"The progress of mankind is marked by the rise of new technologies and the human ingenuity they unlock."That's the glowing foreword to a new report on blockchain and distributed ledger tech issued by the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser this week.Taking a positive outlook on the emerging technology, the document recommends a broad government initiative to develop and demonstrate blockchain and distributed ledger technology, one that has caught the attention of the global media while emboldening the growing chorus of "blockchain" enthusiasts.Perhaps the most important takeaway from proposal is that the UK government was encouraged to pursue applications of the technology.Author Mark Walport wrote:"Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services."However, Walport goes on to make a series of additional recommendations that foretell how the UK government could move forward on his suggestions.
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De Uber à AirBnB, de Google à Facebook, de Blablacar à Apple, le numérique explose ! En quoi est-il une rupture vis-à-vis de l’économie classique ?
Le Numérique est partout ! L’Internet nous connecte, interconnecte les objets, les choses. L’information se transmet, se diffuse, se propage avec un coût marginal nul. L’information est un bien immatériel : plus de vol, que des copies.
Les tâches répétitives s’automatisent, le travail se délocalise, le partage s’amplifie, L’Open Source devient une alternative, la transparence s’impose. Le numérique crée des opportunités exceptionnelles de business et bouleverse les relations professionnelles. Les plateformes d’intermédiation s’immiscent dans les relations B2B comme B2C, la relation client devient la valeur, l’intermédiation numérique devient la règle, l’effet réseau la clef, détruisant la valeur de business bien établis, redistribuant les cartes sur nombre de secteurs d’activité.
Quelles en sont les limites ? Identité et sécurité sont à réinventer. Quel impact sur l’économie de nos sociétés ? Comment agir, réagir, saisir les opportunités ?
Avec l’intervention de : Vivek Badrinath – Directeur Général Adjoint Accor Vincent Taupin – Président du Directoire Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild Banque, Fondateur de Boursorama Philippe Dewost – Directeur Adjoint, Mission Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir, en charge de l’économie numérique et du financement des Entreprises à la Caisse des Dépots Florent Steiner – Co-fondateur Adopteunmec.com
It’s been almost three years since former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski set a goal of having at least one gigabit network in every state by 2015. The year is now over and by Telecompetitor’s tally, we didn’t quite make it – but we’re close.
We combed through our archives and other online resources and, by our tally, at least one network operator has announced plans to offer gigabit service in every state. Not all of these networks are actually deployed or supporting service yet. But generally network operators don’t announce specific markets more than a year or two in advance of when they expect to deliver service. If, for example, a network operator simply said it would eventually upgrade its entire footprint beginning in 2016, as Cox Communications did, we didn’t count the company’s entire footprint, only the states it provided more details on.
We also didn’t count a deployment unless plans included residential users. Clearly Genachowski wasn’t talking about gigabit Ethernet service to commercial buildings when he set the gigabit goal.
Gigabit StatesEven heavily rural states – states such as Wyoming, West Virginia, or Maine – made the list, thanks to a wide range of small locally-focused telcos, utilities, municipal network operators, and others. Even though deployment costs tend to be higher in rural areas, entities with a local focus often manage to find a way to make gigabit happen – and in the telco arena, many companies already had fiber-to-the-home networks, making it relatively easy to upgrade to a gigabit.
Another thing that helped put all 50 states on the gigabit map was that tier one or tier two telco and cable operators that had not previously announced gigabit plans decided to get in on the trend.
Surprisingly enough, Bluetooth has become one of the best methods for connecting smart devices. Internet of Things standards like Zigbee and Z-Wave still have plenty of issues, and WiFi, while popular, draws too much power to be effective for managing several smart devices. Meanwhile, most devices support Bluetooth by this point, and it can also maintain connections without using too much battery life. But Bluetooth is still has issues: Its range is relatively short (around 30 feet) and many devices can only be paired with one other device.Enter the Cassia Hub, a $100 Bluetooth router — yes, router — that aims to solve those issues. The company claims it can extend the range of Bluetooth connections up to 1,000 feet (in open air), or pass through up to three walls without many issues. Similar to a WiFi router, it can also connect to 22 separate Bluetooth devices at once.
Such Interesting approach could leverage Bluetooth ease of use and low consumption while mitigating some of it witnesses (think range in some cases) and solve the upcoming orchestration issue that any household will face when dealing with dozens of connected objects...
