Apple Card
Numerous websites offer comparisons of consumer credit cards. Fees, incentives, terms and conditions, and payment options vary but not much. The Apple Card is going to change the landscape. Apple has completely rethought everything about the credit card. Apple wanted to create a credit card which represents core principles the company believes in including simplicity, […]
Monitoring For a Healthy Heart
A proverb originated in the 1860s in the country of Wales; “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” By the end of the 19th century, the phrase morphed into “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. There is actually some scientific backing to the proverb […]
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
A paper was posted on the Internet by Satoshi Nakamoto in November 2008, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. The paper described a system where Bitcoin, a digital currency, can be used to buy and sell goods and services or to just buy and hold the Bitcoin. Currencies such as the U.S. dollar, the Canadian […]
Robots for Indoor Farming
Farming is not limited to outdoor fields. Indoor farms now represent 2.3 million square feet and growing. Brooklyn, New York based Agrilyst, Inc. predicts expansion of indoor farming will reach 22 million square feet, which amounts to roughly 505 acres of land.[i] Although this represents a very small fraction of the 900 million acres of […]
Twenty-two Years of e-Commerce
A handful of us joined with Tim Berners-Lee to start the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in December 1994. None of us at the time saw the potential for eCommerce. Most of the focus was on techniques for formatting web pages and on various other content related issues. Jim Clark, founder of Netscape, did […]