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• Buffett dumps $800M worth of Apple stock, invests in biotech and groceries

  Berkshire Hathaway still owns more than 5% of Apple, despite unloading almost a billion dollars worth of stock in the last ...

  • David Canellis

• The dongle-hiding Lenovo ThinkBook 14 is great if you get the right screen

  There’s a lot to like about the discreet, no-nonsense Lenovo ThinkBook 14 laptop - but I'm most excited about its hideaway ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• India finally commits to quantum computing, promises $1.12B investment

  The Indian government said today it plans to invest ₹8,000 crores ($1.12 billion) in quantum computing research over five ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 2019 was a huge year for quantum computing

  2019 was the biggest year for quantum computing since, well, ever. It's the year IBM put a quantum computer in a box and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM's efficient new battery for gadgets doesn't require mining for heavy metals

  IBM Research's new battery design eschews nickel and cobalt for three new materials that can be extracted from seawater, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Moonday Mornings: US arrests Ethereum dev for teaching North Korea about cryptocurrency

  Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you shouldn't ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• This fish-farming Mitsubishi subsidiary just put salmon on the blockchain

  Norweigian fish farmers Cermaq are using blockchain technology to track salmon from 'egg to plate," but it'll be only for ...

  • David Canellis

• IBM's 'Code and Response' documentary proves developers can be superheroes too

  IBM's upcoming “Code and Response” documentary is an hour-long tour-de-force showcasing several developer-activists using ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Nestlé and Carrefour just put baby milk formula on the blockchain

  Organic milk powder is the latest thing to be put on the blockchain, thanks to two of the biggest players in worldwide foods. ...

  • David Canellis

• Blockchain devs looking for work are spoiled for choice right now

  Despite regulatory concerns, businesses are still pushing forward and hiring for blockchain and cryptocurrency positions. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google and IBM fight for ‘quantum supremacy’ — but they’re both wrong about it

  Google claims to have demonstrated something called “quantum supremacy,” in a paper published in Nature. This would mark ...

  • The Conversation

• IBM joins ING in saying central bank digital currencies are on the way

  ING isn't the only institution that's expecting central bank digital currencies to be a thing quite soon, IBM also says they ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• IBM quantum physics researchers make atoms dance on a needle's point

  IBM Research today revealed a breakthrough nanotechnology technique that allows researchers to position individual atoms ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Study: Facial recognition AI's alright, if you're cisgender and white

  I'm a cisgender white male. I can unlock my phone, sign into my bank account, and breeze through border patrol check points ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Autonomous 'Mayflower' to sail across the Atlantic 400 years after the original

  The Mayflower set sail from England in 1620 carrying approximately 130 Pilgrims across the Atlantic ocean to The New World. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM announces 2019 Call For Code grand prize winner

  IBM today announced the 2019 Call for Code grand prize was awarded to Prometeo for developing a health monitoring platform ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Moonday Mornings: Investigations into UK crypto businesses rise 74% in 1 year

  Welcome, it's time for Moonday Mornings. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• The Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab just bought a 5,000-qubit quantum computer

  D-Wave today announced its next generation “Advantage” quantum computer system. It'll pack a whopping 5,000 qubits and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Meet the finalists for IBM's $200K Call for Code competition

  The 2019 Call for Code challenge is coming to a close as partners IBM and David Clark Cause are set to announce the grand ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Moonday Mornings: IBM wants to put your browser history on the blockchain, forever

  Welcome to another Moonday Mornings. Let's waste no time and take a look at the weekend's cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Malware attacks on infrastructure and state-run facilities shot up 200% in 2019

  A new IBM research warns destructive attacks devised with an intent to wipe data and shut down critical systems have increased ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Listen to this AI chat up a frustrated telemarketer for 15 minutes

  Telemarketers are the bane of our existence. With the rise of robocalls and automated bots meant to call hundreds of numbers ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Here's what you need to know about IBM's new open-source Data Asset Exchange for AI

  IBM's Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT) recently unveiled a pair of carefully curated databases designed ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The New York Times wants to fight fake news using blockchain – good luck to it

  The New York Times has announced that it's working on a "news provenance project" based on blockchain technology in an attempt ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google expected to achieve quantum supremacy in 2019: Here’s what that means

  Google's reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could ...

