There are many new platforms trying to make blockchains more scalable, or creating alternatives to the architecture of blockchain to fulfill on the aspirations of blockchain advocates, but that current blockchains fail to deliver on.
Hashgraph has been getting some press and many are excited about the speeds they promise and some of the videos and demonstrations they’ve shared. It is one of the closest innovations to Holochain that I’ve seen come out by people starting from a blockchain mindset. However, from my completely biased perspective, there are still a few gaps.

Birgit Strodel studierte Chemie in Düsseldorf und Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was durch ein Stipendium des DAAD ermöglicht wurde. Nach dem Diplom an der HHU (2000) wurde sie 2005 über eine Arbeit zur Quantendynamik in der kondensierten Phase am Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main promoviert. Daran schloss sich eine Zeit als Post-Doc am Chemie-Department der Universität Cambridge in Großbritannien an. Seitdem forscht sie auf dem Gebiet der Proteinaggregation, die sie mittels Computersimulationen untersucht.

Leslie K. John at Harvard Business Review: “…People are bad at making decisions about their private data. They misunderstand both costs and benefits. Moreover, natural human biases interfere with their judgment. And whether by design or accident, major platform companies and data aggregators have structured their products and services to exploit those biases, often in subtle ways.

Micah Lee at The Intercept: “The United Nations accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service Trello, issue tracking app Jira, and office suite Google Docs.

Excelencia en el campo de trabajo, contribución a la comunidad, liderazgo y creatividad.

Impulsado por iniciativa estudiantil y financiado por el Premio Azul, recientemente comenzó a funcionar este espacio que es más que una sala de lactancia: es un lugar destinado a acoger y prestar servicios básicos a estudiantes, funcionarias y académicas, quienes podrán alimentar, mudar, cuidar y jugar con sus hijas e hijos.

Luego de que fuese sobreseído, este nuevo requerimiento a la investigación encabezada por el ministro en visita Mario Carroza apunta a establecer la participación de organismos de inteligencia en eventuales apremios ilegítimos, sucedidos aquella recordada jornada del 8 de febrero de 1985, cuando 173 estudiantes de la U.

La nueva oficina se enmarca en la Política Institucional de Prevención del Acoso Sexual, como parte del compromiso de la U.

Maquillaje, luces, trabajo en equipo y mucho más son parte de "Cuéntame la danza II. La obra", espectáculo que se presenta este fin de semana y que lleva a sumergirse en el día a día de una compañía profesional y a conocer sus secretos tras bambalinas.

24.09.2018 - 19:00 - 22:00 Säälchen - Holzmarkt Holzmarktstraße 25 Berlin

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The annual meetings of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) have been consolidated as the main space for discussion and exchange of ideas among the stakeholders of the Internet community on an equal footing. However, there are diverse activities which take place throughout the year that require the participation of all the actors of the community.
The Intersessional Activities

“Cleansing” cyberspace: Zhuang Rongwen, recently appointed as director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has vowed to promote “positive energy” on the Internet while suppressing “negative elements,” including “wrong ideological trends” that attack the Communist Party there, reports the South China Morning Post. Zhuang called on all Internet users to join party members to fight a people’s war to rehabilitate the “cyber ecology.”

The latest edition of  the International Open Data Conference (IODC) is just around the bend. We’ll be discussing open data during the entire week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through a series of pre-events, including symposiums, discussion panels and workshops as well as the main conference, we will discuss with open data practitioners, advocates, and researchers about the future of open data.

A “digital divide” separates the countries of the Global North and South: they are unequal in terms of access to and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) such as computers, mobile phones, and the internet. It is widely believed that bridging this divide will positively affect people in under-connected world regions: ICT are assumed to increase economic productivity and prosperity and to have a democratizing effect.The TATuP thematic issue 2/2019 offers a platform to advance a critical assessment from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Im Rahmen der von Studierenden veranstalteten Erstsemester-Arbeitsgemeinschaft für den Start in den Uni-Alltag wird es zunächst diverse Veranstaltungen in den Übertragungshörsälen der 25er- und 26er-Gebäude geben. Die Fachschaften werden sich vorstellen - anschließend wird es für die Studierenden des Erstsemesters den traditionellen ESAG Event geben auf dem Parkplatz P2 (bis in den Abend).
Im Verlauf der Woche werden die "Erstsemester" dann weiter durch ihre Fachschaftsräte betreut und auf den Studienstart vorbereitet.

Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott at New America: “The crisis for democracy posed by digital disinformation demands a new social contract for the internet rooted in transparency, privacy and competition. This is the conclusion we have reached through careful study of the problem of digital disinformation and reflection on potential solutions. …Digital media platforms did not cause the fractured and irrational politics that plague modern societies.

Announcement by Bob Schultz at IBM: “The talent economy is one of the great outcomes of the digital era — and the ability to attract and develop the right talent has become a competitive advantage in most industries. According to a recent IBM study, which surveyed over 2,100 Chief Human Resource Officers, 33 percent of CHROs believe AI will revolutionize the way they do business over the next few years.

By Ben Martin; reposted from Ensia.com
By requiring planners to consider impacts on society and the environment as well as economics, New Zealand is setting a much-needed example for other nations.

In 2011, a professor at Girona University set his students an assignment – to come up with a cooperative business model. A small group of friends and students used the challenge to address the lack of action on generating green energy, and thus Som Energia was founded. Today it has 45,000 members and 70,000 clients across Spain.
In Spain, two private energy companies account for 80% of the country’s energy market, and green energy suppliers are scarce. In December 2010, 157 people decided to try to produce their own renewable energy, and set up Som Energia.