Ping An Insurance Group, a highly reputed China-based insurance corporation has joined forces with the Sanya municipal government to develop a “smart city” that would be powered by blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technologies,” according to a local news source, People’s Daily on November 14, 2018. Per sources close to the matter, … Continue reading China’s Ping An Insurance Firm Partner With Sanya City Authorities to Build DLT-Powered Smart City – Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel
Category: Computer Tech
Xerox Awarded Patent for DLT Based Electronic Document Verification System – Aisshwarya Tiwari
According to a patent filing published November 13, 2018, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), American print and digital documents solutions company Xerox has won a patent for a DLT-based auditing system that tracks revisions to electronic documents. Increased Authenticity of Electronic Documents Per the filing, the patent was initially filed on February … Continue reading Xerox Awarded Patent for DLT Based Electronic Document Verification System – Aisshwarya Tiwari
The Best Way to Fill Your Kindle, iPad, or Tablet Without Overspending – Rick Ardman
You’re the proud new owner of a tablet or ereader! You’ve probably already made your reading list for the new year, and now your task is to download new ebooks to your device. Before you pay full-price for those books, you should know about the new site that savvy readers are practically obsessed with: BookBub. … Continue reading The Best Way to Fill Your Kindle, iPad, or Tablet Without Overspending – Rick Ardman
Microsoft Broke Windows 10 Again, Despite Warnings From Windows Insiders – Jason Evangelho
Well folks, I'm running out of ways to cleverly introduce the fact that your current build of Windows 10 may have another nasty bug. While it's not as severe as having your documents wiped out of existence, it can still be classified as very irritating for users. That's because the bug in question breaks file … Continue reading Microsoft Broke Windows 10 Again, Despite Warnings From Windows Insiders – Jason Evangelho
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers – Atul Gawande
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training. We sat in three rows, each of us parked behind a desktop computer. In one month, our daily routines would come to depend upon mastery of Epic, the … Continue reading Why Doctors Hate Their Computers – Atul Gawande
3 Things IBM Sees In Red Hat That Others Missed – Panos Mourdoukoutas
Red Hat was up for sale for quite some time, according to some sources. Several potential buyers passed on the opportunity, including Google. But not IBM. IBM paid big bucks for the open source software solutions company. At a price tag of $33 Billion. That makes Red Hat valued at one-third of IBM’s current market … Continue reading 3 Things IBM Sees In Red Hat That Others Missed – Panos Mourdoukoutas
Why Apple Is Finally Ditching Its Proprietary Lightning Connector For USB-C On All iPhones, iPads – Jean Baptiste Su
At the company's “More in the Making” event on Tuesday, Apple's vice-president of hardware engineering John Ternus revealed that the new iPad Pro will have a USB-C port - already present on the latest MacBooks - instead of the company's proprietary Lightning connector. "Because a high performance computer deserves a high performance connector. And so … Continue reading Why Apple Is Finally Ditching Its Proprietary Lightning Connector For USB-C On All iPhones, iPads – Jean Baptiste Su
6 Skills Every Developer Should Have Besides Coding Skills – Barri Sambaris
A programmer’s life, contrary to public beliefs and movies does not just involve sitting and staring all day at the computer with a headphone. It is not about how fast they can type rapidly on a keyboard while chewing a burger. Developers are more than cavemen and nerds. They are not loners in the … Continue reading 6 Skills Every Developer Should Have Besides Coding Skills – Barri Sambaris
Apple Confirms Radical New iPhone Technology – Ewan Spence
While Samsung fights the hardware behind it’s presumptively named Galaxy F folding smartphone, recently published patents show that Apple continues to experiment with the same transformational technology. Details of the new patent have been highlighted by Jack Purcher at Patently Apple. In essence it extends the previous folding iPhone patent to include new hinge arrangements … Continue reading Apple Confirms Radical New iPhone Technology – Ewan Spence
Avoid Windows 10 October Update Until You Do One Thing – Jason Evangelho
Microsoft's big Windows 10 Update version 1809 is here and it brings a wealth of welcome features like less interruptions and update nags during gaming (something Alienware nailed years ago by the way). It also takes an ambitious step toward making your PC and Android phone best friends. But (isn't there always a "but?") it's … Continue reading Avoid Windows 10 October Update Until You Do One Thing – Jason Evangelho