When it comes to the financial services industry, women have been systematically excluded for a long time. While they make up nearly half the world’s population, they are also massively underrepresented in the financial services industry.
Cryptocurrencies are a natural fit for women. Not only are they inherently digital and decentralized, but they’re also about democratizing financial services and giving everyone a fair chance to participate in the economy.
Cryptocurrencies allow women to take financial power back from the big banks, governments, and other male-dominated institutions. Women can now use a cryptocurrency to gain the same advantages as men, whether it’s access to credit, savings, investments, or other financial services. Here’s a look at why women should care about cryptocurrency.
What is Cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency (sometimes simply called ‘crypto’) is a digital currency that doesn’t depend on a centralized institution to monitor, create and distribute it. Instead, digital currencies are created through a process called “mining.” Mining involves solving mathematical problems to get coins. Unlike traditional forms of currency, cryptocurrency can be sent and received by anyone, anywhere. Some popular cryptocurrencies you might know are Bitcoin and Etherium.
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Regular listeners to Decoder know I’m pretty skeptical of crypto. But I want to come by that skepticism honestly, so I talk to people who are actually investing in and building crypto startups and technology. There is a lot of money, attention, and energy — both literal and metaphorical — in crypto, and I think it’s important to ask the questions and really listen to the answers. We’ve done a few of these episodes now, but this episode is a conversation I’ve wanted to have from the very beginning.
Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, among others. He is also a prolific user of Twitter, where he posts lengthy threads about crypto and web3. He is at once one of the biggest investors in the space and its biggest booster.
Chris is a smart guy who has been around the industry a long time and has seen a lot of tech hype come and go. This episode gets way into the weeds and, while we do talk over each other here and there, I think excited but respectful disagreement is in too short supply these days, so we wanted to keep all of that in the episode.
Continue reading: https://www.theverge.com/23020727/decoder-chris-dixon-web3-crypto-a16z-vc-silicon-valley-investing-podcast-interview

Fans of Web3 technology say it will revolutionize the internet, ushering in a new, decentralized phase of the web run by normal people instead of massive platforms like Facebook or Google. 
But as the concept has gained fire over the past year, tech giants have taken notice — and want in. 
Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, filed multiple trademark applications for Web3 software late last month. Spotify wants Web3 experts. Microsoft is backing Web3-based startups. 
But first, what exactly is Web3?
Decentralization of the internet
Web3 is all about decentralization — it aims to give users more control over their data. 
Theorists say the web was once a more open place. It was run by real people who built their own websites. These sites were read-only, so data flowed from the site to the user — this was Web1. 
Big technology companies like Facebook and Google created a new iteration of the web. Their clickable, shareable, highly interactive platforms molded the internet as we know it today — Web2.  
Now our interactions with the web generate vital intelligence about online behavior in the form of data. Companies use this information to make new platforms and generate targeted ads. They also sell it to third parties. Theorists say this creates an environment where users have little to no autonomy over where their data goes. 
The term "Web3" was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, but only entered public consciousness last year when it started gaining traction in Twitter and Discord communities.
This online buzz has ushered in a new moment for Web3-focused investment. Companies catered toward Web3 projects closed funding rounds with Softbank Vision Fund 2 and Microsoft. a16z, an early investor in Facebook, also promised to raise $1 billion for Web3 seed investments.  
Some say this influx of Big Tech money leaves an uncomfortable stain on the Web3 dream.  
"They change the nature of it and remove some of the larger ideological parts such as autonomy and self-sovereignty," said Web3 ethicist Kai Morris in an interview with DW. 
Continue reading: https://www.dw.com/en/web3-what-is-it/a-61362914

Digital assets are today’s burgeoning investment asset class dominated by a new generation of Generation Z and millennial investors, who may be causing a shift in conventional retail IR practices.
Since 2020, this global group of blockchain investors has diversified its Bitcoin and cryptocurrency portfolios to embrace decentralized finance (DeFi). These investors are buying, holding, lending and staking tokens – central to fueling use-cases and business models that make DeFi projects work. Tokens represent a tradable asset or utility that allows the holder to use it for investment or economic purposes. They are built on top of an existing blockchain network, most often Ethereum, and can serve a multitude of functions in DeFi mechanisms, such as governance and voting.
DeFi has ushered in new crowdfunding capabilities enabling companies – projects in blockchain parlance – to find buyers and liquidity for their tokens. This is done through initial distributed exchange offerings (IDOs) such as Uniswap, and initial centralized exchange offerings like Coinbase. Investors are seeking the long-term appreciation that owning an early-stage company’s token could bring, and using their token to participate in yield farming – a DeFi practice of staking or lending crypto assets to generate high returns or rewards in the form of additional cryptocurrency.
Continue reading: https://www.irmagazine.com/technology-social-media/business-blockchain-how-engage-digitally-native-next-generation

