Feminist technologies are those technical innovations that empower and bridge the gap between genders. This might make you wonder, why should technology be feminist? Isn’t it already feminist? How can technology be patriarchal at all?
These are all questions that we need to explore in depth. Another important question to be asked in this context is – Have we incorporated patriarchal values inherited from our predecessors into the systems and technology that we create? 
The gender gap in the physical world has been reflected in technology as well. This hitherto hidden face of modern patriarchy was exposed during the pandemic; especially when the vaccination drive began. Access to the internet and technological know-how became indispensable factors to ensure public health, and we observed that the number of women getting vaccinated were far less than the number of men.
In India, 17 per cent more men are vaccinated than women. The reason cited for this disparity is the necessity of men to get inoculated for work and travel. Apart from that, in India, only 14.9 per cent of women use the internet, which is a very skewed statistic considering the digitalized world we are living in. The situation is bleaker for LGBTQIA+ individuals, who are further excluded from the whole scenario. 
Continue reading: https://feminisminindia.com/2021/08/17/women-and-tech-addressing-gender-gap-through-feminist-technology/

We've all heard the common myths why women aren't in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers: young girls aren't interested in such rigorous topics, or women just don't perform as well in them as men. Let's be clear: None of those excuses is based on fact. The point still remains that women are largely underrepresented in these professions. Since 1990, STEM employment has increased by almost 80%, from 9.7 million to 17.3 million STEM jobs. While women comprise 47% of all workers in the U.S., they represent only 24% of the STEM workforce. The percentage of women in STEM is not equally spread out among the disciplines; while women make up three-quarters of the healthcare practitioners and technicians, there is still a shortage of women in other STEM careers, including engineering, computer, and physics. 
This isn't just a conversation for the women. All people must be included in the discussion of how to make STEM an achievable path for young girls and women. This guide discusses the gender divide, its contributing factors and contains some available resources and college programs.
Why are women so underrepresented in STEM?
The reasons women don't pursue STEM careers vary by person and can be attributed to a number of influences. However, some stand out among the list. 
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/bridging-the-gender-divide-guide-to-overcoming-broadband-access-to-be-a-woman-leader-in-stem/

Access to technology plays a huge role in giving birth to gender inequality. Women are confined to traditional roles and have limited access to capital, training, and technology that could enhance their lives. Technology always played a variety of roles in supporting the development of women’s capacities and resources. Technology and social media can be powerful tools for women and girls to take part in democracy, civic action, and peacebuilding, as well as to fight for their basic rights and gender equality. Adapting programming and investing in digital literacy for women and girls is the key to ensure that they can meaningfully participate in these newly opened public spheres.
With a constant process of innovation Anuj Sehgal, the Vice President of Strategic Accounts at BayOne Solutions has served in empowering women in the field of technology. As the IT workforce is very heavily dominated by men and women are not getting fair representation in the workplace, he invested a lot of effort in working with the customers in educating them through their hiring process to get more diversity and inclusion in their ranks.
Marking the Beginning of Making the Difference
IT Consulting and Staffing is a very people-heavy industry that focuses on solving real-time problems of hiring key personnel for the customers and delivering value to ensure business continuity for the organizations. But focusing on personnel problems, the industry tends to lose the goal of efficiency and value proposition for all the stakeholders involved.
Continue reading: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/empowering-women-in-technology-innovations-beyond-excellence/

Last June, the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council’s SWAT team went into the South Shore Plaza in Braintree looking for suspects after a shooting, but they didn’t go in blind. They were led by a Franklin Police Department drone.
“It’s a great tactical tool,” said Franklin Police Lt. Jim West, a department drone operator. “The drone was able to go ahead and make sure there was no one waiting for them when they went around a corner.”
Franklin is just one of several local police departments that have added drones to their toolboxes.
The uses of the drones are many, local police chiefs said, from tactical uses - such as the incident at the mall described by West - to social media, community policing and everything in between. 
“It’s going to have unlimited uses,” said acting Milford Police Chief James Falvey, whose department just recently got a drone. “Whatever we can use it for to help people in the community, we will use it.”
What it takes to have a police drone
Other area departments that have drones include Millis, Sudbury and Westborough.
For police, adding a drone to the department's arsenal isn’t a simple process of just buying it and then flying it. All operators need to get Certification of Operations from the Federal Aviation Administration, Westborough Police Sgt. Cliff Luce said.
Continue reading: https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/2021/08/16/police-use-tactical-tool-drones-help-dangerous-situations/8095565002/

