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:
PokitDok to use Sawtooth blockchain to record healthcare transactions
The healthcare software development platform PokitDok announced on May 10 that it would use Hyperledger Sawtooth, the open-source blockchain project from the Linux Foundation and Intel, to support its DokChain offering for…
Following are highlights from the past week's news developments in blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things technologies:
Ubitquity launches new partnership in Brazil
U.S.-based Ubitquity, a company that offers blockchain-based recording and tracking of property deeds, on April 5 announced a partnership with a Brazilian real-estate registry office to create a first-ever pilot program for official land records.
Intel…
Bruce Springsteen was right: "From small things, Mama, big things one day come." In the case of the University of Michigan (U-M), a small phone call helped set off an ambitious campus-wide programme to reduce computing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
OK, maybe the phone call wasn't quite so small. It came, after all, from…
While SpectraWatt may be a name better suited to a nefarious criminal gang on the wrong side of The Avengers, it's actually the new solar unit that chip giant Intel has spun off. (Greenbang has always been afraid of the term spin-off: she imagines a company pirouetting through the vacuum of space, Silent Running…
Do you want to know how much Intel's investment arm, Intel Capital, invested in smart grid company Grid Net? Do you? Huh? Huh?
Well, Greenbang's not going to tell you. So there.
Not because she doesn't want to mind - Greenbang's not like that - but because she can't. Intel Capital has been boasting about its latest…
Think Intel and you probably think of a jingle that goes dink dink DINK DINK and back in the dark mists of history also featured blue men mucking about in some paint. Or something.
If you need to purge that gruesome image from your delicate mind and find a more friendly mental image, then let Greenbang…