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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). This comes in the form of micropayments.

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Blockchain Technology. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Supports multitasking : voice search technology can simultaneously perform multiple tasks from navigation to setting up meetings and reminders. Blockchain Technology. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

Bootstrapping from ‘a simple optimizer like PostgreSQL’, Neo can learn a model giving performance equalling or bettering state-of-the-art commercial optimizers. The authors claim a two orders-of-magnitude performance improvement. BlockchainDB – it’s a blockchain underneath, and a database on top. Do we want that?