March 29, 2024
PAUL WALLICH usually walks his small son to the bus stop a stone’s throw from their Vermont home. But he can use a robot too: a football-sized drone, hovering several metres off the ground, follows a beacon stashed in the little boy’s school bag. A smartphone strapped to the device beams back video.
Από όλη την έρευνα που έχω κάνει όλα αυτά τα χρόνια, η ιδέα που με ανησυχεί περισσότερο είναι ότι όσο πηγαίνουμε προς μια κοινωνία χωρίς μετρητά, τόσο περισσότερο η ηθική μας πυξίδα αδρανεί.
Long checkout lines at the grocery store are one of the biggest complaints about the shopping experience. Soon, these lines could disappear when the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code is replaced by smart labels, also called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID tags are intelligent bar codes that can talk to a networked system to track every product that you put in your...
If you go look in your refrigerator or pantry right now, you will find that just about every package you see has a UPC bar code printed on it. In fact, nearly every item that you purchase from a grocery store, department store and mass merchandiser has a UPC bar code on it somewhere.
The Adam Smith Institute have recently published my report “Killing the Cash Cow: Why Andy Haldane is Wrong on Demonetisation” on Andy Haldane’s proposal (“How low can you go?”) to abolish cash. [Disclosure: Andy and I are old friends and I criticize him reluctantly.] I think Andy has made some marvellous contributions to the economic policy debate since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis,...
In most countries, the existence of a credit system isn't controversial. Past financial information is used to predict whether individuals will pay their mortgages or credit card bill in the future.
Today, Russia unveiled a universal ID card that does everything you could ever want it to do. You can use it to rent a car. It’s your credit card. It will pay your bills. It will get you an appointment at the doctor’s office. It can also put your identity at risk.
Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes. "Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right we give away, we give away for good."
Mikko Hyppönen is the CRO of f-secure, the well-known computer security company from Finland. He did a few very good TED talks and now he’s outdone himself in his new TEDx talk which he held in Brussels