LexisNexis, a global provider of legal information and analytics, has announced the commercial preview of Lexis+AI in Australia, propelling it to the top spot as the most extensive legal generative AI solution in the world. This forward-thinking tool is set to revolutionise the legal industry by condensing the work of sifting through 1.23 million documents … Read more
In a shot across the bow to the digital payments industry, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) has issued a proposed rule to expand its oversight authority to nonbank providers of consumer payment apps. These apps include digital wallets, funds transfer services, and P2P apps—for both U.S. dollar payments and, surprisingly, also bitcoin … Read more
Jacksonville, FL , Aug. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Everything Blockchain Inc., (OTCMKTS: EBZT), a technology company that is blending blockchain, DBMS, and Zero Trust to deliver disruptive new ways to store, manage and protect data, today announced that Michael Hawkins, the company’s Chairman of the Board, Robert Adams, and Richard Schaeffer (Independent Directors) have … Read more
The Iraqi government on Sunday ended a week-long suspension of the Telegram messaging app over “national security” concerns after the move drew criticism from pro-Iran factions. On Sunday morning the app was again accessible without the need for a virtual private network (VPN), AFP journalists in Baghdad said. Iraq’s ministry of communications had on Saturday … Read more
Weeks after its international launch, Worldcoin is drawing the attention of privacy regulators around the world, with the Kenya’s government going so far as to shut down the service indefinitely. The international ID startup, backed by big names in Silicon Valley, is now having to defend itself in investigations over whether the biometric data that … Read more
The development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues at a rapid pace. Firefighters in California recently used AI to spot wildfires and douse them, while LongShot AI announced the development of a system designed to ensure fact-checked text that is free of AI hallucination. Check out all this, and more in our AI … Read more
When Kazumasa Sato was assigned to Sony Corp.’s information technology section as a fresh economics graduate in 1980, he was baffled. Maintaining an information system using IBM mainframe computers was not precisely what he envisioned doing at one of the country’s most famous tech companies known for innovative products such as the iconic Walkman cassette … Read more
Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters. Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Worldcoin launched last week, requiring users to give their iris scans in exchange for … Read more