Over a decade ago, the birth of Bitcoin sparked a revolution in the digital world — and just last year, the number of active cryptocurrencies jumped from roughly 1,600 to over 3,000 worldwide.Cryptocurrencies have now evolved past simple digital currencies, offering solutions to meet the complex needs of modern financial markets.Today’s graphic from Abra visualizes the complex, ever-evolving...

The Fintech100 highlights truly innovative companies, creating products and services at the juncture of technology and financial services who are seeking to disrupt the existing processes and products that dominate the marketplace, with fintech companies from 29 countries featuring in this year’s list.The Fintech100 is divided into two sublists: (1) the ‘Top 50’ established fintech firms aro...

Can social awareness improve autonomous cars’ road robustness? That’s what a team of researchers at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory set out to discover in a recent study. They built a system that classifies the behavior of other drivers with respect to their selfishness — in other words, whether drivers are less likely to act altruistically toward other cars. In t...

In the wake of the smartphone and tablet boom, many experts predicted wearable devices to be the next big thing in consumer technology. And to a certain degree they were right: global smartwatch shipments more than doubled since 2015 and fitness tracking armbands are as popular as they are affordable.While the wearables boom has so far largely been limited to wrist-worn devices, with smartwatch...

Kengo kuma has collaborated with sportswear brand asics to offer a new take on its metaride AMU silhouette. the sneaker, which echos the architects signature style, features an upper constructed of a white performance knit layered with interwoven synthetic strips. It’s crisscrossing pattern was inspired by a traditional japanese bamboo crafting technique known as ‘yatara knitting’.Kuma‘s fi...

It’s hard to believe now, but the very first Singles Day in 2009 generated only about $7 million for Chinese mega-retailer Alibaba. No one could have guessed then that ten years later the 24-hour shopping event would see that sales figure surge to an all-time record of $38.4 billion, an unbelievable multiple of 5,471.But that’s exactly what happened this past Monday when millions of eager Chi...

Here’s something you probably didn’t know. The air you’re breathing indoors is as much as 10 times more contaminated than the air you breathe outdoors. Yes, there’s smoke and dust from cars in the air outdoors, but they form a mere fraction of a fraction of the contaminants in a massive body of air that’s constantly also being purified by the UV rays of the sun, and by the greenery around...

The airport is set to welcome an expected one million visitors by 2030 to this area of stunning natural beauty. The terminal building has been inspired by the forms of the desert, the green oasis and the sea, and will remove the usual hassle associated with travel by providing a tranquil and memorable experience for passengers from the moment they arrive.Gerard Evenden, Head of Studio, Foster +...

While the Internet as we know it didn’t come into being until the 1990s, did you know the story of WiFi started decades earlier? The origins of the internet can be traced back to 1929 with Nikola Tesla’s World Wireless System.Additionally, over the years, concepts like ARPANET, TCP/IP and the World Wide Web helped laid the foundation of the Internet as we know it today.Along the way, the hist...