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Bitcoin Under The Skin – Why People Are Using Subdermal Microchip Wallets Dutchman Martijn Wismeijer is very cautious when it comes to storing Bitcoin – so much so that in 2014, he had two NFC (near field communication) chips surgically implanted into each hand to store his encrypted Bitcoin keys. How 10 Billionaires Faced Failure…

Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry A tremendous amount of intellectual capital is invested in the creation and marketing of fashion products. This is why some of the largest fashion houses fully utilise a variety of different IP tools in order to protect their intellectual property. Silicon Valley Powered American Tech Dominance—Now It Has a…

50 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Geospatial, Data Science, and Visualization Twitter, a global sounding board for experts, is a natural fit for this growing sector and the perfect place to bring together collective expertise for greater development and collaboration. How to map public debt data with ggplot2 Here, Sharp Sight scraped some data from Wikipedia…

China takes the lead in pioneering retail The future of retail in the world’s leading economies is increasingly expected to be not online shopping, but a melding of e-commerce and physical stores. Zuckerberg owns or clones most of the “8 social apps” he cites as competition Congress should push Zuckerberg to explain what apps compete…

14 Ways Machine Learning Can Boost Your Marketing In the digital age, marketers can’t win without mastering data, analytics, and automation. Fortunately, machine learning (ML) can already improve marketer performance on common tasks like: customer segmentation generating branded collateral extracting and classifying relevant content customer communicati overall productivity and output. A Brief Introduction to Wikidata Learn…

‘The Bay Area is broken:’ Why local startups are hiring outside Silicon Valley Silicon Valley may be the world’s tech paradise, but it’s a hiring nightmare for many local startups now forced to venture from Portland to Boise in search of talent. PayPal is starting to offer more traditional banking services like debit cards and depositing…

A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain For the first time in two decades, a huge number of books, films, and other works will escape U.S. copyright law. For several decades from 2019 onward, each New Year’s Day will unleash a full year’s worth of works published 95 years earlier.…

 Military-Funded Study Successfully Tests ‘Prosthetic Memory’ Brain Implants Scientists successfully tested what they call a “prosthetic memory” — a neural implant that can learn to recognize your brain activity when you correctly recall new information, and later replicate that activity with electrical signals to give your short-term memory a boost. Interview: Data with a location component…

Our digital future will be shaped by increasingly mobile technologies coming from China The starting point, just like a rocket’s launchpad, is only important because of what comes after. The battle to win that coveted position, although often disguised as many other things, is really a battle to become the starting point of commerce. The…

Visualizing China’s Most Ambitious Megaproject Costing between $4-8 trillion and affecting 65 countries, China’s ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative is the granddaddy of all megaprojects. (Infographic) Unison Home Affordability Report 2018 Over the past decade, home prices in almost all major U.S. cities have increased. In some cases, the rise of home prices…