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Blockchain: Making Crypto More Sustainable

By Dick Weisinger

Blockchain solutions have been criticized because of the huge amount of energy needed to power the currencies. Bitcoin alone consumes 150 terawatt hours of electricity annually — the same amount used by all of Argentina, a country of 45-million people.…

Security: Inconsistent Policies for Vulnerability Disclosures Creates Confusion

By Dick Weisinger

Vulnerability disclosure is the reporting of security bugs and flaws in software and hardware products. Disclosure is usually made directly to the vendor or creator of the flawed product and the exact nature of the problem is typically not disclosed…

Hardware/Software CoDesign: Application-Specific Optimized Architecture

By Dick Weisinger

Hardware/Software co-design is an approach to computing that tries to take into account both hardware and software design to create a system which can optimally perform computations for a specific task. Most computers today are general purpose and can be…

Graphene: Super Material with Unlimited Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Graphene is being heralded as a new wonder material. Graphene was discovered by researchers in the UK in 2004 and resulted in Nobel prizes for the two investigators in 2010. It is a unique two-dimensional material consisting of a single…

Data Privacy: Businesses Challenged by Global Privacy Regulations

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner identified five trends related to data privacy that business and organizations need to address over the next two years. Global Strategy – Different countries and regions and the many differing regulatory requirements for privacy need to be incorporated into…