Thousands of drone cargo aircraft could soon provide rapid deliveries across Europe, but maybe not in the way you expect. DHL has signed a deal with European drone company Dronamics to develop middle-mile transport by uncrewed aircraft.
Amazon’s AMZN -1.1% long-promised drone delivery service seems as far off as ever, with reports of the implosion of the UK-based development team. Meanwhile Google Wing’s delivery drones are confined to a trial scheme in Christiansburg, Virginia. But last-mile deliveries were always a hard target. The middle mile is more straightforward, and drone makers Dronamics have just agreed a deal with DHL to speed transport across Europe. The aim is to enable next-day deliveries for time-critical industries such as pharmaceuticals and perishable goods like fresh fruit and meat.
The plan is to develop a solution which combines DHL's existing first-mile and last-mile services for pick-ups and deliveries linking with Dronamics plans for low-cost drones from European airports. This is more achievable than drone deliveries with existing technology.
“The complexity of flying in low altitudes full of obstacles like the kind you have in urban and suburban environments, is orders of magnitude higher,” says Svilen Rangelov, Dronamics cofounder and CEO. “We fly between populated areas, not inside of them, so both the air risk and the ground risk are lower.”
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/08/17/dhl-partners-with-dronamics-for-middle-mile-drone-service/?sh=704b5323362d

Qualcomm is unveiling its platform that enables aerial drones to tap both 5G and AI technologies.
The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G platform will help accelerate development for commercial, enterprise, and industrial drones. The hope is to enable enterprises to capture data from drone cameras and process that data at the edge of the network.
The platform is powered by Qualcomm QRB5165 processor, and it builds upon Qualcomm’s latest internet of things (IoT) offerings. The aim is to enable a new generation of low-power 5G drones that can capture a lot of data via cameras and transmit that data via 5G to an operator or sent it over longer distances over a network. The platform has AI as well so that it can determine what data is most valuable and send that so it can reduce the amount of raw traffic on a network.
The aim is to use 5G to revolutionize the robotics and drone industry, particularly by enabling drone data to be used in private 5G networks for industrial applications such as factories.
Continue reading: https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/17/qualcomm-readies-5g-and-ai-drone-platform/

For a long time, excitement and potential drove the commercial drone industry in a way that could literally be calculated. Countless reports talked up the billions of dollars that commercial drone technology represented, but whether it was the $82 billion estimated by AUVSI or the $127 billion that PwC predicted, the hype associated with drones was mostly irrelevant to the actual users that wanted to adopt the technology to create value. Plenty have done just that in very defined ways over the past few years, but just as the drone industry was in the midst of fully transitioning from hype to reality, COVID-19 changed the paradigm.
As literal social distancing tools, the pandemic highlighted how drones could be utilized in ways that were never envisioned but nonetheless created real value. However, those new opportunities have been complicated by misconceptions that predate the pandemic. Additionally, the regulatory challenges with legally taking a drone into the sky that users have to sort through are just as relevant now as they were in the midst of that hype cycle. What has this evolution of the commercial drone industry meant to the people that are working to define the value of the technology in the present and future?
That very topic is a focus of numerous conference sessions at the upcoming Commercial UAV Expo, where professionals from across the space will come together for what is now recognized as the world's largest show for professionals integrating commercial drone technology. In preparation of the event, we connected with numerous experts across the space to capture their insights around how expectations associated with the technology will impact the market in the short and long term.
Continue reading: https://www.commercialuavnews.com/infrastructure/has-the-evolution-of-the-commercial-drone-industry-created-opportunities-or-cultivated-misconceptions