Despite the doom and gloom that has engulfed discussions about the Great Resignation, there’s a lot to look forward to for businesses large and small. Coming out of Covid, businesses have the opportunity to leapfrog their competition and hire the best and brightest, but only if they revamp how they hire.
The importance of data and how it powers decision-making in the world of business has been covered ad nauseum. Most leaders know they need to leverage data in how they hire as well. But how?
One emerging idea is leveraging blockchain technologies. Blockchain can speed up hiring and give employers access to the trusted, verified and comprehensive data they need to make the best hiring decisions. In fact, blockchain solves one of the most acute problems facing hiring managers and prepares businesses for a future of continuous upskilling and reskilling in the workforce.
Online certification programs and continuing education opportunities are now pervasive. Employers will soon need to find a way to verify applicant credentials for having completed a course or certification. Blockchain would not only solve this problem for employers, it would also empower lifelong learners in the workforce and reward educational institutions.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/04/12/data-certification-is-the-blockchain-application-of-the-future/?sh=4c325cb41b57

Most of us interact with artificial intelligence (AI) on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not. Every time you ask Alexa or Siri a question or turn to Google to settle a bar bet on who owns the National Football League’s record for most career touchdowns (the answer, by the way, is Jerry Rice), you’re using AI.
In the business world, AI is ubiquitous. From AI bots that can identify, evaluate, and make recommendations for streamlining business processes to cybersecurity systems that continuously monitor data input patterns in order to thwart cyberattacks, AI repeatedly has demonstrated its capacity for processing and analyzing reams of data faster and more accurately than a human ever could.
While there can be little doubt that AI has proved to be a highly valuable and effective tool, today’s AI falls short in a number of basic tasks any child could perform. Does today’s AI really comprehend what it is doing when it performs these various tasks? Put another way, is artificial intelligence really intelligent?
The answer, at least right now, is no. While its accomplishments to date are impressive, the AI most of us experience is more like a powerful method of statistical analysis than a real form of intelligence. So while AI gives the illusion that it “knows” what is happening when it attempts to perform a given task, in reality, it achieves that task because it has been fed immense amounts of data pertaining to the task.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/12/your-ai-doesnt-really-understand-you/?sh=1c375bf07a3c

Recruitment and hiring are on the mind of most business leaders as companies manage the ongoing impact of the Great Resignation. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 4 million Americans quit their jobs in each of the last six months, as of February 2022. This unprecedented turnover has put organizations large and small in competition for top-level talent.
Companies vying for potential employees will seek every possible advantage in order to complete a successful hire. Many organizations view speed and efficiency as an essential component of their recruiting operations; as a result, these companies have begun using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like chatbots, prerecorded digital interviews and resume screeners to accelerate the process of screening and inviting candidates for interviews.
While AI can undoubtedly empower companies to move faster with their recruiting and hiring processes, there are some caveats and pitfalls to consider before deploying it widely. Here are five tips on what to evaluate when using AI in hiring, as well as some solutions to these potential challenges:
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in popularity, and it's not hard to see why. AI has the potential to be applied in many different ways, from cooking to healthcare.
Though artificial intelligence may be a buzzword today, tomorrow, it might just become a standard part of our everyday lives. In fact - it's already here.
1. Self-driving cars
Self-driving cars will soon become the norm (Image credit: Getty)
They work and continue to advance by using lots of sensor data, learning how to handle traffic and making real-time decisions.
Also known as autonomous vehicles, these cars use AI tech and machine learning to move around without the passenger having to take control at any time.
2. Smart assistants
Let's begin with something really ubiquitous - smart digital assistants. Here we are talking about Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa and Cortana.
We included them in our list because they can essentially listen and then respond to your commands, turning them into actions.
So, you hit up Siri, you give her a command, like "call a friend," she analyzes what you said, sifts through all the background noise surrounding your speech, interprets your command, and actually does it, all in a couple of seconds.
The best part here is that these assistants are getting smarter and smarter, improving every stage of the command process we mentioned above. You don't have to be as specific with your commands as you were just a couple of years ago.
Furthermore, virtual assistants have become better and better at figuring out filtering useless background noise from your actual commands.
Continue reading: https://www.itproportal.com/features/12-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-in-everyday-life/

