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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

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In that scenario blockchain becomes useful… We want to increase the liquidity of this asset and make it very easy for consumers to trade the physical goods for virtual goods and use the virtual goods to buy physical goods or experiences. After all the energy costs of crypto can look like an extinction level event, in and of themselves.

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Blockchain Technology: The future of startups

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Blockchain technology market has been predicted to shoot up from 4.9 These numbers are deemed to grow higher as most of the industries will continue adopting blockchain technology in future. Owing to the security and transparency blockchain offers, companies are big time investing in adapting blockchain based operations.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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Snickerdoodle Labs – Uses blockchain to build agnostic data-sharing layer that enables individuals to control and even monetize their personal data through a tokenized data architecture. swIDch – Provides secure, next-generation authentication for every digital identity environment, even off-the-network. I-EMS Group, Ltd.

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From crypto trading and home workouts to EV batteries and microLED displays, CES’ Taiwan startups cover a wide range of tech

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Startups that presented during Taiwan Tech Arena’s press conference on Sunday: All Good Energy provides an open platform for electric vehicle batteries that enables IoT functionality and constant communication with the cloud. The 3-in-1 badge features log-in authentication, data encryption and door entrance.

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Daily Crunch: WhatsApp extends its unsend time limit to ‘a little over two days’

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Mike reports that the company has bundled up the DMARC protocol, or ‘Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance’ into something easier for businesses to use. Gone phishing : Armenian startup EasyDMARC took in $2.3 Startups and VC. Watching startups play extreme hardball is our kind of spectator sport.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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Multifactor Fatigue is a new kind of attack against multifactor authentication: bombarding a user with automation requests, hoping that they will accidentally approve one. Cryptocurrency and Blockchains. Infrastructure for renewable energy is bound to be less centralized. Is it an application for a blockchain?

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

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There was one announcement after another; most new models were larger than the previous ones, several claimed to be significantly more energy efficient. trillion parameters–but requiring significantly less energy to train than GPT-3. It’s also good to see that energy efficiency has become part of the conversation.