In May, Uganda Flying Labs conducted a drone application training course with 75% of the attendants coming from the nation’s agricultural sector. Uganda is not the only nation in Africa taking steps to adopt drone technology. In Togo, in West Africa, e-AgriSky, a vocational farmer’s training school, has recently admitted 16 students from across Africa to learn more about drones. Such private sector-driven initiatives may be the baby steps towards fully adopting the technology in Africa’s agriculture. While some argue that the small-scale nature of most African farms limits the application of drones, offering drones as a service is a viable option that entrepreneurs should consider. This model allows a few drones to be used by many farmers, delivering the benefits of drone technology in agriculture while realizing reasonable profits to ensure sustainability.
Drone technology traces its history to military applications, where it is deployed in aerial surveillance. In recent years, drones have found their way into agriculture in various applications, including land and crop surveying, inspection and monitoring, and agricultural assets and insurance. Previously, other technologies such as satellites and helicopters performed most of these applications at substantial operational costs and limited efficiency. Thanks to drones, which usually come equipped with sensors and software to gather and process data, most of the mentioned agricultural operations are now much easier to conduct and at a lower cost. While the technology’s adoption is at advanced stages in other parts of the world, its application in Africa remains a challenge for various reasons.
Continue reading: https://intpolicydigest.org/drones-in-africa-a-viable-business-model-for-small-entrepreneurs/

The past decade has seen several structural changes in know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations in Europe and globally. High-profile money laundering cases and the penetration of illicit funds into global markets have caught the attention of regulators and the public, and rightfully so.
The Wirecard scandal was a particularly salacious example, in which the investigation into widespread fraud revealed a chain of shell companies involved in illegal distribution of narcotics and pornography. Over at Danske Bank, some $227 billion was laundered through an Estonian subsidiary, going virtually unnoticed for nine years.
In the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an action against Ripple Labs and two of its executives, claiming they had raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, ongoing digital asset securities offering. That case is ongoing.
As regulators and financial institutions improve their understanding of these criminal practices, AML requirements have likewise been improved. But these adjustments have been an overwhelmingly reactive, trial-by-fire process.
Continue reading: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/16/regulating-crypto-is-essential-to-ensuring-its-global-legitimacy/

• Microsoft is looking to use the ethereum blockchain to combat digital piracy, according to a recent white paper published by the firm.
• The company is exploring a new system named Argus, which it dubbed as the "first public anti-piracy system."
• Across 11 pages, Microsoft laid out the design, implementation, and evaluation of the new system.

Software giant Microsoft is looking to use the ethereum blockchain to combat digital piracy by relying on the network's transparent and decentralized nature, according to a new paper released by the firm's research department.
The Redmond-based company is exploring a new concrete system named Argus, which Microsoft dubbed as the "first public anti-piracy system."
In the 11-page paper, Microsoft - together with researchers from Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba and Carnegie Mellon University - laid out the design, implementation, and evaluation of the new system.
Continue reading: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/microsoft-msft-ethereum-blockchain-fight-piracy-digital-tech-public-ledger-2021-8