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have created a new frontier called Web 3.0, whose claim that they will ‘democratize’ the internet by providing decentralized recognition of web page addresses (domain names). It seems the view I have expressed before about the need for a global body like the UN to monitor and manage both the security as well as the equitable distribution of technology has more takers than I first thought.
Web 3.0 is an attempt to remove the centralization of domain name registries and the hegemony of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It relies on blockchain technology to accomplish this.
One of the firms now doing so is called Unstoppable Domains Inc. and relies on the Ethereum blockchain to mint web domains that are created and managed solely by their owners—that is, people like you and me.
To understand why this is important, one needs to know how the internet is controlled today. Domain name services or DNS companies form the backbone of present-day internet since they provide an integral tool to internet users, which translates simple English-based commands like “financialexpress.com” typed into a browser to the actual numeric addresses that the internet’s computers use to identify each website. Users can’t remember a string of numbers like 192.26.32.40 for each website—all they want to do is type in the name that they are familiar with. These DNS firms act much like automated phone directories so that this can be accomplished.
Continue reading: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/democratising-the-internet-the-promise-of-web-3-0/2488341/

Crypto, blockchain or Web3 is the new section of the advanced economy across Africa 
This moment’s a decent opportunity to awaken and invest in crypto Africa 
Investment firms, award funders, legislatures and that’s only the tip of the iceberg as part of the system
Well for one, as indicated by investigation firm Chainalysis, Africa’s crypto market expanded in esteem by over 1,200% between July 2020 and June 2021. Driven by particularly high reception rates in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania, Africa had the third-quickest developing digital money economy overall during that period. 
What’s more, that is not all. Chainalysis additionally observed that Africa drives the world in the portion of generally crypto exchange volume coming from distributed, a sign that African buyers in crypto-unpleasant purviews are progressively finding workarounds to unequivocal and implied boycotts.
Close by the general development in digital currency exchanging and exchanges across Africa, the most recent a year have seen a sped up speed of action across the landmass from blockchain networks/conventions, Related: Crypto firms overlook Africa at their hazard as mainland set for significant reception.
Continue reading: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2022/04/11/web3-blockchain-and-crypto-developments-in-africa/

At the height of the nonfungible token (NFT) rally in 2021, Sky Mavis, the creator of Axie Infinity, rolled in like the Trojan horse and coined the term play-to-earn (P2E) for blockchain games. Axie Infinity grew in popularity after amassing a $3 billion valuation and it steadily onboarded millions into Web3. According to Axie Infinity co-founder Aleksander Larsen, roughly 50% of Axie Infinity’s daily active users (DAUs) had never had a cryptocurrency wallet until they began playing.
As a result, the Web3 ecosystem perked up at the prospect of utilizing games as a method to onboard new entrants. Despite this, most blockchain platforms, protocols and games in their current state are inherently complicated and cumbersome to navigate. However, entities are emerging to lessen the burdens and barriers of interacting in the ecosystem and onboarding prior to making the plunge into Web3.
Crypto Raiders is doing exactly that. On March 29, the project completed a $6 million seed funding round with the aim to further expand its team and marketing strategies. By pivoting from play-to-earn to play-to-own, Crypto Raiders is focusing less on financial incentives and more on the elements of fun gameplay.
The project aims to develop an environment where gamers are not solely players but asset owners. In an effort to further understand the benefits of this narrative, Cointelegraph spoke with the creators and co-founders of CryptoRaiders Nick Kreupner, David Titarenco and Matt Powell about how they are onboarding new and traditional gamers into Web3.
Continue reading: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-raiders-explains-how-blockchain-gaming-attracts-new-users-to-web3