...Drive PX2... supposedly equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros, all sitting in a computer that's about the size of a lunchbox. It has 12 CPU cores that support a combined eight teraflops and 24 deep learning tera operations per second. It's also water-cooled...According to Nvidia, the PX2 can "process the inputs of 12 video cameras, plus lidar, radar and ultrasonic sensors."...Nvidia has created a reference platform called the "Nvidia Drivenet" and it is already testing its own self-driving cars. It has nine inception layers so that it can train itself to "perceive things out in the world." Huang says that it took just a few months for the network to recognize objects in real time. It's not new, but Nvidia says that it's made huge strides in recent months. In one impressive demo, Nvidia showed how it was able to detect cars even in very snowy conditions.Nvidia is also working with Audi to test its systems, to the point where its system was able to read German road signs "better than a human can." Daimler, BMW, and Ford are using the system to develop their self-driving cars, as well.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a new collaborative effort to advance the popular blockchain technology. The project will develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and free developers to focus on building robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions.
Early commitments to this work come from Accenture, ANZ Bank, Cisco, CLS, Credits, Deutsche Börse, Digital Asset Holdings, DTCC, Fujitsu Limited, IC3, IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan, London Stock Exchange Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), R3, State Street, SWIFT, VMware and Wells Fargo.
Many of the founding members are already investing considerable research and development efforts exploring blockchain applications for industry. IBM intends to contribute tens of thousands of lines of its existing codebase and its corresponding intellectual property to this open source community. Digital Asset is contributing the Hyperledger mark, which will be used as the project name, as well as enterprise grade code and developer resources. R3 is contributing a new financial transaction architectural framework designed to specifically meet the requirements of its global bank members and other financial institutions. These technical contributions, among others from a variety of companies, will be reviewed in detail in the weeks ahead by the formation and Technical Steering Committees.
Blockchain is a digital technology for recording and verifying transactions. The distributed ledger is a permanent, secure tool that makes it easier to create cost-efficient business networks without requiring a centralized point of control. With distributed ledgers, virtually anything of value can be tracked and traded. The application of this emerging technology is showing great promise in the enterprise. For example, it allows securities to be settled in minutes instead of days. It can be used to help companies manage the flow of goods and related payments or enable manufacturers to share production logs with OEMs and regulators to reduce product recalls.
L’institution publique a rassemblé 11 partenaires pour créer un groupe de travail de place sur la technologie derrière le Bitcoin.
Vous avez dit « blockchain » ? Cette technologie ouverte et libre, qui permet aujourd’hui la circulation de monnaies cryptées comme le Bitcoin, est loin d’avoir livrée tous ses secrets. Mais elle suscite un engouement inédit dans le secteur financier qui y voit le moyen de repenser complètement la manière dont il gère et authentifie les transactions. Surtout visible outre-Atlantique, cet intérêt se matérialise désormais aussi en France. Ce mercredi, ce sont des banques (BNP Paribas, le groupe BPCE, le Crédit Agricole), des assureurs (CNP Assurances et AXA), le Pôle de compétitivité « finance innovation », l’association Croissance Plus, le conservatoire national des arts et métiers et plusieurs start-up spécialisées dans cette technologie (Blockchain Solutions, Cellabz, Paymium) qui se sont rassemblés sous l’égide de la Caisse des Dépôts pour lancer un groupe de travail de place sur le sujet.
Les nouvelles entreprises de la eSanté ne cessent d’attirer les investisseurs. Ces nouveaux entrants modifient l'échiquier et amènent des innovations qui pourraient faire évoluer les règles sacrées du secteur.
L'objectif du FrenchWeb Day Santé est d'analyser et de décoder les facteurs clefs de réussite aujourd'hui.
Les startup de la eSanté, ce sont d'abord des levées de fonds, en Europe mais surtout aux États-Unis et en Asie. Visiomed, Voluntis, en France, Clover Health aux Etats-Unis, pour ne citer qu'elles.
Dans cette course aux pépites, quelle place prendront les GAFA et les géants asiatiques tels Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi? En Chine récemment, c'est près d'un demi-milliard de dollars qui ont été levés pour développer l'hôpital du futur. Sans oublier ceux qui visent à transformer les usages du quotidien avec les objets connectés. Ce sont les Withings, Netatmo, Fitbit mais aussi Apple.
Creatives, business, marketing, management, ou entrepreneurs, nous vous proposons 14 sessions pendant lesquelles nous aborderons sans concession les questions de l'innovation dans la eSanté.
