Yemen’s government says its forces are not attacking the port of the rebel-held city of Hudaydah, the main entry point for aid to the war-torn country. “We are not planning to destroy the infrastructure,” Foreign Minister Khaled Alyemany said. Pro-government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, began an assault on the Red Sea city on […]

The University of Texas at Austin is among one of the first academic institutions to receive funding from Ripple, the San Francisco-based distributed ledger technology startup. The company pledged to invest $2 million over the next five years in the university’s McCombs School of Business to support its Blockchain Research Initiative, according to a report […]

Social network company Spot.IM is planning to pay employees using Bitcoin, as reported by Israeli newspaper Calcalist. However, the firm is currently negotiating with the Israel Tax Authority to receive permission for the proposed payment method, along with the proper way of calculating exchange rates. Itay Bracha, Spot.IM’s legal representative, said that salary or benefit paid to […]

By Alex Mardikian DOOH has emerged as the savior of businesses struggling to catch the attention of a wary and jaded audience that is increasingly becoming dependent on peer recommendations and customer reviews for making purchase decisions. If your business wishes to invest in DOOH, then you need to have perspective on what the technology […]

By Laura Desmond That graph above has been taken from google trends. What it shows is the amount of interest that people have shown towards the keyword “Blockchain Jobs” over the past 5 years. As can be seen, the need and the general interest in this subject has been increasing, and rightfully so. Since this […]

By Laura Desmond Understanding Ethereum Mining and the Need for Proof of Stake.  Mining is the lifeblood of all POW based cryptocurrencies. When miners “mine” to form new blocks to add to the blockchain. Miners use heavy duty computational power to solve cryptographical puzzles to satisfy a difficulty level. Understanding Ethereum Mining and the Need for a Stake/Proof of Work Hybrid […]

A reboot of a remake is about as meta a commentary of Hollywood’s current state of originality as one is likely to find. Still, “Ocean’s 8” brings a refreshingly unpretentious quality to this all-female, numerically scaled-down heist tale, yielding a movie that’s pleasant, mildly fun and the gender switch notwithstanding, a bit of an old-fashioned […]

Upgrade your soap and water routine with these tried-and-tested formulas Step away from the soap, boys. That squeaky-clean feeling may be satisfying, but it’s created by taking natural moisture from your skin, which leads to slack, papery skin and dead cell build-up that clogs pores and highlights fine lines. Instead, we’ve been testing cleansers that […]

Baby planets growing in a disk of gas and dust around an infant star have been identified and weighed for the first time. In papers published June 13 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, two teams of astronomers describe a new technique to observe the newborn planets with unprecedented precision. One team, led by Richard Teague of […]

This article is part of our series on How to Start a Cannabis Business. We seek to promote financial inclusion through cannabis. In previous articles, we’ve looked into numerous aspects of getting into the marijuana industry, including questions you should ask yourself before jumping in and where to find funding. Until a few years ago, most cannabis brands […]