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Blockchain: Financial Services Being Forced to Redefine Themselves

By Dick Weisinger

The rise in popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto coins and currencies is getting business and government to reevaluate crypto and how they should address it. Financial service companies in particular worry that cryptocurrencies could be a threat to their…

Semiconductors: A Re-Incarnated Version of Moore’s Law May Live on After 3nm Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

Moore’s law has held up for decades in accurately predicting that the chip density of integrated circuits would double roughly every two years. But the consensus has been growing that we’ve reached the point where circuits can’t shrink any further…

IoT and Open Source: Built-In Software Auto-Updates Could Make Devices More Secure

By Dick Weisinger

IoT devices are under attack. Many are old and use dated Open Source software that have known vulnerabilities. Once the devices are deployed, they are often forgotten, their software is seldom if ever updated, and they become easy targets for…

Patents and AI: Competition Grows as Businesses Stake Ground in AI Research

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence is impacting every industry, and the number of AI-related patents is rapidly increasing accordingly. A report focusing on the growth of the number of patents awarded by the US Patent Office found that the number of AI-related patents…

Effective Decisions: Governments and Businesses Attempt to Persuade by ‘Nudging’

By Dick Weisinger

How can you make better decisions? Psychologists and Economists are particularly interested in how to answer that question and have studied possible decision-making strategies and their effectiveness as far back as the 1950’s. About 15 years ago, behaviorial theories came…