C’est nouveau débouché commercial majeur pour Devialet. Les Apple Stores vont commercialiser aux Etats-Unis, puis dans le monde entier, des enceintes fabriquées en France par la start-up parisienne , spécialiste de l’ingénierie acoustique, a annoncé l’entreprise.Le groupe de Cupertino a obtenu l’exclusivité de la distribution du nouveau modèle d’enceintes Phantom aux Etats-Unis, où ils seront disponibles dès mardi dans les quinze premiers Apple Stores du pays et en ligne. Le déploiement suivra dans l’ensemble des magasins américains d’Apple au début 2016, « avant une diffusion mondiale », a précisé Devialet.« On ne connaît pas les volumes que ça peut représenter précisément », a indiqué à l’AFP Quentin Sannié, le directeur général de l’entreprise . « Je pense que ça peut rapidement représenter au moins un tiers de nos ventes, voire plus », a-t-il ajouté.
Wandercraft, la start-up française qui développe un exosquelette à usage médical, vient de lever un total de 4 millions d'euros auprès du groupe ECA, qui y a investi en juillet, et du fonds d’investissement Innovation Capital, avec la participation de contributeurs d'Anaxago, une plateforme de financement participative en capital. La société avait lancé sa campagne en février sur ce site et cherchait alors à lever 1,5 million d'euros, comme Frenchweb le relayait à l'époque.
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Fondée à Orsay par des polytechniciens, Wandercraft développe un exosquelette à usage médical destiné aux personnes à mobilité réduire. L'entreprise précise que les personnes paraplégiques et myopathes seront ses premiers utilisateurs. «L’exosquelette de Wandercraft proposera une gestion autonome de la marche anthropomorphe, une grande capacité d’adaptation à l’environnement extérieur, et des déplacements rapides», détaille-t-elle.
Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, has announced that ongoing testing of its prototype real-time space-division multiplexed optical multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO-SDM) system could see the company attain speeds of 1 petabit per second in time for the arrival of 5G and the Internet of Things.
In what the company called a "major breakthrough", a trial of the 6x6 real-time MIMO transmission technology in New Jersey saw Bell Labs successfully remove for the first time crosstalk from multiple signals on the fibre supporting the six parallel optical signal paths using real-time processing.
"This experiment represents a major breakthrough in the development of future optical transport," Marcus Weldon, CTO of Alcatel-Lucent and president of Bell Labs, said.
"We are at the crossroads of a huge change in communications networks, with the advent of 5G wireless and cloud networking under way. Operators and enterprises alike will see their networks challenged by massive increases in traffic. At Bell Labs, we are continuously innovating to shape the future of communications networks to meet those demands."
The successful experiment used six transmitters and six receivers alongside real-time digital signal processing over coupled fibre stretching 60km in Bell Labs' global headquarters.
Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and EBlink, pioneer of wireless fronthaul technology, announced a partnership to deliver both fiber and wireless based solutions and to provide an end-to-end fronthaul architecture. In a live field trial with Orange, the Infinera TM-Series and EBlink's FrontLink™ solutions delivered mobile fronthaul networking services for Orange's 4G network in western France, interconnecting baseband units (BBU) and remote radio heads (RRH) from several of Orange's Radio Access Network (RAN) vendors.
In the live field trial, the combined Infinera TM-Series and EBlink FrontLink solution demonstrated on Orange's network how it can deliver a unique end-to-end performance combining fiber and wireless for mobile fronthaul for today's mobile infrastructure and for future advanced 4G and 5G mobile networks. Where fiber exists, the Infinera TM-Series delivers bandwidth using high capacity wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology. Where there is no fiber, EBlink's wireless fronthaul is complementary to the WDM fronthaul solution, enabling mobile operators to bridge the "very last mile" which can, in certain locations, be difficult to reach with fiber connections. In the live field trial, the combined solutions worked together seamlessly without disruption in the network.
Mobile fronthaul is a market opportunity that is emerging as mobile operators move to centralized and cloud-based radio access networks (C-RAN) and plan for deployment of high bandwidth 4G, 5G and small cell architectures.
"Mobile fronthaul is a challenging environment with tough requirements on latency and synchronisation for optical solutions," said Sten Nordell, CTO of Infinera's Metro Business Group. "As one of the few suppliers capable of achieving these requirements, we are very pleased to partner with EBlink and Orange to demonstrate that the combination of fiber and wireless is the right alchemy for mobile fronthaul."
