Innovation and Research

9+ hour, 26+ min ago   (27+ words) Most technological revolutions arrive with plenty of noise. The internet came with buzzing modems and …...

16+ hour, 10+ min ago   (795+ words) A team of cryptographers in China has unveiled the first publicly verifiable encryption scheme capable of withstanding the most aggressive class of attacks against encrypted cloud backups, a breakthrough that could reshape how organizations prove the integrity of duplicated data…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (650+ words) "This is a growing suite of enterprise-grade digital employees enabling finance team members to spend their time focusing on growth," said Jeremy Almond, co-founder and CEO of Paystand. "These agents are not AI bolted onto old payment infrastructure. They execute…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1149+ words) Metrice is a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) mesh networking protocol engineered with zero external npm dependencies (Zero-Dependency), running natively on Node.js core libraries (node:crypto, node:net, node:dgram, node:sqlite, node:dns). It features quantum-resistant cryptography (Post-Quantum Cryptography) and a…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1243+ words) XDC's Quincy Jones, Algorand's Joseph Cecala, and HashPack's Fil on institutions, AC2, post-quantum accounts, and why adoption waits on behavior. Genfinity’s cross-chain builder spotlight ran as a single episode in late August 2026. Host Tate sat down with ecosystem leads from XDC,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (828+ words) Electronic voting promises convenience, speed and easier participation, but it carries a fundamental problem: someone or something normally has to be trusted with the ballots. Two independent physics experiments have now demonstrated another possibility. Instead of trusting a central server…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (377+ words) Matt Broughton 3 hours ago Business News, Publishing, Retail This is a press release posted alongside our usual editorial content. VaultN, the infrastructure trusted by the games industry’s leading publishers and retailers to orchestrate digital distribution at scale, announces the launch…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (692+ words) Quantum entanglement, the eerie link that binds the fates of particles regardless of distance, has long been the province of elaborate laboratory setups with mirrors on tables and beams snaking through meters of free space....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (336+ words) Wearable sensors need to remain soft and conductive as the body moves, but cold weather presents a basic materials problem. Many flexible sensors use water-rich hydrogels, and when that water freezes, the material can become stiff and lose the ionic…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (406+ words) Banks have spent the past several years asking whether artificial intelligence can make better decisions. The more important question is becoming whether their infrastructure can execute those decisions. While 52% of banks have piloted agentic AI, just 16% have fully deployed production…...