Cryptocurrency and blockchain have become buzzwords these days. While cryptocurrency has been a tad easier to understand as a concept, the blockchain technology that cryptocurrency runs on has been a complex one to grasp. In the simplest of terms, blockchain can be defined as a database that stores data in blocks. The information is recorded in these blocks in a way that makes it difficult to hack or cheat or change the system. Since the blocks of information create a chain, hence the name blockchain.
How Does It Work?
A blockchain is essentially a digital ledger that keeps a record of all transactions carried out on the system. These transactions are then duplicated to be reflected across all computer systems active on the blockchain. Every time a new transaction is carried out the blockchain stores the data on that participant's block and is reflected across all digital ledgers on that network. All transaction data present on the systems of the blockchain can be accessed from any part of the world. 
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First-generation blockchains generated some of the biggest hype in the history of IT before flaming out in a morass of abandoned deployments and failed expectations. The lack of enterprise readiness, from inflexible storage solutions to missing compliance regimes to poor scalability and high costs, resulted in many early deployments being abandoned.
What’s changed in blockchain 2.0? The new generation of blockchains are practical, cloud friendly, high performance, software-as-a-service-based and already tackling enterprise use cases around the globe. Blockchain is back, and it's (finally) ready for its close-up.
The Missing Use Case
Blockchain 1.0 lacked actual use cases. Throw in confusion over competing technologies, “public” versus “private” chain debates and more, and it was a frustrating, multi-year detour that soured many IT leaders on even hearing the term “blockchain.”
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/08/17/blockchain-20-finally-ready-for-the-enterprise/?sh=26678f4e158d

We often hear about applications of technology bound to alter the status quo. Blockchain, notably, has had its fair share in the limelight with much focus on cryptocurrency, tokens and mining. But this is misplaced idolatry, and while several crypto-enthusiasts have made bank (pun intended) on decentralized electronic currencies, the real near-term value of blockchain is in tethering the technology to the mitigation of climate change.
How does one get from the current hopped-up non-fungible token craze to a net-zero world in less than 30 years or less? It may start with the Biden Administration. With steep targets to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) to reach net-zero emissions economywide by no later than 2050, global businesses and industrial companies are deeply amid a flurry of churning nerves and strategies aimed at tackling the crisis at hand. Megacompanies — including prominent tech companies — are hot-to-trot to tout progress with emission reduction programs, but there are numerous obstacles. One of the largest issues is that of unreliable or inaccurate data. Another significant obstacle: environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure requirements from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is expected this fall and is already making ripples.
The precipitous rise of ESG has reinvigorated participation in carbon offsetting programs as a steppingstone to make headway on sustainability targets. With this renewal, near-term applications of blockchain can provide immutable veracity (a much-needed and previously missing component) to offsetting practices — and in doing so, can aid in achieving progress on the path to net-zero.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/08/16/the-near-term-future-of-blockchain-tracking-carbon-offsets/?sh=543775475790

Artificial intelligence has always been met with both excitement and fear. It can make tasks much easier — but it can also replace jobs. It gets the same mixed reception in the world of accounting.
For CPAs who use it well, automation can take over some of the more mundane, time-consuming tasks. For CPAs offering advisory services, an estimated 80% of advisory time is used for processing information — just the sort of thing automation is built for. With so much effort devoted to tasks a machine could do, CPAs and their clients alike may begin to wonder if the CPA could just be replaced by this incredible technology.
For companies who are intrigued by the idea of AI replacing their CPAs (and CPAs who fear as much), it might be time to pump the brakes a little. As with other technologies that have emerged over the years, this tool is only as good as the craftsman who wields it. Here's why every business should have a real, live CPA — even with the advancement of AI.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/08/16/why-every-business-needs-an-accountant---dont-leave-it-up-to-ai/?sh=13d61b731a83

Everyone is familiar with IBM’s leadership in IT, AI, and cloud services. It also happens to be one of the leading providers for Enterprise Asset Management software through its Maximo line of software and services. These tools help manage large machines, like factories, powerplants, and heavy equipment.
Now, with the rise of digital twins, IBM is pivoting this business as an onramp to bringing intelligence, agility, and efficiency to a wide range of industries. The company has gone so far as to declare “You cannot have AI without Digital Twin.” The new IBM digital twin exchange promises to create an app store for the digitization of the physical world that brings together enterprises and various services and tools providers.
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We caught up with Lisa Seacat DeLuca, distinguished engineer and director of Emerging Solutions at IBM, who leads IBM’s digital twin research. She is also the most prolific woman inventor in company history; she has filed more than 800 patent applications and had over 600 granted.
Her team develops tools that are changing how engineers and technicians do their jobs by combining digital twins, AI, and IoT technologies and allowing organizations to share expertise across common assets.
She has also published two children’s books for geeky kids, “The Internet of Mysterious Things” and “A Robot Story.”
Continue reading: https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/16/how-ibm-is-using-digital-twins-to-optimize-ai/