Investment in artificial intelligence startups hit a record high of $59 billion in 2021, up from $28 billion in 2020, according to Crunchbase data.
Venture investment in AI startups will only continue to rise in the next five years. That’s because AI has finally reached a tipping point where it is powerful and affordable enough to make a real economic impact on diverse industries.
AI is a broad category, but generally encompasses all “intelligent” software that can learn from itself in some capacity. This can include machine-learning platforms and the software used by robots, and self-driving vehicles to interpret the environments around them.
For decades, AI has been developed and used by computer scientists to train all kinds of autonomous systems. But what’s changed today is that AI is no longer stuck in the lab; it’s the backbone of fast-growing startups with the potential to become multibillion-dollar businesses.
Today, companies in industries as diverse as finance, retail, health care, food production, manufacturing, logistics and transportation are deploying AI to improve everyday business processes, automate their workflows and, sometimes, to introduce autonomous robots.
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I recently listened to a great podcast by Google's cybersecurity experts on the topic of secure artificial intelligence (AI). The range of issues raised seemed, to me, very interesting and relevant. But because the podcast was limited in time, some of the extremely important topics were covered only too briefly. That's why I decided to take a closer look at some of the topics raised in the podcast—and this has become the article you're reading right now.
AI Risks
The topic of AI risks, especially when related to security, is currently gaining more popularity. For example, back in 2020, when my company collected information on the most critical security-related AI incidents of the past decade, we were only able to mention six. However, more recently, it was difficult for us to determine the most significant ones for the list of the 10 most notorious AI incidents in 2021.
I won't go into detail on each incident now, but I will mention the facial recognition bypass incident in which a man attempted to steal over $2.5 million in state funds, and the Zillow case, which resulted in a $6 billion drop in the company's valuation. As a result, Zillow had to lay off 25% of its workforce and sell 7,000 homes with a total asset value in excess of the $2.8 billion previously acquired. The reason for this is that routine machine learning models can lead to extremely serious consequences if mismanaged.
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For mobile operators, the edge is a new frontier. And like geographic frontiers such as the American Wild West, the mobile edge is full of both promise and peril. Going at it alone is risky.
That’s why 89% of communications service providers (CSPs) that have launched multi-access edge computing (MEC) solutions, or plan to do so by the end of 2023, and are partnering with hyperscalers, according to a market engagement exerciseof 82 communication service providers. There’s a variety of reasons why, but surprisingly, saving money is not one of them. Only 13% of CSPs respondents say they partner with a hyperscaler to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
As Figure 1 shows, ease of deployment is the top reason by a wide margin. “It is even more dominant with the largest carriers that earn $5 billion+ in annual revenue - with 67% selecting it compared to 49% for smaller carriers,” says Heavy Reading Principal Analyst, Jennifer Clark.
Figure 1: The reasons CSPs partner with hyperscalers (Q: Why do you plan to partner with a hyperscaler to deliver your edge computing? Select up to three.)
Besides enabling mobile operators to snap up enterprise customers before slower rivals, speedy rollouts also mean faster time to revenue. That’s a major plus because edge compute, connectivity and related private 5G campus networks are key for driving a return on their enormous 5G investments.
Continue reading: https://www.thefastmode.com/expert-opinion/24212-hyperscaling-the-edge-why-cost-reduction-does-not-matter-as-operators-partner-with-hyperscalers

