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Technicity

Keeping you up to date & empowered within the fields of Technology, Finance, Science & Space.


This Online black marketplace is selling your digital identity

7 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Beware of the ever-evolving scary side of the Dark Web.   Cybersecurity has become an ever more important issue for more than 4 billion netizens. As more of us spend an increasing amount of time online, safeguarding ones’ digital identity from the ne...

What is a Dusting attack & how can you prevent it?

7 Jan 2020 3 minute read 8 comments FKlivestolearn

A tweet from one of the largest Crypto exchanges Binance recently announced that the fourth largest Alt.coin may have been a target of a dusting attack. It went on to link a transaction of (0.00000546 LTC) sent to 50 addresses as being part of the at...

A New Approach may find Exoplanets even more habitable than Earth

7 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

The theory of us being unique in Cosmos might soon get challenged   The search for exoplanets has been going for almost three decades — The breakthrough came in 1992 when radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery o...

What is WiFi 6 & What can it do to improve your Online experience?

7 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

A new LAN connectivity standard that will match the jump we are making from 4G to 5G in wireless connectivity   It’s just been over a couple of decades and we can’t imagine a life without the Internet. The urge to stay connected all the time has been...

Fintechs are building the Banks of the Future

7 Jan 2020 4 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Consumer-centric Fintech startups have added 200M+ accounts while raising $7.6B in equity over the past decade   Arecent report from the CB Insights sheds further light on how the global landscape of Fintechs has evolved over the past few years....

What is the ‘oracle problem’ & how does Chainlink solve it?

6 Jan 2020 3 minute read 1 comment FKlivestolearn

This Middleware solution is being backed by Google to resolve the Smart Contract problem Cryptoverse is usually buzzing with new words which are usually difficult to decipher for a non-technical person. Even somebody like me, who is a little more fam...

The Age of Transcendence - How can Technology make you Live forever?

6 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Hollywood movies have always been good at providing a glimpse into the future — be it space travel, advanced scientific discoveries or futuristic technologies shaping our society as a whole. One such movie is “Transcendence” (2014) — which is based o...

Deepfakes are becoming a bigger issue

6 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Efforts by the Big techs are in full swing to create deepfake detection tools but will they succeed?   Synthetic media generated by AI and represents another dark side of technology and the issue. A deepfake is created by pitting two computer program...

The Risks & Drawbacks of the current Global Financial System

6 Jan 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

You are bound to hear two very different opinions about the current global financial system depending on who you ask, a person with a good job, nice house & a stable income living somewhere in the Western hemisphere or a small farmer living in the re...

What is “Bitcoin halving” & its potential of powering an extended bull run into 2020–21?

6 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Bitcoin halving sounds like a complex phenomenon at first reading, but it simply a process of reducing the mining rewards to half, done to maintain the supply of Bitcoin (21 million). More details on this later but first let’s talk about the price ac...