Chicken and greens: $97B retail firm uses IBM blockchain to track food supply
Multinational retail giant Carrefour will use IBM’s blockchain tech to track two major food categories as part of a growing reorganization of global supply lines.
Bitcoin price nears $44K as large Coinbase outflows fail to stop the sell-off
It seems weak hands are not done selling, and data hints that institutions, as ever, are reaping the benefits.
One of Switzerland’s leading banks now offers crypto trading
Bordier & Cie partners with digital asset bank Sygnum to offer crypto trading to clients.
Apple, Google, and Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:Apple, Google, and Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter — Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri often can’t understand people with dysarthria or a stutter; their creators say that may change
Study finds video chats fatigue humans due to the intense up-close eye contact, constant self-view in real time, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load (Vignesh Ramachandran/Stanford News)
Vignesh Ramachandran / Stanford News:Study finds video chats fatigue humans due to the intense up-close eye contact, constant self-view in real time, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load — It’s not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their…
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The Case for, and Against, Climate Optimism
Will the crisis in Texas become the new normal? David Wallace-Wells and Leah Stokes discuss.
Data model seeks to fill the smart city interoperability gap
uCIFI Alliance is publicly releasing its first unified data model, which claims to provide interoperability and interchangeability between connected devices.
CDB Leasing takes tight pricing approach, meets goals
China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co rode on solid demand for its dual tranche $1bn transaction on Thursday to seal the bonds inside of fair value, hitting both its targeted price and size.
Fantasia, Sunac find demand for new bonds
Two Chinese property companies seized the market window on Thursday to raise a combined $802m from the bond market.
Data model seeks to fill the smart cities interoperability gap
uCIFI Alliance is publicly releasing its first unified data model, which claims to provide interoperability and interchangeability between connected devices.