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Electricity Needed to Mine Bitcoin is More Than Used by 'Entire Countries'

Electricity Needed to Mine Bitcoin is More Than Used by 'Entire Countries'

Bitcoin mining - the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm - is a deeply energy intensive process

Facebook Will Pay $52 Million in Settlement with Moderators Who Developed PTSD on the Job

Facebook Will Pay $52 Million in Settlement with Moderators Who Developed PTSD on the Job

Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000. Selena Scola filed the case in California.

A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

The two tech titans funded an effort to bring metagenomic sequencing and software to poor countries. Now, it's helping trace the spread of the new coronavirus.

Humans Are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

Humans Are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.

Why Can't We Agree on What's True Any More?

Why Can't We Agree on What's True Any More?

It's not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the 'real' facts - and now we can't stop fighting about it.

A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory

A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory

Manuscript showing how Augmented Reality, which is the projection of virtual information onto a real-world object, can be applied in the classroom and in the laboratory. 

Why Universities Need 'Public Interest Technology' Courses

Why Universities Need 'Public Interest Technology' Courses

In an era in which data is everything, the risks to core democratic principles caused by technological illiteracy in policymakers, and policy illiteracy in computer scientists, are staggering.

BlockchainForScience.com

BlockchainForScience.com

Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.