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Simon Montford
Founder WEB3//IOT |
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Dr Tim Willis
Senior Editor WEB3//IOT |
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Anthony Broderick
Writer/Analyst WEB3//IOT |
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IoT Platform Wars Have Begun, Blockchain Might Foster a Win-Win for All Stakeholders
As the Internet of Things (IoT) is here to stay and blockchain has the ability the change industries, this article provides insight into how blockchain could facilitate the faster adoption of IoT in the mass market. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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A blockchain, designed in Japan, paves the future of the sharing economy
BCL Foundation has announced the launch of a project to create a full-scale public chain for enterprise from Singapore, the BCL Chain, which aims to connect the virtual and real world through the power of blockchain and IoT devices. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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China to Lead International Standardization Research Group for IoT, Blockchain Tech
China will lead an international research group on the standardization of the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology, local news outlet Science and Technology Daily reports July 18. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Blockchain Technology and IoT to Manage Supply Chains and Animal Welfare Conditions in Australia
According to the Australian Broadcasting Network (ABC), John Baird, entrepreneur and former CSIRO experimental scientist and chairman of the cybersecurity advisory council, is looking to combine blockchain technology and internet of things (IoT) technology to track the food supply chain from paddock to plate. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Can IoT and Blockchain Combo Offer a Win-Win?
Owing to the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) there is a big surge in the internet connected devices. IoT is the internet-based network of physical devices which includes home appliances, electronics, vehicles, and other appliances and gadgets that use firmware, software and sensors to not only keep them connected to the Internet, but also enables them to exchange real-time data with other systems resulting in increased efficiency, economic benefits, and less need for human intervention. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Google unwraps its gateway drug: Edge TPU chips for IoT AI code
Google has designed a low-power version of its homegrown AI math accelerator, dubbed it the Edge TPU, and promised to ship it to developers by October. Announced at Google Next 2018 today, the ASIC is a cutdown edition of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) family of in-house-designed coprocessors. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Einride’s T-log is an autonomous truck, but only for logs
Self-driving cars ferry folks from place to place. They deliver food. And starting later this year, they’ll transport wood from logging sites to sawmills. Self-funded Swedish company Einride today announced the T-log, an autonomous, all-electric logging truck that’s designed to navigate hilly, winding forest roads. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Blockchain for IoT: A Big Idea Meets Hard Design Questions
One of the most ambitious ideas in blockchain is that the technology could enable not just people and businesses to transact with each other seamlessly, but also machines. If this scenario, first articulated a few years ago, comes to pass, devices ranging from refrigerators to automobiles would not only collect and share data as part of the emerging internet of things (IoT), they would also be endowed with cryptocurrency wallets and unique, blockchain-based identities. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Kawasaki Tests Its New AUV in The Underwater Centre
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has reached an agreement with The Underwater Centre (TUC) in Fort William, Scotland, to conduct a verification test of a prototype autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with a robot arm for subsea pipeline inspection. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Roborace car to run at Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Roborace autonomous racing car will take part in the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car, which is powered by four 135kW electric motors and uses an artificial intelligence driver algorithm for guidance, will drive up the event's 1.16-mile hillclimb course. The 2018 edition of the FoS is the 25th anniversary of the event, and takes place on July 12-15. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Lego's new model is the future of construction equipment
Developed (over two years) as a Lego model first, then turned into a full-on digital prototype Volvo promises could theoretically be built “tomorrow”, it’s an autonomous, electric front-loader with a camera boom called the ‘Eye’ and a deployable scout drone. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Hitachi and Edinburgh University Working on Superfast Robots
Technology giant Hitachi is working with researchers from the University of Edinburgh to develop smart robots for warehouses and assembly lines. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh are wirking with Hitachi to create a new generation of robots for use in factory operations and warehouses which are around 40% faster then those currently in use. The system works via a smart camera, programmed with details about goods to be moved. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Which Blockchains Will Survive the Web 3.0 Protocol Wars?
Here at WEB3-IOT our aim is to track the inevitable convergence between the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) such as blockchain. One of the most heated debates in the DLT space right now is - which blockchain will form the infrastructure for the coming wave of Decentralised Applications (Dapps) that will run on Web 3.0? Anthony Broderick takes a deep dive into how Bitcoin and Ethereum' blockchain platforms stack up against EOS. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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How Innovative Startups Are Using Blockchain To Make IoT More Secure
The buzz surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) has been on for a while. And with good reason — the IoT’s promising ability to impact all aspects of life. Connecting physical objects to the Internet is probably the next big thing that will define the next century of human civilization. From communicating with objects to controlling the way they operate remotely — either at the touch of a button or in an autonomous fashion — IoT is raising the standard of modern living in a multitude of ways. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Conference Organisers: Don't Get Seduced By Crypto Fever
Before I begin, it is vital that I make one thing very clear. By writing this piece, it is not my intention to judge or undermine event organisers. They must be congratulated for all their hard work, and it’s important to remember that conferences are a platform for innovation. They facilitate connections, inspire new thinking, and enable innovators to promote themselves and obtain much-needed visibility as a result of being given a forum to speak and exhibit. It's always a great pleasure to cover our favourite conferences, and include them in our 2018 Conference Directory. We consider it as our duty to support them, so keep up the good work! Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Artificial Intelligence: What Side Of History Do You Want To Be On?
