Seriously, What the Hell Is a Blockchain? Blockchains are often explained with a lot of tech jargon by people in mathematics, cryptography, and network engineering. It turns out that blockchains are ...

Most people don’t know the first thing about cryptocurrencies, except that their kids made, or more likely lost, money. There’s that guy in the office who’s really into Bitcoin, but otherwise, the ...

In light of the rapid growth of smart contracts, IT leaders need to understand the roles they can play in enterprise technology. Smart contracts on blockchain have the potential to streamline certain ...

What do we curious Hackaday scribes do when we want to learn about something? First port of call: search the web. When that something is blockchain technology and we’re looking for an explanation that ...

ripe.io, a start-up at the forefront of creating a blockchain solution for our food system was a recent participant at The Mixing Bowl’s FOOD IT: Fork to Farm and recognized as one of Forbes' Top 25 ...

The 2009 launch of Bitcoin moved blockchain from theoretical to real-world use, demonstrating that this digital distributed ledger technology works. Since then, organizations have been testing how ...

Blockchain could make smart devices far more secure, but sluggish data sharing has held it back. Researchers found that messy network connections cause massive slowdowns by flooding systems with ...

What do you get when you mix IoT and blockchain -- two of the hottest technology trends in the world? We’re about to find out. At first glance, they may not seem like they have anything to do with ...

The Times’s Research and Development team conducted an experiment in surfacing news photos’ metadata to help ensure they would be used to advance the truth. By Pooja Reddy Times Insider explains who ...

I am somewhere in the middle — currency speculation, in my opinion, is nothing but a big distraction; it is improving information services that I am interested in. And I’m most interested in ...