"This partnership with Infinera reaffirms the relevance of our wireless fronthaul technologies and how complementary fiber and wireless can be," said Eric Sèle, deputy CEO of EBlink. "The deployment of the Infinera and EBlink solutions on Orange's network underscores the concept that wireless fronthaul picks up where fiber leaves off."
"Combining fiber and wireless is key to a successful mobile fronthaul implementation," said Philippe Chanclou at Orange Labs. "Infinera and EBlink have shown the feasibility of integration of mobile fronthaul with Orange RAN vendors and have demonstrated end-to-end performance, and we are pleased with the trial results," added Sebastien Randazzo, project leader of fronthaul trials at Orange France.
Uber has found an unlikely partner for its on-demand services in Airbus, the company announced on Sunday, with the aerospace giant providing helicopters for a pilot project.
As part of a new Silicon Valley-based initiative, Airbus has established a partnership with Uber was part of an experiment that would allow Uber users to hail copters, as well as other forms of transportation.
The recently-formed Airbus Ventures will operate with $150 million commitment to "identify and invest in the most visionary entrepreneurs in the global aerospace ecosystem," Airbus said in a release.
RuggedPOD as being an outdoor micro datacenter can host various electronic equipment in extreme conditions including server motherboards, amplifiers or RF filters. One of the use case identified by the team is associated to Telecom market, where expansion of wireless network with 4G/LTE might be a significant step forward to lower the gap between low income countries and western country to get access to the internet.Telco is a traditionnal low innovation speed adoption market, with pure proprietary hardware which cost a huge amount of money. Associated to a POD we believe that an Open Tower, easy to install and deploy might accelerate Internet adoption and spread. We are working now on such development, and hope to get some early proto within the next couple of weeks. Stay tune, join the team if you wish to participate to such challenge.The fully assembled tower must be able to sustain the following conditions:- Temperature range: -40 C / + 50 C- Humidity level: 0 – 100% level with condensing- Altitude: 0 – 4000 m- Lighting/Thunder/hail protection- Max winds: 120 km/h- Sun exposure: Full- Winter conditions: Snow/icy rain. Ice and Snow weight shouldn’t jeopardize structural condition.- Wildlife protectionWe aim to release the full schematic, drawing and tooling needed to produce the tower under OCP license as to get as many suppliers willing to produce such piece of hardware.
Bitcoin isn’t the only way of sending digital money across the Internet. There’s also Ripple. And Stellar. And Litecoin. And Ethereum. And so many others. Bitcoin is by far the most popular. But every so often, some developers or an entrepreneur or a company will decide we need something better. A coder named Jed McCaleb built Ripple as a better bitcoin. Then he built Stellar as a better Ripple. And he’s not the only one.Now, there’s a movement to create a technology that would let all these online ledgers talk to one another, that would let you send money between these systems. Dubbed the “interledger protocol,” the project began at the company that oversees Ripple. But in recent months, after the company publicly shared the idea, it has also won the support of several other notable names, including Microsoft and the World Wide Web consortium, the organization that sets the technical standards for the web. The idea is to create a single worldwide network that can not only unite all digital currencies, but all companies and individuals who use those currencies.“This will be something that sits on top of all the ledgers and abstracts the differences,” says Ripple chief technology officer Stefan Thomas. “We’re trying to create a global standard for payments.”
PINE A64 is not only a computer, it is a super affordable 64-bit high performance expandable single board computer (SBC). Whether you are an IT professional, electronics hobbyist, student, teacher, hacker, inventor, or just someone who wants to have more flexibility to increase their productivity at work, the PINE A64 is a computer board made for everyone. Enjoy more fun and entertainment at home with endless possibilities.PINE A64 board is powered by the latest 64-bit quad core ARM A53 CPU running at 1.2 Ghz, and delivers up to 20-30% better performance than other 32 bit open source counterparts.The GPU on the PINE A64 is a dual-core MALI-400 MP2 and runs at 500MHz, capable of 1.1 Gpixel/s throughput. This means the graphics capabilities are slightly higher than the original X-Box's level of performance.
Rent seeking models have been attempted on every single open technology. Email, the Web, Bittorrent, the whole of the Internet, and now ‘the blockchain’.If you’re not familiar with rent-seeking behaviour, the classical example by Robert Shiller is that of “a feudal lord installing a chain across a river flowing through his land, and then hiring a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector. The lord has made no improvements to the river and is helping nobody in any way, directly or indirectly, except himself. All he is doing is finding a way to make money from something that used to be free”.Thanks to the technological breakthrough of Ethereum and its turing complete blockchain going live, I often read that things are “like the Internet in the early 90s”. To a certain extent, this is true. But unfortunately it’s also attracted a crowd that is seemingly in an awful rush to “embrace, extends and extinguish” the technology before it disrupts them, permanently. My apologies to the wannabe Zuckerberg, but blockchains aren’t here to build Facebook 2.0, blockchain edition.
