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Andre Cronje reviews the Harmony Open Consensus blockchain code. A year ago he would have considered it 'phenomenal'... but now?

TLDR: given a base layer blockchain that offers slow asynchronous cross-shard transactions, we can emulate fast asynchronous cross-shard transactions as a layer on top. This is done by storing “conditional states”, for example if Bob has 50 coins on shard…

Letter to Shareholders from Jamie Dimon, Annual Report 2018.

The human face is unique yet universal, mechanical yet expressive, modern yet ancient. For over 4 million years, our features have slowly morphed into what we see today in the mirror, a brief stop on the way to who knows what.

Dean Radin, PhD, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), speaking at the 2016 Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, AZ.

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The real danger of an AI arms race isn't that another country would win; it's that unsafe technologies would make everyone lose.

Turkish inventors have created a new building material that is five times stronger than titanium and has the density of wood planks. Most remarkably, this new “Metallic wood” is lighter than [...]

Central bankers aren’t omniscient. A linked-currency system could improve economic growth.

Close associates to former Algerian President Bouteflika were arrested as part of a drive to end corruption

Watch the Hayabusa2 spacecraft toss a bomb toward an asteroid called Ryugu.