to heavily invest in smart infrastructure, and a deal that will improve China’s IT infrastructure. Smart office market to be worth $43.31B in 2020 MarketsandMarkets Inc. published a new report looking at global trends for smart ...