As the Cost of College Rises, Online Education Becomes a Promising Alternative
Online education provides a cheaper alternative to the declining value of a college education as tuition rates inversely rise.
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Nurse Assistant Robots Offer a Win-Win for the Health Care System
By filling nurse shortages with Nurse Assistant Robots, human nurses can be more productive, adding quality to the patient experience while lowering costs.
Are Solar Roadways the Future? Only At a Very Steep Price
Solar only produces 5 out of every 1000 Wh generated in the US over forty years after its invention. Are Solar Roadways the Future?
Investing in the Bioinformatic Space: It’s Not Just the Software – Hardware Counts, Too
The declining cost of genomic sequencing is creating a demand for tools, like bioinformatic algorithms, to handle the increasing amount of biological data.
What If Ethereum Lived on a Treap? Or, Blockchains Charging Rent
Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node must process every transaction, is a very hard problem, and all suggested solutions rely on either highly advanced crypto…
On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be. Who is going to receive the currency units, at what time, and what is the mechanism that decides? Despite the crucial importance of thi…
Google’s Driverless Car: A Massive Data Request
Google’s (GOOG) autonomous car project is unique because of the massive autonomous car data request to make its cars truly autonomous.
Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work
Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a mining algorithm that is guaranteed to remain CPU-friendly and resistant to optimization by specialized hardware (ASICs) in the long te…
The Xbox and Ethereum’s Dual Mandate
The Necessity to Build and Launch an Ecosystem on Genesis Day Imagine if Microsoft released the Xbox and there were no games. On the day on which the Ethereum genesis block is created, many of the elements of the ecosystem — core infrastructure, minin…
What is Ethereum? Project, Platform, Fuel, Stack.
What is Ethereum, the Project? The Ethereum Project is an open source, community-driven effort designed to create a next-generation distributed application platform intended to be maximally flexible and powerful in the possibilities that it enables. Wh…
Graphene: Worth the Hype?
Analysts have dubbed graphene a “wonder nanomaterial”, however, Graphene may still be decades away from proving itself as a viable commercial product.
DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide
One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept of decentralized autonomous entities. There are now a number of groups rapidly getting involved in the space, includi…
The Veracyte Afirma Test: A Case Study for the Promise & Need of Molecular Diagnostics
Molecular diagnostic tests, such as Veracyte’s Afirma Test, are the solution to the problem of costly unnecessary surgeries.
Serpent upgrades: More Fun Stuff
Over the past two weeks our primary focus has been getting all of the clients updated to PoC5 compatibility, and it definitely has been a long road. Among the changes to the VM include: The new init/code mechanism: basically, when you create a contr…
Adidas Smart Shirts
Adidas Smart Shirt | Adidas’ (ADS) Textronics group has created fabrics for the first commercially available products with promising applications in sports
Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks
The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations to come out of the cryptocurrency space. In the past twenty years, we have seen a growing centralization in…
Outer Space: A New Investment Frontier?
SpaceX and Skybox | As the barriers to entry diminish, companies like SpaceX and Skybox continue to innovate the industrial world. Cheap Space Exploration.
Is Social Media Use Approaching Saturation?
Social media users are running out. A primary driver of the past decade’s growth is diminishing. Social Media companies will have to widen their scope.
Autonomous Cars Will Save Thousands of Lives per Year in the US
Autonomous cars will save lives, prevent injuries, and stimulate the country by adding $50 billion annually back to the economy. (Tesla, Google, Volvo, GM)
Does Tesla’s Gigafactory Make Sense?
Tesla is going to need a Gigafactory to meet growing EV demand for lithium-ion batteries. | ARK Research, Industrial Innovation