Providing a cloud native edge compute platform capable of services across many enterprise industries. 2022 will be a pivotal year for enterprise digital transformation as modular cloud native edge compute and private 5G network equipment, devices and spectrum become more available. Digital transformation is not an option for enterprises. It is table stakes for enterprises to stay ahead of their competition, drive continuous cost reductions, while creating new offerings to generate new revenue streams. Dell Technologies Services Edge 1.2 release offers edge computing and private 5G, ready now for enterprise digital transformation. According to IDC, manufacturing and retail businesses are among the top in edge spending forecasts. Retailers understand consumers demand an omni-channel experience. Manufacturing and resources companies are constantly looking for new ways to automate and to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). Based on a survey conducted by Analysys Mason and Accedian, 76% of manufacturers plan to adopt private 5G by 2024. Automating the detection of defects using sensors or robotics, predictive maintenance to reduce downtime, robotics such as automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to reduce labor costs and computer vision to detect safety compliances are just some examples of use cases where fast computation with milliseconds latency is critical. Private 5G networks provide low latency connectivity for sensors and devices, generating volumes of data to be processed on the premise edge, thereby providing data sovereignty, privacy, control and security to enterprises. Private 5G provides a stable, reliable network for mission-critical industrial applications such as powering digital mines, closing connectivity gaps in remote mining areas, providing employee safety and increasing productivity. Dell Technologies, a key infrastructure and technology partner of Rogers Business 5G wireless private network (WPN) solution for the launch of the Kirkland Lake Gold’s Detour Lake Mine, the second-largest gold producing mine in Canada, provides scalable, modular, virtualized edge infrastructure enabling end-to-end reliability, redundancy and low latency network. Communications service providers (CSPs) play an important role in the success of enterprise digital transformation. TBR reported CSPs will represent over 77% of the total edge infrastructure market, which is projected to total $100B in 2025. An Analysys Mason and Accedian survey reported 68% of manufacturers are interested in working with managed service providers with the expertise to deploy private 5G network. CSPs can bundle cloud and edge infrastructure, SD-WAN and network security and transport in an as-a-service offering to simplify edge deployment and help enterprises scale their investment according to the growth of the business.
Continue reading: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/sponsored/edge-compute-and-private-5g-ready-digital-transformation

You want edge computing? How about 250 miles straight up? HP Enterprise has announced that the Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2) on the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully completed 24 research experiments in less than a year.
The SBC-2 is the first in-space commercial edge computing and AI-enabled system to run on the ISS, according to HPE, and was installed in May 2021. The experiments involved real-time data processing and testing of new applications to prove reliability in space to increase autonomy for astronauts. HPE said the experiments reduced the time-to-insight from days and months to minutes.
How to choose an edge gateway
SBC-2 consists of HPE’s Edgeline Converged EL4000 Edge system, which is designed to perform in harsher edge environments, including space. SBC-2 is also made up of the HPE ProLiant DL360 high-performance server designed for workloads like HPC, and AI.
The supercomputer is designed to help astronauts avoid the need to send data down to earth for processing, and just process it in space. This will be especially useful as humans travel beyond Earth orbit to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
For example, HPE described how it previously needed 12.2 hours to transfer 1.8 GB of raw DNA sequence data to Earth for initial processing. With SBC-2, researchers on the ISS could process the same data in just six minutes to find meaningful insights, compress it to 92 KB, and send it to Earth in just two seconds, representing a 20,000X speed-up.
“By introducing edge computing and AI capabilities to the International Space Station with Spaceborne Computer-2, we have helped foster a growing, collaborative research community that shares a common goal to make scientific and engineering breakthroughs that benefit humankind, on space and here on Earth,” said Mark Fernandez, principal investigator of Spaceborne Computer-2 at HPE in a statement.
The SBC-2 has also run experiments for researchers developing space exploration capabilities, including Axiom Space, Cornell University, Cumucore, Microsoft, NASA, and Titan Space Technologies.
Continue reading: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3656653/hp-finishes-the-ultimate-edge-computing-test-in-space.html

In an intriguing trending session at RIMS 2022, Chubb leaders shared the stage with Waymo and Prologis executives to talk about the Internet of Things (IoT) and its power to disrupt traditional risk management.
IoT as an Insurance Tool
As a technology, IoT is growing rapidly.
Use cases abound, from cloud computing to connected technologies and digital data.
IoT technology — embedding digital sensors in physical objects — complements risk management and risk mitigation services, making it an important investment for insurers. Insurance companies have to be able to predict risk with as much accuracy as possible, and IoT sensors are a game-changer when it comes to this.
During the pandemic, IoT sensors took off and enjoyed a surge in popularity.
Because the pandemic shutdown many businesses, IoT sensors became the eyes and ears to watch over the newly-vacant buildings. If one of the building’s systems failed, the IoT sensor would pick it up and notify someone. And the sensors are continually tracking and recording data, and data is key to insurance companies.
Continue reading: https://riskandinsurance.com/how-iot-can-play-a-risk-mitigation-role-and-not-just-be-a-security-headache/

This is a good time to be excited about wireless technology that doesn’t require batteries. As a flush of recent news proves, energy-harvesting technology is poised to move from pilot applications to scaled out use in the real world in the coming year.
If we want to deploy trillions of connected sensors, we have to dump batteries. After all, building batteries for the IoT is limiting: They require chemicals to manufacture, people to change them, and are ultimately a toxic form of waste inside an obsolete product. Thankfully, several startups are now reaching production deployments of their technology, proving that energy harvesting is possible while providing architectures to make it work.