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM's Call for Code Starter Kits are a perfect intro to coding and AI

  IBM recently debuted technology Starter Kits to aid those joining the company's Call for Code challenge. Anyone interested ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Nestlé plans blockchain pilot for its palm oil, but it won't run on IBM tech

  Nestlé says it will start piloting a DLT system to help with its problems with transparency. First, it will put milk on ...

  • David Canellis

• This IBM Code Pattern makes it easy to create your own object recognition AI

  IBM developer Nicholas Bourdakos recently created a new Code Pattern that lets just about anyone develop and train an AI ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How 3D spintronics will take hard drive performance to the next level

  Spintronics might not be the sort of word that comes up in everyday discussions, but it has been revolutionising computer ...

  • The Conversation

• 3 years later, Visa’s blockchain-powered payment network finally goes live

  Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• IBM is giving away 1,500 DJI drones to help with natural disasters

  IBM's Developer Drone Drop 2019 contest is officially underway. Now through June 16 the company will give away 1,500 drones ...

  • Tristan Greene

• See you earlier: Physicists sent a (simulated) particle back in time

  An international team of physicists looking for loopholes in the laws of physics recently simulated a brute-force method ...

  • Tristan Greene

• WiFi network made of rubber ducks could save lives during natural disasters

  The IBM-backed developers behind Project Owl, winner of 2018's Call For Code challenge, have successfully tested their rubber ...

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM is putting sustainable shrimp on the blockchain

  Shrimp is the latest foodstuff to make its way to the blockchain, courtesy of IBM's blockchain-based Food Trust ecosystem. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• IBM’s Hyperledger isn’t a real blockchain — here’s why

  Back in 2016, enterprise “private blockchain” was a new, unfamiliar idea. There were not many major players in the private ...

  • Stuart Popejoy

• Amazon says AT&T, Accenture, and Nestle are all using its blockchain tools

  Amazon is ramping up its blockchain services – and it's already convinced giants like AT&T, Accenture and Nestle to use ...

  • Mix

• IBM's Call For Code hackathon takes aim at California's wildfire problem

  IBM and 42 Silicon Valley are hosting a hackathon in early May to come up with solutions to California's wildfire problem. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Moonday Mornings: Jaguar Land Rover plans to reward drivers with IOTA cryptocurrency, and more

  Here's the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Jaguar Land Rover is getting on the blockchain, and cases ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Full moon patents: IBM’s ‘eye contact’ file transfer and Ford’s self-cleaning car

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville

  One of top 200 universities in the US, along with a helping hand from IBM, is getting its students into blockchain with dedicated ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Carrefour wants to track 20% of its products on the blockchain by 2020

  French supermarket giant Carrefour wants to track 20 percent of all of its in-house products on the blockchain by the end ...

  • Mix

• Why corporate acquisitions could be good for the open source community

  Open source is all over the media, IBM announced its acquisition of Red Hat, one of the largest in tech history, for $34 ...

  • Pedro Anderson

• Here's how many classic novels fit into the total words of patents

  Recently, one of colleagues shared the number of patents filed each year. It's a lot. Like, an overwhelmingly large number. After ...

