Following are highlights from the past week's news developments in blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things technologies:
Blockchain/Bitcoin conferences planned across Europe
Moscow-based Smile-Expo is hosting a series of Blockchain & Bitcoin conferences across Europe this year, including a first-time event scheduled for Sept. 7 in Stockholm. During another conference held in May in Prague, attendees talked about…
Following are highlights from the past week's news developments in blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things technologies:
U.S. defense contractor to incorporate blockchain into processes
Lockheed Martin announced in late April that Guardtime Federal will be a key partner to add cyber-security features to systems engineering processes, supply chain risk management and software development. In its news release,…
In today's digital business era, it can be easy to slip into believing that customers around the world all want pretty much the same things. But that's definitely not the case, as the recent departure of Uber from China illustrates.
Uber's decision to sell its China operations -- which had been losing $1 billion a year…
China might have overtaken the US' lead as the world's top carbon dioxide emitter fair and square, but it's achieved its position as a leader in green technologies through a host of unfair and illegal trade practices, according to a complaint filed today by the United Steelworkers (USW) union.
With some 850,000 members, the USW is…
Remember all those grand new eco-cities that were supposed to spring up out of bare earth in China? Yeah ... we forgot about them too.
Fortunately, Christina Larson at Yale Environment 360 hasn't, and she provides a fascinating followup of China's best-laid green-city plans in "China's Grand Plans for Eco-Cities Now Lie Abandoned."
Dongtan, once billed as…
We've all heard plenty about how people in developing countries are eager to catch up to the developed-nation lifestyle: fast food, cars, mobile phones, big-screen TVs, etc. But a new study by the consulting giant Accenture finds an intriguing difference between the populations: citizens of developing economies are apparently more concerned about global warming, and…
Plans have been unveiled for a giant 1GW solar power station in Qaidam Basin desert region of north western China.
China Technology Development Group and Qinghai New Energy Group have signed an agreement with the local government of the Qinghai Haixi region to build the solar power station, which will have an initial power generating capacity…
Climate Change Capital, the UK-based alternative investment manager, is going shopping for clean tech bargains in China.
The company is planning to invest $732m in environmental and clean tech projects in China over the next three years.
According to this report by Reuters, the company is taking advantage of the lack of credit in the current financial…
CEOs of three of China’s largest companies have made a commitment to fight global warming and play a key role in the world’s transition to a low carbon economy.
The announcement comes as research has revealed that China has overtaken the US as the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases. While the country’s output of CO2…
Like feet on Canadian coastlines or men accidentally shooting themselves in the head with nail guns, some things turn up far more often than you think. Like World Bank grants.
Not one month after the World Bank said it will be distributing $5.5 billion for clean tech projects in developing countries, the International Finance Corporation (IFC),…