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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

Although blockchain technology is still in its early days, momentum has been building in the enterprise. While there has been much focus on blockchains in banking and payments, its impact has already extended far beyond finance. When a land title changes hands, it would be verified via the blockchain, and recorded again.

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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. Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Groups can be centralised or decentralised, with decentralised groups managed by smart contracts on the AnyLog blockchain.

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Blockchain Technology. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. Blockchain Technology. Single Page Applications (SPAs).

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 15th, 2018

High Scalability

work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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

The Morning Paper

We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna. ” Crusher is a Google system for automatically discovering email templates (e.g. BlockchainDB – it’s a blockchain underneath, and a database on top.

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Software Testing Trends 2021 – What can we expect?

Testsigma

By 2021, a distributed cloud would help companies physically put all services closely together, thereby addressing low-latency challenges, minimising the expense of storage and ensuring that data standards are consistent with the laws in a given geographical region. million Google Play Store applications, followed by 1.96