Euroclear to press ahead with blockchain pilot for commercial paper
Securities house Euroclear said on Wednesday it would push ahead with building a pilot blockchain-based platform for issuing and settling commercial paper transactions used by...
Is China’s electric dream in danger?
A once thriving electric vehicle industry in China is starting to feel the pinch from Beijing putting the breaks on its generous subsidy plans and...
Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions face privacy concerns, political backlash
Facebook Inc announced ambitious plans on Tuesday to launch a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, part of an effort to expand into digital payments that...
Electric dreams in danger as funding dwindles for China’s Tesla challengers
Last year, Wei Qing and his private equity investment team visited more than 20 Chinese electric vehicle manufacturing startups....
U.S. agency to vote on auctioning key unused parts of 2.5 GHz band for 5G
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote in July on whether to auction a key band of largely unused 2.5 GHz spectrum to help advance...
Google invests $1 billion to ease housing shortage near California headquarters
Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Tuesday it would set aside $750 million in land and $250 million in financing to spur developers in the San...
U.S. regulator accuses head of defunct British bitcoin company of $147 million fraud
A U.S. commodities regulator has filed a lawsuit accusing a defunct British cryptocurrency company and its former principal of fraudulently misappropriating at least 22,858,322 bitcoin...
U.N. surveillance expert urges global moratorium on sale of spyware
The world should impose a moratorium on the sale and use of surveillance software until there are rules in place to stop governments using it...
AI smart speaker tech means Alexa can always hear you
Artificial intelligence can cancel out background noise and ensure your smart speaker can still hear you no matter how noisy the room is. Stuart McDill...
Cookbook serves up insects and algae as future foods
Food innovation cookbook “Future Food Today”, by IKEA-backed research lab Space10, is a collection of sustainable recipes using ingredients such as dried grasshoppers and mealworms....