This sensor from Everactive is part of a steam trap monitoring service that runs using harvested energy. Image courtesy of Everactive.
First up is 10-year-old Everactive (formerly known as PsiKick), which has built a system of sensors that harvest their own energy to track vibration or temperature changes. It recently placed those sensors in 12 Anheuser-Busch breweries, on steam traps used for making beer. The sensors use the heat generated by the steam to monitor how well the steam traps are performing.
It’s the largest deployment of Everactive’s sensors to date, and while the beer maker has only put the sensors on a quarter of its steam traps, doing so has already helped it save 7,561 tons of carbon. The amount of energy saved is about 1.2% of its overall energy use, but every little bit helps.
Notably, the reason this application became a real-world use case was because Everactive’s sensors don’t require ongoing battery changes. According to Barkley Edison, a steam systems subject matter expert with Anheuser-Busch, the brewer spent the last 10 years searching for a steam trap-monitoring product before finding Everactive’s sensors. In a case study for Everactive, he said it can cost $500-$1,000 to replace a single battery, and since a single plant may have hundreds of steam traps, those costs are untenable.
Everactive’s sensors are now deployed in production environments at scale, but other energy-harvesting sensor makers are still gearing up for scale. Among them is Wiliot, which this week announced a partnership program that will bring its energy-harvesting, stamp-sized Bluetooth tags to more industries. The move is part of an overall shift in strategy for Wiliot, from selling its tags to letting other companies manufacture and sell them. Wiliot, meanwhile, now makes money selling cloud services to connect the tags.
Continue reading: https://staceyoniot.com/the-battery-free-iot-revolution-is-here/

The biggest stories in IoT continue to be the proliferation of devices and use cases and the need for better architectures at the enterprise level. But the world of IoT networking is also seeing noteworthy changes. The biggest networking changes affecting the future of IoT are zero-trust networking, the evolution of wireless technology and the rise of pop-up operations.
IoT and zero trust

IoT devices often do not have a full, general-purpose OS under the hood. So, they cannot run endpoint protection programs or a zero-trust network agent, such as a software-defined perimeter client. They may not be able to protect themselves from hostile network traffic at all, beyond being told what IP address management communications should be coming from and on what ports.
To resolve this, IT organizations take a variety of approaches. Once upon a time, a fully separate physical network might have been the norm. Most organizations shifted to separate virtual LANs (VLANs) for isolating specific classes of devices.
Organizations taking a zero-trust approach, though, do not rely on logical segmentation by VLAN alone. They are inserting policy enforcement points into the architecture. For example, a device or many devices of a specific class can sit behind zero-trust gateways, which control all communication.
As IoT platforms evolve and standardize -- and zero-trust vendors refine their focus -- enterprises can expect to see new devices support some classes of zero-trust client. For example, vendors are working on extending application container platforms to the IoT space, which would enable running a containerized zero-trust client to manage communications for the device.


IoT and the wireless WAN
Nemertes Research has seen mounting interest in deploying wireless technology -- either 4G or 5G -- for WAN connectivity. Most organizations with a WAN have at least one location using wireless for WAN in some capacity, most often as failover or backup connectivity in the event of wired link failures.
Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked the rapid spread of wireless WAN (WWAN), in part because many organizations had to extend their WAN to at least a few home offices. Also important, though, has been the increase in speed and reliability of cellular data networks. Couple that with declining wireless data prices and the high costs for legacy low-bandwidth wired connectivity -- T1 as a prime example -- and organizations can make a strong case for switching to WWAN.
Continue reading: https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/tip/Zero-trust-wireless-WAN-affect-the-future-of-IoT-networking