The web is full of stories detailing all the wonderful things artificial intelligence (AI) can do, and all the terrible things as well. But now that the deployment phase is well underway, one salient question remains: What is it like to work with AI?
For most people, the AI experience has been limited to consumer releases like Siri and Alexa, which, at the beginning at least, did not exactly shine. Yes, they could name the capital of Albania and direct you to the nearest coffee shop, but beyond that, the broad impression has been that AI is not all that intelligent. In fact, it can be downright stupid.
Training the newbie
In the workplace, the first thing most people will likely notice is that AI won’t simply take over all the tedious, unpleasant jobs right out of the box. It must be told what to do first. This is a radical departure from past generations of software in which users had to be trained and retrained with each new release. Going forward, the software will change on its own, but the user must do the training.
For this reason, said Turker Coskun, group manager at software developer C3 AI, AI apps will require a lot more care and feeding than traditional enterprise programs. The performance of any number of operating models will not remain consistent over time, due to AI’s ability to ingest data and alter its own operations as circumstances and objectives change. To accommodate this, many leading AI adopters are implementing MLOps frameworks (an intelligent form of DevOps) to continuously monitor performance and kick the AI back on track if it starts to drift beyond accepted parameters.
Continue reading: https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/16/bringing-your-ai-coworker-up-to-speed/

Most industrial organizations don't need to be sold on AI. They know its benefits, its value for being competitive, and that it's critical to their existence as a business. Consider some of the findings from a 2019 Accenture study, where 84% of C-suite executives said AI was essential to achieving their growth objectives, and 75% added that failing to scale AI across their organization will lead to them going out of business in five years.
So, the will to adopt AI is there; nobody still needs to hear the sales pitch. What's needed, though, is guidance on just how and where to get started.
How do you make AI real in the industrial space? With Industrial AI — AI solutions purpose-built for industrial sector applications. The issue organizations run into with adopting and scaling AI across the enterprise is this notion that AI needs to be applied to every system and business process right away. But implementing AI isn't like flipping a switch. If your measure of success is going to be based on turning an AI-less organization into an entirely AI-powered one overnight, you're almost certainly going to fail. Instead, start smaller and evolve your roadmap incrementally — with AI embedded into specific industrial applications underpinned by an ROI-driven use case. This ensures a more gradual transition, one that's easier to scale and quicker to prove value.
These Industrial AI applications need to be guided by domain knowledge and carefully chosen for purpose-fit, tangible use cases. While needs will vary between plants and the business problems you want to resolve, here are a few choice use cases that might help you start your own Industrial AI strategy — and reap a faster time-to-ROI from it.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/08/17/jumpstart-your-industrial-ai-strategy-with-these-three-use-cases/?sh=2db6c8f9139a