All the attention for blockchain technology recently has already spurred something of a new technology gold rush. And this has brought in a large number of gold-diggers. However, looking at the technology hype cycle, the outlook for blockchain technology on the short term is not very pretty. There will be a lot of pivots and (possibly epic) failures before we’ll see significant and sustainable successes.This is in large part due to a misunderstanding of what blockchain technology is and greatly hyped expectations on where, how and when it will add value. Though eventually its impact on society will likely be profound, blockchain technology is not the short term silver bullet that magically solves everything.Related to this is a lack of insight in the state of the technology and more intangible — but very real — aspects (like regulatory issues, incumbent’s fear of losing control, etc) that stand in the way of optimally leveraging all the technology’s benefits. Jumping on this have been more than a fair share of consultants that are very willing to offer their advice. However, just talking about blockchain or writing reports on it really does not get us any closer to where we need to go: the plateau of productivity. To get there, we actually need to start building blockchain enabled solutions, fixing real world problems one step at a time. Because only by doing that, we will be able to fail. And learn. And iterate. Until we get it right.So here’s my wish for 2016: let’s stop talking Blockchain and start building solutions. Because however interesting the subject matter may be from a philosophical, organizational technological or societal point of view, having yet another discussion on any of those topics will not bring us any closer to usable solutions. And ultimately, that is where the true value is.
Agree with the author as "Just talking about blockchain or writing reports on it really does not get us any closer to where we need to go. We need to start building blockchain enabled solutions to fix real world problems."
Gonzague Grandval, vous êtes co-fondateur de la plate-forme Paymium et membre de l’initiative de place sur la blockchain : les conditions sont-elles réunies pour que la France devienne une figure de proue de la technologie bitcoin ?
Il faut du temps pour que les innovations percolent au sein des grands groupes. Nous arrivons en France à un point où l’écosystème se met en place, avec des laboratoires dédiés à la technologie « blockchain » dans les banques, des start-up qui émergent et de nombreuses initiatives privées. La France est certes en retard par rapport aux Etats-Unis, mais l’initiative de place pilotée par la Caisse des Dépôts va dans le bon sens. Cette démarche, qui consiste à réunir de grands acteurs institutionnels pour réfléchir à ce que la technologie libre et ouverte « blockchain » peut apporter au secteur financier dans son entier, est d’autant plus constructive qu’elle prévoit d’organiser par la même occasion une montée en compétence technique et fonctionnelle collective de ses participants. Elle positionne ainsi notre pays en aiguillon sur le Vieux Continent et notre souhait est qu’elle puisse prendre à moyen terme une dimension européenne, voire qu’elle s’élargisse à d’autres activités que la finance.
La troisième édition des Napoleons se tiendra sous le parrainage exceptionnel de Stéphane Richard.
Le Pdg d'Orange ouvrira cette nouvelle édition consacrée au Temps. Il fera partager sa vision sur cette notion fondamentale, aujourd'hui transformée par l'impact des nouvelles technologies.
J'ai la chance et l'honneur d'être (ré)invité cette année et y animerai deux sessions : "Fast & Furious" le 14 Janvier (avec Yann Lechelle de Snips déjà confirmé) et "Show me the Money" le 15 sur Blockchain.
Struggling to hold and increase its user base, Dropbox is shutting down its email and photo apps, Mailbox and Carousel.The company is looking to streamline its core business and is looking to focus and build on its collaboration service, Paper.“Building new products is about learning as much as it’s about making,” Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi said in the blog post announcement. “It’s also about tough choices. Over the past few months, we’ve increased our team’s focus on collaboration and simplifying the way people work together. In light of that, we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Carousel and Mailbox.”Dropbox acquired Mailbox in 2013, which at the time of its launch had a lot of hype as it created a simple interface for reading email. Carousel also comes from startup acquisitions, and is an Android and iOS app that organized photos and videos from a user’s Dropbox with the swipe of a finger.Mailbox will shut down on February 26, 2016, and Carousel will end on March 31, 2016.
