By andrea bianconi The uncertainties surrounding the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy are gripping both the people and the markets with fear. A global recession is now the best case outcome also for JP Morgan while Goldman Sachs foresees the possibility of a second great depression.Read the full story By Scarlett Brown In 2019, cryptocurrency-related fraud and theft have resulted in a loss of around $4.4 billion. Among all crypto fraud and theft incidents in recent years, the most common way used by hackers was to find security errors in the cryptocurrency wallet of their target users. Read the full story By nwthomas (This article is part of an ongoing series on technical and soft skills from Nathan Thomas, a full stack software engineer working in San Francisco building really cool stuff. He previously worked and attended Lambda School. Click here for the previous article in the series, a piece called “Please Explain Closures!”)Read the full story By Vishant Batta Ever wondered if our phone can detect the “Hey Siri!” command anytime and interpret it, is it recording our daily life conversations too?Read the full story By James N COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many people to work from home. How do I remain productive at home?Read the full story By Dmitry Paranyushkin How did we let the algorithms take over our lives?Read the full story By Nelson In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are taking measures that, together with a general panic, weaken industry and financial markets. As in other areas, the largest conferences in the crypto industry are cancelled and projects are frozen. Bitcoin as the first and foremost cryptocurrency has also suffered from economic shocks, but what will happen next? Read the full story By Yash Jejani There have been very few crises as global as Corona. At the time of writing this, it had affected more than 177 countries and claimed more than 32,900 lives. Some experts say we might be able to get rid of it by the summers of this year but far more believe that there’s no respite from it until a vaccine is proven successful. Read the full story By COVID-19 Photo Credit, https://nextstrain.org/ncovRead the full story By Erik P.M. Vermeulen “Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” — Jonathan Safran FoerRead the full story By Gabor Petnehazi Here at TimeNet, we’re building a large time series database with the primary aim of benefitting society through access to data. In this post we’ll study different time series representing both the true, and the perceived spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Daily COVID-19 numbers are currently available on TimeNet.cloud for many countries. We’re expanding these datasets with further variables measuring how we (people) perceive the significance of the pandemic. We use stock market movements and internet search trends to quantify the virus’s perceived spread.Read the full story |
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