Latest released COVID-19 Outbreak-Global Internet of Things (IoT) in Energy Market Research Report provides detailed assessment of Key and emerging players showcasing company profiles, product/service offerings, market price, and sales revenue to better derive market size estimation. With this assessment the aim is to provide viewpoint on upcoming trends, growth drivers, opinions and facts derived from industry executives with statistically supported and market validated data. Furthermore, a detailed commentary on How or Why this market may see a growth momentum during the forecast period is analyzed and correlated with dominating and emerging players strength and weakness.
What's keeping AGT International, Maven Systems, Davra Networks, IBM, Flutura, Northwest Analytics, Cisco, Wind River, SAP, Carriots, Symboticware & ILS Technology gain competitive edge in COVID-19 Outbreak-Global Internet of Things (IoT) in Energy Market and stay up-to-date with available business opportunity in various segments and emerging territory.
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Ife Joseph is only 11, but she has something to say.
The Montclair sixth grader, a poet and computer coder, has read her work on stage and designed an app as part of a collaboration between MIT and the group Black Girls Code. This spring, she was nominated to be Time magazine's "Kid of the Year," and was named one of 50 finalists out of 5,000 applicants before being eliminated.
Ife, who learned to code at age 6, became worried about racial inequality after George Floyd's death in 2020. "I saw what was happening and I didn't like it," she said. "I wanted to make a change, to be one small part of the thing that can help." 
Last spring, she was part of a "hackathon" between MIT and Black Girls CODE, the California-based nonprofit designed to combat the scarcity of black women in technology. On the last day of the coding marathon, the university invited participants to enter a contest to design an app focused on specific social themes. She signed up and created an app called “Mental Health for Social Justice," a digital journal for kids. With prompts and positive affirmations, the app makes it easier for kids to express their feelings and experiences around racial injustice. 
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Ritu Thareja’s fascination for computers started while she was in school. She started writing BASIC codes and algorithms during her spare time, which led her to pursue a career in computer science.
But her road to her current position as Vice President, Software Development, Fiserv, did not start easy.
Her parents, who hail from small towns in Haryana and Rajasthan, had seen a life of financial hardships and faced societal prejudices for believing in her – a girl child.
“Despite this, they believed in my capabilities and ensured I received a good education, even if that meant selling their ‘only’ asset to pay my engineering college admission fee. Driven by their faith in me, I was determined to seek financial independence and security,” she says.
As a mathematics geek, her interest was reflected through top academic scores in subjects that involved mental math, logical reasoning, and data interpretation. After completing her BE in electrical engineering at Punjab Engineering College, Ritu joined Infosys as a mainframe programmer on banking projects and steadily managed technology teams to drive outcomes in the digital space.
Continue reading: https://yourstory.com/herstory/2021/08/women-tech-fiserv-ritu-thareja/amp

• First-ever AI-based 360° drone cybersecurity system that can detect, prevent, and respond to multiple cyber threats in real-time without requiring an operator
• Designed specifically for industrial and commercial drones, robotics, and autonomous platforms, Mobilicom’s ICE Cybersecurity Suite is a 3600 and multi-layered system that protects the platform, safeguards communication channels, and encrypts data
• The system will be incorporated into Mobilicom’s range of end-to-end smart solutions for the drone and robotics market and caters to fast-growing cybersecurity demand
• The Cybersecurity Suite expands Mobilicom’s offering and aligns with its transition to a software-as-a-service business model

Mobilicom Limited (Mobilicom or the Company, ASX: MOB) has launched its AI-based Immunity Cybersecurity and Encryption (ICE) cybersecurity suite to provide industry-leading 360° protection for commercial and industrial drones, robotics, and autonomous platforms against a wide variety of malicious attacks, including jamming.
Mobilicom’s ICE cybersecurity suite is the first AI-based 360° system in the world to be able to detect, prevent and respond to multiple drone/robotics cyber-attacks in real-time without requiring intervention by an operator. The ICE multi-faceted and multi-layered suite protects the platform, safeguards communication channels and encrypts the data that is transmitted and collected.
Specifically designed for commercial and industrial drone, robotics and autonomous platforms, Mobilcom’s ICE cybersecurity solution protects against more than 10 different types of cyber breaches and malicious attacks including jamming.
Continue reading: https://www.suasnews.com/2021/08/mobilicom-launches-world-first-ai-based-360-cybersecurity-suite-for-drones-robotics/

Ready to launch a blockchain project? Not so fast. Before you get started, you’ll want to make sure you know how to take a blockchain project from start to finish. CompTIA’s Blockchain Advisory Council has developed an infographic to help technology and business professionals better understand the seven phases of blockchain implementation.
Phase 1: Learn
Ensure everyone in your organization understands blockchain.

• Review recent research, business use cases and case studies.