CogX is a two-day AI extravaganza that brings together the biggest, best and brightest minds in Europe to really talk about the future of AI, blockchain and the future. Hold this conference in China or the US and you'd have a completely different conversation thanks to investment levels, protectionism and talent strategies - a key theme of several of the early panels and people I spoke to. The panel on the main stage who opened up CogX in London were tasked with setting the scene for the future of AI and where we are right now. The tone set felt distinctly like we're losing to the US/China, mixed with ‘we’re on a knife-edge of bad things happening’ sprinkled with distinctly hopeful tones that potential issues are not inevitable. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Robotic cones will keep traffic flowing
Engineers are planning an army of motorised cones, designed to wheel themselves off the hard shoulder without human assistance, to follow roadworks as they progress along the motorway, and even automatically replace fallen comrades when they are hit by cars or stolen by students. The prototype devices, created by a team from the British engineering company Costain, are intended to keep roads flowing faster but also to improve safety for motorway roadworkers — for whom laying out the cones is one of the most dangerous. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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AI, IoT & Blockchain Exhibition Europe 2018: Get Involved
Three parallel tech events will take place in Amsterdam's RAI Convention Centre later this month that will showcase cutting-edge technologies from more than 300 exhibitors, and insights from 300 speakers. The total number of attendees over the two-day event is expected to be 8,000. The IoTTech, AI, and Blockchain Expos will take place on 27-28th June, and the IoTTech Expo alone will offer eight different tracks that will cover the impact of new trends within the IoT space across many different industries. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Land Rover Wants to Take Self-Driving Cars Off-Roading
Land Rover builds cars with two principles in mind: off-road capability and in-car comfiness. When you buy a Range Rover or Discovery, you’re paying for a vehicle that can clamber over boulder-strewn trails and give you a back massage at the same time. So it shouldn’t be surprising that last week the automaker announced it is developing the ultimate combination of these qualities: self-driving cars that can go off-road. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Using Blockchain to Advance IoT
Imagine two disruptive technologies come together to democratize transparency and connectivity in the tech world. That’s exactly what’s happening with blockchain technology, once synonymous with powering cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, has the potential to be a disruptor in a number of verticals and the internet of things (IoT), with blockchain addressing key IoT security concerns. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Blockchain, service-centric networking key to IoT success
Connecting and securing the Internet of Things (IoT) should be achieved with a combination of service-centric networking (SCN) along with blockchain, researchers say. The scientists, who call their IoT architecture Blockcloud, presented their ideas at GENESIS C.A.T., an innovation-in-blockchain technology event in in Tokyo recently. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Blockchain Must Adapt to Build Trust in the Internet of Things
The edge is messy. And the edge, where billions of interacting devices that will make up the Internet of Things will reside, is where IoT data is generated and acted upon. There are often no secure physical perimeters where the raw sensing of the physical world takes place: on rooftops and space stations, inside mines and aircraft engines, on container ships and solar panels. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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IBM to Hire 1,800 Employees in France for Blockchain, IoT, AI
IBM announced that it would recruit about 1,800 people in France to work in the field of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and cloud computing. The plan was revealed before a meeting between IBM’s top executives with French President Emmanuel Macron. Besides IBM, the French leader met on Wednesday with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Intel’s Brian Krzanich, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, and other big names of the tech industry. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Incoming data protection rules could scupper blockchain before it's even taken off
Legal experts believe there are "irreconcilable" differences between blockchain and the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), raising doubts as to whether the technology can achieve widespread adoption under the new data laws. The principles of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are said to have been the cause of "massive tension" in the legal community, which is unconvinced that the enforcement of basic provisions under GDPR, such as the identification of a data controller, which controls how personal information is stored and analysed, and the role of a data processor, which does the storing and analysing, will be possible. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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Kontakt.io Teams IoT Platform with IOTA’s Blockchain for Monitoring and Asset Tracking
Polish internet of things (IoT) location tracking group Kontakt.io has teamed up with the IOTA Foundation to integrate the latter’s distributed ledger technology with its platform. According to a press release Thursday, the integration will enable tamper-proof and chargeable readings of smart sensor data, equipping healthcare operators and supply chain firms — which monitor environmental conditions for compliance reasons — with fully transparent ways for storing and reporting on telemetry data. Read More | Subscribe | Social Media |
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