  • Callum Booth

• 'Broad Band' is the best book we’ve read on women in computing

  To those unfamiliar with computing history, the world's first general-purpose computer was the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Facebook is hiring 22 people for its secretive blockchain division

  Facebook is currently seeking to hire a number of blockchain and cryptocurrency experts in the fields marketing, UX design, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Visa is looking for someone to spearhead permissionless blockchain

  Global payment services provider and Fortune 500 company, Visa, is showing signs that cryptocurrency and blockchain will ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Moonday Morning: Bitcoin dev ordered to prove Craig Wright isn’t Satoshi

  It's Monday which means it's Moonday Morning and time to catch up with the top cryptocurrency and blockchain news from over ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• IBM's latest trick: Turning noisy quantum bits into machine learning magic

  IBM researchers built a pair of algorithms that lay the foundation for the future of machine learning with quantum advantage. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The top 3 blockchain employers are old-school corporates, our data shows

  Despite the crypto-winter causing widespread layoffs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, there are still plenty ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Shell is recruiting science graduates to build blockchain use cases for oil and gas

  The world's fifth largest oil and gas producer in the world, Royal Dutch Shell, is looking to train the next generation of ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• NBC's tool will tell you if IBM's used your photos to train its AI

  IBM failed to notify Flickr users that it was using their pictures to train an AI - and you could be one of them. Here's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Carrefour will use blockchain to let curious mammals know where their milk came from

  French supermarket giant Carrefour is pouring milk all over its blockchain, allowing its customers to see the whole thing ...

  • David Canellis

• AI will soon decide what we eat

  Machines will take away our free will and force us to eat soylent green. Just kidding. They'll actually help us feed more ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Intel takes on IBM and Microsoft with its own ‘off-the-shelf’ blockchain packages

  Intel is expanding its blockchain offering even further to make it easier for businesses to get into the blockchain game. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• IBM's new quantum computer might not change everything, but it could make history

  IBM recently debuted a monumental achievement in quantum computer engineering: the IBM Q System One. We spoke with CTO Bob ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Ford drives cobalt supply chain transparency with IBM blockchain

  Ford has become the latest company to jump on the blockchain pilot bandwagon.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• IBM teaches AI to debate humans by crowdsourcing arguments

  IBM's AI wants to take on all-comers in debates on every topic. But, first, its going to crowdsource its arguments from humans ...

  • Tristan Greene

• New blockchain center opens in New York amid cryptocurrency market woes

  The city of New York has a new Blockchain Center.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• IBM thinks outside of the lab, puts quantum computer in a box

  IBM introduces its first fully functioning quantum computer system outside of a laboratory. The age of commercial quantum ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI is incredibly smart, but it will never match human creativity

  One could be forgiven for thinking that machines are creative. Numerous artificial intelligence projects appear to demonstrate ...

  • Alex Wulff

• 2018 was a crappy year for tech and science

  2018 is dead! Here's just a few of the ways it was a crappy year for technology, science. From Elon Musk to cheating researchers, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM just proved quantum computers can do things impossible for classical ones

  The debate over whether quantum computers will ever be able to do anything better than classical ones is over. A team of ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Moonday Morning: Israel is cracking down on cryptocurrency tax evaders

  It's been another weekend of hodling and watching the markets, here's a wrap-up of the weekend's top cyptocurrency and blockchain ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Here's why 100 qubit quantum computers could change everything

  The 100 qubit quantum processor represents the next major milestone for quantum computers, and the point at which they're ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Don't believe the hype: There's nothing wrong with the space station robot

  Reports of belligerent AI with a mind of its own terrorizing astronauts aboard the International Space Station aren't exactly ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Full moon patents: US Navy tube drones and Facebook doppelgängers

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Amazon likely to win $10B Pentagon contract – Google, IBM, and Oracle aren't happy

  The Pentagon's lucrative Project JEDI remains mired in controversy amid accusations it was always meant for Amazon -- and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Developing bionics: How IBM is adapting mind-control for accessibility

  IBM Research is developing artificial intelligence tools to create a brain-computer interface for people suffering from conditions ...

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM and Columbia University are tag-teaming the blockchain

  The Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency will leverage Columbia’s academic and scientific networks ...

  • David Canellis

• Experts throw shade on Australia's $750M investment in IBM blockchain tech

  The Australian government has awarded IBM with a lucrative $750 million contract to develop blockchain and other related ...

  • David Canellis