Phase 2: Strategize
Integrate blockchain strategies into your business strategy.

• Define the business transformation opportunity.
• Determine if blockchain is the right choice.
• Develop a blockchain strategy.
• Integrate the blockchain strategy into the current business strategy.

 
Continue reading: https://connect.comptia.org/content/infographic/7-phases-of-blockchain-implementation/

According to its potential, blockchain is being used in various sectors of our life
A blockchain is a digital database, often known as a ledger, that is used to collaboratively record information and transactions. Blockchain is currently widely discussed in the media throughout the world. They’ve already been used in a variety of applications as decentralized ways to fraud-resistant computing that don’t rely on a trusted authority. A distributed, append-only log of time-stamped entries that is secured by cryptography from manipulation and alteration is known as a blockchain. Because of its unique characteristics, blockchain has been proposed for usage in a variety of applications following its successful implementation in Bitcoin.
1. Finance: By establishing a distributed public ledger, the blockchain reduces the complexities involved with financial services by allowing miners to verify transactions using proof-of-work.
2. Cryptocurrency: Blockchain has enabled the creation of cryptocurrency, which now has a market capitalization in the billions of dollars. A new block is created by running a consensus method such as proof-of-work on the Bitcoin network, which is based on a blockchain – a distributed transaction public ledger.
Continue reading: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/blockchain-is-being-used-in-various-sectors-of-our-life/

The study of history and ancient people is immensely important to preserving the knowledge passed down through the generations. 
Unfortunately, the significance of the knowledge is particularly acute when it is lost. With tragedies such as the fire of the Library of Alexandria, or the pillaging of the House of Wisdom in ancient Baghdad, or the more recent losses of artifacts at the Iraq Museum, perspectives were lost, advancements in philosophy and literature were forgotten, and languages and translations vanished from the earth. 
As we look to preserve our history, how can we safeguard the artifacts of our heritage from disaster?
Using blockchain technology to keep a record of the data stored on a decentralized cloud service could be exactly what the historical and archive industries need to protect our collective human history from destruction, pillage and faulty record-keeping.
Blockchain as a data keeper
The archive industry in many sub-sections is underfunded and lacks the means to properly care for the data being held. As told in this 2014 declaration petitioning for more funding for the United States Archive, it is clear that there is a lack of funding on many fronts, which could result in the loss of physical and digital records. 
An alternative solution is to store data directly on the blockchain. As David Vorick, CEO of Skynet and co-founder of Sia, said to Cointelegraph, “a major advantage of using a blockchain is that you can build on an open marketplace, which ensures fair pricing for everyone.” This prevents third parties from taking part of the funding, while also making sure that community members who are passionate about protecting their heritage can fund a storage system directly. 
Continue reading: https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-blockchain-could-have-saved-the-library-of-alexandria

The blockchain industry market size was estimated by some to reach more than $21 billion by 2025. The market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market as a whole already reaches over $1.9 trillion. An ecosystem that was once defined by its tight-knit community and exclusivity now reaches governments, businesses, institutional investors and individuals who are all becoming more positive about the evolving space.
With this new popularity, a crossroads has emerged. We have reached the stage of adoption where the amount of users utilizing decentralized technology has exceeded the functionality of the technology itself. This has resulted in regularly congested networks and a demand for solutions.
Many of the roadblocks we are experiencing could easily be solved with scaling solutions such as bridges, parachains and other features that create seamless transitions for Web 3.0 users and depend solely on a shared vision of a multichain approach to the next wave of blockchain adoption.
Scalability: The Ethereum challenge
Today, nearly all DeFi projects are being built on the Ethereum blockchain, making it the standard default blockchain for many decentralized applications (DApps) and protocols. However, scalability on Ethereum has presented many challenges. The pain points that have delayed adoption include costly gas fees, a complicated onboarding process and unnecessary repetition and obstacles for developers aiming to create new DApps and accompanying products.
Continue reading: https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-multichain-approach-is-the-future-of-the-blockchain-industry