For anyone who enjoys any of Oregon’s state parks or the coast, this is important.
You have until 5 p.m. Friday, April 15, to offer your opinion on new rules regulating drones at our state’s most cherished and iconic geographic sites.
In 2021, with the guidance and assistance of Kenji Sugahara, CEO and president of Drones Service Providers Alliance, an advocacy organization for “around 20,000 commercial drone users,” the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department secured legislation (SB 109) to create new rules governing drone use in state parks.
Sugahara and Chris Havel, the department’s assistant director, told legislators that the bill was needed because of increased conflicts between drone users, the public, and wildlife.
But in a strange twist, the proposed rules could put even more drones in the air with even less ability to inform, regulate, or enforce laws that could minimize conflict.
Under these rules, recreational drone operators could launch their unmanned craft from anywhere in a state park that is not designated otherwise. No permit, no education, no oversight is required.
The “prohibition zones” described in the rule would be designated sometime in the future for each of the 280 parks, and include campgrounds and possibly areas of particular scenic, cultural, or wildlife sensitivity.
But prohibition zones do not mean drones can’t fly over or around these particular areas. Havel says once in the air, the FAA has jurisdiction. He said that  even if areas such as bird nesting sites are protected by other laws, it is difficult to find local offending operators. Basically, say critics of the new rule, if a drone can launch most anywhere, then they will be able to fly most anywhere.
And that is just what drone operators are aiming for.
Across the country drone operators are working to free up airspace in places traditionally considered off limits to their fast-flying cameras.
Sugahara says Oregon has an opportunity to be “a national model” for widespread access to natural areas. He hopes if Oregon relaxes its rules, states like Colorado that now outlaw drones in most state parks will follow suit.
Sugahara thinks eventually, as technology makes drones quieter and easier to track and identify, drones will be so common they will be just a normal part of our landscape.
Sugahara was one of two private drone representatives on the Parks and Recreation Department’s rulemaking advisory committee. That committee met twice, once in November and once in January.
Continue reading: https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/04/11/as-drones-proliferate-oregon-parks-agency-is-considering-new-rules/

It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, fields. Nationally, in 2019, women made up 48% of the workforce, but just 27% of STEM workers. California does slightly better than the nation. San Francisco, San Jose, and Fremont all rank among the top five highest cities for women in these fields. But respectively, women still only make up 27.9%, 25.8%, and 25.7% of STEM roles filled by women in those cities.
Why is a state that often leads the nation in change not doing any better in employing women in science and technology fields? What’s at the core of the issue, and what can educators do to help change things?
Only 30% of students taking computer science courses in California high schools are female. Yet, females make up 49% of California high school students.
To change this, California must close the exposure and bias gaps and do a better job of giving female students proof of their stem capabilities.
Why aren’t there more female students taking STEM courses?
The answer is exposure and bias. Girls tend to be stigmatized from an early age and steered away from pursuing STEM fields or into pursuing only select fields — for example being a nurse instead of a doctor or a dental assistant instead of a dentist. Female students also too often don’t see women teaching STEM classes or working in STEM careers. They don’t see that woman can — and do — perform and even excel in these careers.
Continue reading: https://edsource.org/2022/increasing-female-representation-in-stem-careers-starts-with-exposure/670097

Many think that women in tech are all millennials who’re relatively new to the game but industry veteran and partner at IBM, Janelle Delaney, has been killing it in the tech world for decades.
Delaney has seen many changes in her time in tech. At uni, she did her assignments on a typewriter and was thrilled when PCs came to the office for the first time. 
She’s risen through the ranks at IBM over several decades – taking on a plethora of jobs that have led her to her position where she’s responsible for the quality of IBM’s projects and growing project management capability across the Asia Pacific region.
With the 2022 B&T Women Leading Tech Awards fast approaching – of which IBM is one of the many valued sponsors – we spoke with Delaney about the importance of supporting women in their career journeys, increasing knowledge of tech careers, and being in the driver’s seat when it comes to your own career growth.
B&T: Why is it so important to support Women Leading Tech (WLT)?
Diversity is absolutely essential for our business performance at IBM and obviously for all businesses. Diversity of thinking helps us provide better outcomes for our clients and at IBM we focus on inclusivity meaning that all voices and all views should be considered. For IBM, the Women Leading Tech awards are important as a way to celebrate and highlight the capability and talent that we have and using it as a forum to identify role models to help inspire our future generations of women to head into tech, because the industry certainly needs more women for business success.
Continue reading: https://www.bandt.com.au/women-leading-tech-ibms-janelle-delaney-talks-industry-change-over-the-past-few-decades/