Traditional law is a form of agreement. It is an agreement among people and their leaders as to how people should behave. There are also legal contracts between individuals. These contracts are a form of private law that applies to the participants. Both types of agreement are enforced by a government's legal system.For example, if you loan someone money and they don't pay you back, you might take them to court. In practice, this is messy and unpredictable. Court cases require expensive lawyers to argue about the law, are often measured in years and even if you "win", you have the problem of collecting.Hopefully you wrote down the terms of that loan as a contract. However, the authors of laws and the writers of contracts face a special kind of challenge. Ideally, there should never be any confusion about the meaning of the agreement. But laws are written with words, and words are famously imprecise."There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words" — Thomas ReidSo these are big problems with traditional law. Agreements are ambiguous. And enforcement is hard.Ethereum solves both these problems. It does this with the marriage of two special ingredients: a digital currency, and a complete programming language. Let's look at both.
Ethereum is one of the most ambitious projects I have been exposed to in the context of this massive and defining disruption called "decentralized consensus" that will require every available intelligence across the whole chessboard as it revisits the very fabric of trust, ownership, governance and therefore could redefine how our societies work and operate and transact.
Après avoir longtemps dédaigné et critiqué la monnaie numérique, les banques d’affaires et les places boursières occidentales commencent à s’y intéresser sérieusement.--Satoshi Nakamoto, l’inventeur du bitcoin, la monnaie numérique circulant sur Internet, vient d’être présélectionné pour le prix Nobel d’économie 2016. Cette candidature est soutenue par l’économiste américain Bhagwan Chowdhry, professeur à l’université de Californie à Los Angeles et membre du groupe de présélection des candidats à la récompense. Sur son blog, M. Chowdhry explique ce choix :« Le bitcoin, qui existe uniquement en tant qu’objet mathématique, a de nombreux avantages sur les monnaies physiques et papier. Il est sûr, car il repose sur un code cryptographique quasiment inviolable. Il court-circuite les gouvernements, les banques centrales, les intermédiaires financiers tels que Visa, MasterCard, Paypal et les banques commerciales – éliminant ainsi les délais et les coûts des transactions. »M. Chowdhry rappelle aussi que le « protocole du bitcoin » (le programme informatique qui permet à cette monnaie d’exister, appelé aussi blockchain, ou chaîne de blocs de données) peut servir à sécuriser, stocker et transférer toutes sortes de transactions : « les implications sont immenses. Cela va sans doute créer une infrastructure publique, ouverte et décentralisée […] Les grands bénéficiaires seront les consommateurs » – y compris les populations pauvres et marginalisées, qui pourront enfin être incluses dans les circuits financiers.Seul problème : Satoshi Nakamoto est un pseudonyme, et personne ne connaît la véritable identité du père du bitcoin. Dans ces conditions, M. Chowdhry admet que les organisateurs du Nobel hésitent à valider cette candidature, mais il propose une solution : si le prix est décerné à Satoshi Nakamoto, le professeur le recevra en son nom, une pratique courante quand un lauréat ne peut pas se déplacer. La récompense financière, 8 millions de couronnes suédoises (863 000 euros), pourra être changée en bitcoins et versée sur l’un des portefeuilles en ligne de Satoshi Nakamoto. Et qui sait ? On peut même imaginer que, flatté par l’honneur qui lui serait fait, il déciderait de venir chercher son prix Nobel, révélant enfin son visage.
Nobéliser un pseudonyme pour une contribution qui a à peine 7 ans, ça c'est disruptif, même si le Nobel d'économie est un prix Nobel un peu à part (le seul hors du testament d'Alfred)
private space firm owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, has just dropped a huge, unexpected gauntlet in the race to develop a reusable rocket. It just launched its New Shepard space vehicle (video, below) consisting of a BE-3 rocket and crew capsule to a suborbital height of around 100.5 kilometers (62 miles). The capsule then separated and touched down beneath a parachute, but more importantly, the BE-3 rocket also started its own descent. After the rockets fired at nearly 5,000 feet, it made a a controlled vertical landing at a gentle 4.4 mph.So far, SpaceX has managed to get its own reusable booster close to its barge platform, but hasn't nailed the landing yet. Elon Musk's company does have a more daunting task, however -- its Falcon 9 reusable first stage is propelling the rocket to an orbital, not suborbital altitude. While SpaceX's rocket separates at a similar height of around 50 miles, its speed at that point is much faster than that of New Shepard -- around Mach 10 compared to Mach 3.7. As a result, it continues to an apogee height of nearly 90 miles, so it has a lot further to fall. During its last attempt, the rocket unfortunately exploded early in the flight, setting the program back significantly.
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