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CoinMarketCap announced that it will launch two cryptocurrency benchmark indices on Nasdaq Global Index Data Service, Bloomberg Terminal, Thomson Reuters Eikon and Börse Stuttgart. The news was revealed in a post on the crypto data firm’s blog, published on March 20.The two indices are calculated and administered by German index provider Solactive, the post notes.Per…

The US Attorney’s Office said Ryan Salame made a “demonstrably false” allegation by claiming prosecutors did not intend to continue investigating his partner, Michelle Bond.

The United States Department of Energy (DOE), is granting nearly $200,000 to blockchain company TFA Labs to help protect the national power grid.Blockchain to improve grid reliability and resilienceOn July 12, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the funds. The overall objectives of the grant proposed to design a system to improve grid reliability and…

Malaysia will enact regulations for cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in Q1 2019, local English-language news media outlet The Star reported Nov. 28.The publication quoted finance minister Lim Guan Eng, who said Wednesday said the country’s regulator, the Securities Commission (SC), had updated him with a timeframe for the new rules.The move will form…

Enterprise blockchain software firm R3 has announced the launch of its Corda Network, which will be operated and overseen by a newly created not-for-profit organization, the Corda Network Foundation. The announcement was made in an R3 press release published on Jan. 16.R3 has to date reportedly gathered over 300 partners from across multiple industries —…

The new Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator is designed for AI tasks and generative AI and was debuted in tandem with its new Azure Cobalt CPU to compute cloud workloads. 313 Total views 9 Total shares The Big Tech giant Microsoft announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the Microsoft Azure Maia