NFTs and digital asset ownership are increasingly becoming attractive to enterprises and people alike as a result of the introduction of blockchain technology and Web3. Blockchain technology has removed the need for businesses to depend on third-party distributors to reach their customers, allowing them to skip this phase in the conventional business model.
The literary world is an excellent illustration of this. Large-scale novel collections like Harry Potter required time to penetrate the market and ultimately include consumer-facing items beyond book sales. In the age of NFTs and Web3, individual artists may bypass the middleman and become their own distribution channel, hence creating additional opportunities for employment inside the company as a whole.
Expansion of art as well as employment creation: Blockchain technology
Writers may now construct a world class team of different people who are paid properly and further rewarded depending on the success of the project thanks to this new vertical integration approach. For historically disadvantaged voices, the metaverse provides significant business benefits. I am a BIPOC/LGBT creative.
Continue reading: https://lvhspiratepress.org/web3-and-blockchain-technology-how-digital-asset-ownership-is-reshaping-the-economic-paradigm/

While the price of these cryptocurrencies skyrocketed to new heights in 2017 and 2018, bringing huge profits to those who got in early, especially for those who invested in Bitcoin (click here for more information), there are still plenty of other cryptocurrencies out there, so it’s not too late to invest. As such, it’s no surprise that many investors are thinking about investing in cryptocurrency. If you’re thinking about investing in cryptocurrency, or if you just want to know more about it, check out these five reasons why you should invest in cryptocurrency, whether you are a beginner or an experienced investor.
5 Reasons to Invest in Cryptocurrency
1) The main currency - Bitcoin
The most obvious reason why you should invest in cryptocurrencies is the success of its main currency, Bitcoin. You should buy bitcoin because its value has increased over time, and it will probably continue to increase, and it has made numerous people incredibly rich. When you first look at a graph of bitcoin’s price history, it looks pretty random. But big picture, bitcoin has been on an upswing since late 2012 when it was worth less than $10 per coin. The trend may not continue indefinitely—there are plenty of forces that could slow down or stop bitcoin’s growth—but it’s difficult to argue that there’s a much better investment opportunity out there than cryptocurrencies right now.
Continue reading: https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/5-reasons-you-should-invest-in-cryptocurrency/g0b9v1b

Today, you can find many examples on the net when cryptocurrency assets were hacked, and all the money floated into the hands of attackers. There are more and more different tricks that scammers use to steal your money every day. However, there are a few tips to help you protect your assets. The crypto license in Lithuania is a clear signal that the crypto exchange or wallet is legal and, therefore, can be trusted.
What are the most common scams?
Every day scammers come up with new ways to steal your money. Among the most common today are:

• Fake sites;
• Fraud by email;
• Fraud in social networks;
• Fake applications;
• Extortion;
• Tech support scam and more.

Sometimes it is pretty challenging to determine where a conscientious service representative is and where a fraudster is. You must always adhere to the rules of computer literacy and check all partners.
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How to Keep Your Crypto Safe? 10 Security Tips
ROHAN MATHAWANAPRIL 11, 2022
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Today, you can find many examples on the net when cryptocurrency assets were hacked, and all the money floated into the hands of attackers. There are more and more different tricks that scammers use to steal your money every day. However, there are a few tips to help you protect your assets. The crypto license in Lithuania is a clear signal that the crypto exchange or wallet is legal and, therefore, can be trusted.

What are the most common scams?
Every day scammers come up with new ways to steal your money. Among the most common today are:

• Fake sites;
• Fraud by email;
• Fraud in social networks;
• Fake applications;
• Extortion;
• Tech support scam and more.

Sometimes it is pretty challenging to determine where a conscientious service representative is and where a fraudster is. You must always adhere to the rules of computer literacy and check all partners.
10 tips to protect your crypto assets
We offer 10 handy tips that are as simple as possible to apply but allow you to protect your assets reliably.
1. Store your assets in a cold storage wallet
At the moment, the developers have not come up with anything more reliable than cold wallets. The point is that to steal money, an attacker must have physical access to the media. It is impossible to hack it via the Internet or Bluetooth.
Continue reading: https://techstory.in/how-to-keep-your-crypto-safe-10-security-tips/