article thumbnail

5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

Although blockchain technology is still in its early days, momentum has been building in the enterprise. While there has been much focus on blockchains in banking and payments, its impact has already extended far beyond finance. When a land title changes hands, it would be verified via the blockchain, and recorded again.

article thumbnail

Digesting 2022

O'Reilly

A quick Google search will show that anxiety about an end to AI funding has continued through the year. And while I haven’t mentioned Google and Facebook, they have demoed equivalents to most of these applications. And there isn’t a blockchain or a token in sight. Which does lead us to blockchains and crypto.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. After decades of pain, we have finally concluded that hierarchies of concepts don't work. That's not an obvious statement at all. After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. seconds with the system. There more.

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018

High Scalability

photons ever emitted in the universe; 0.00% : blockchain success rate; Quotable Quotes: @math_rachel : About half of > 200 people seeking visas for @black_in_ai #NeurIPS2018 were denied. 2: Alphabet (Google); No.3: . $181.5M : top 10 YouTube star earnings; 153 million/1.2 This is a huge issue harming our field. 1: Amazon; No.2:

Internet 163
article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

million : US Nintendo Switch sales; 40+% : Rust users feel productive; 15 terabytes : monthly measurements of third-party web transparency tracking data; $133.20 : total music sales by Imogen Heap on blockchain; 8.3 They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. million : concurrent Fortnite players; 6.2 decline the year before.".

article thumbnail

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Groups can be centralised or decentralised, with decentralised groups managed by smart contracts on the AnyLog blockchain.

article thumbnail

Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rely on blockchains, but web developers are just realizing the full potential of this technology. IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon are all exploring new ways to use blockchains in 2019.