The head of the Dubai government's Smart Dubai initiative provided new details on how she believes blockchain can help drive the city's modernization efforts in a speech at industry conference Keynote 2016 yesterday.
Micropayments have long been one of the most hotly-anticipated use cases for bitcoin, but similar tech may be coming soon to Ethereum, the decentralized blockchain network that has recently rejuvenated outside interest in the cryptocurrency space.
Shops are being looted as Venezuela's citizens, who live on top of the world's largest oil reserves, are literally starving and dying for lack of food and medicine; all while the country's gold reserves are being sold to finance its debt. With 1.
or decades, the story of Saudi Arabia recycling petrodollars, i.e., funding the US deficit by buying US Treasuries with proceeds of its crude oil sales (mostly to the US), while the US sweetened the deal by providing the Saudis with military equipmen
In 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells.
Most experts consider him to be the greatest biochemist of the 20th
The number of 'whistleblowers' that have emerged over the years regarding the ongoing 'war against terror' is truly eye-opening. Unfortunately, many remain innocently ignorant given the fact that mainstream corporate media will not touch this
Economists overwhelmingly reject Brexit in boost for Cameron … Poll shows 88% of 600 experts fear long-term fall in GDP if UK leaves single market, and 82% are alarmed over impact on household income. -Guardian
Romania and Poland are in the potential crosshairs of Russian rockets because they are hosting parts of the U.S. missile defense shield that Moscow considers a threat to its national security, President Vladimir Putin warned Friday.
On a recent weekday, just a few miles from where the government was holding military exercises preparing for a foreign invasion, about a dozen senior citizens were gathered in a classroom learning about another war-time innovation. "Vertical garden
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is the "dictator" of "the biggest nation in the world", the co-founder of file sharing site The Pirate Bay, told CNBC on Friday, as he denounced the centralization of power on the internet.
3D printing is still a young technology, but when you can use it for important tasks like making gummy snack figures of yourself, or building a home, it's no longer in its infancy. And Dubai has reached that second (and arguably more important) miles
While gamers and technophiles are abuzz about virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Gear VR, these devices fall into two categories: either casual, low-quality experiences on smartphones, or high-end gaming that usually relies o
That She Violated Clear Rules. While the New York Times has reported that the "State Department's inspector general sharply criticized Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a private email server" and "undermined some of Mrs. Clinton's previ
Years ago, it was seen as a "conspiracy theory" that the elite wanted to microchip
the populace. Now well its right in our faces constantly, its no longer a secret i'll start by Repeating the words of the great Aaron Russo Rockefeller's best
A team of researchers at Monsanto believe they might be on the verge of finding a solution to the mysterious drop in honey-bee populations all over the planet, a threat that endangers the world's food supply as a whole.
WikiLeaks releases latest documents from TISA negotiations … The classified annex to the draft "core text" of the Trade in Services Agreement is part of what is being secretly negotiated by the U.S., EU and 22 countries. The website WikiLeaks
In response to the U.S. Senate's unanimous vote to allow 9/11 victims' families to sue Saudi Arabia in federal court, a report published in the London-based Al-Hayat daily, by Saudi legal expert Katib al-Shammari, claims that the U.S. masterminde
We had an all-day meeting on Friday about Digital Identity, at the United Nations. There are almost two billion people born with no identity. There is no record of their birth. There is no proof of their existence. As a result, these people can disa
Last March in Beijing an expat mother, Elaine, and her seven-year-old son Boden took an Uber ride that turned out to be more dramatic than the usual routine of dodgy local radio and small talk about smog with the driver.
X-Men: Apocalypse is about to hit theaters, and yet things are awfully quiet when it comes to announcements from the movie's studio--Fox--about any sequels or spin-offs that might come after it. It's possible Fox is waiting for the movie to hav
The Chinese military reportedly is planning to send submarines armed with nuclear weapons to patrol the Pacific Ocean for the first time amid territorial disputes over islands in the region.
ISE-SHIMA, Japan -- Group of Seven leaders voiced concern about emerging economies on Thursday as their host, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, made a pointed comparison to the global financial crisis eight years ago.
Abe presented data showing
featuring government vaccine propaganda. .(NaturalNews) Canada's Ontario province is proposing new amendments to its "Immunization of School Pupils Act," which would require parents to submit to "education sessions" before being allowed to obtain e
(NaturalNews) As readers of Natural News are well aware, the medical industry, in collusion with Big Pharma, has been over-prescribing antibiotics for years, resulting in new strains of superbugs that are difficult to kill. In point of fact, it's not
ghostwritten by a P.R. firm called 'DesignWrite'. NaturalNews) Even though the big revelations about Big Pharma's science paper research fraud came out years ago, most people are still not aware of this. Here's the scoop: Drug companies routinely pa
Using a telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, an international team of scientists has detected the faintest early-universe galaxy ever, according to a report published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
While most scientists believe that the elusive substance known as dark matter is comprised of extremely massive exotic particles, one NASA scientist believes that it might actually be made up of black holes formed during the very first moments of the