The spotlight on the distributed ledger space to-date is primarily focused on blockchain . Yet, blockchains come with limitations by design. Consensus mechanisms using proof of work (POW) are by their nature slow, so the community can come to agreement and throw away the blocks they don’t agree on. This design also includes inherent inefficiencies […]
View More Hashgraph wants to give you the benefits of blockchain without the limitationsCategory: api
Hashgraph wants to give you the benefits of blockchain without the limitations
The spotlight on the distributed ledger space to-date is primarily focused on blockchain . Yet, blockchains come with limitations by design. Consensus mechanisms using proof of work (POW) are by their nature slow, so the community can come to agreement and throw away the blocks they don’t agree on. This design also includes inherent inefficiencies […]
View More Hashgraph wants to give you the benefits of blockchain without the limitationsHashgraph wants to give you the benefits of blockchain without the limitations
The spotlight on the distributed ledger space to-date is primarily focused on blockchain . Yet, blockchains come with limitations by design. Consensus mechanisms using proof of work (POW) are by their nature slow, so the community can come to agreement and throw away the blocks they don’t agree on. This design also includes inherent inefficiencies […]
View More Hashgraph wants to give you the benefits of blockchain without the limitationsStride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
The arrival of Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, was probably the company’s biggest launch of 2017. While the company generally allows developers to easily integrate with its products, Stride’s API remained in closed beta for significantly longer than the product itself, which exited beta last September. Today, however, Atlassian is opening the Stride API to all… Read More
View More Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developersInstagram now allows businesses to schedule their posts
Instagram today made a long overdue change to its product that social media managers have wanted for some time – it will allow businesses on Instagram to schedule their posts. Before, there were unofficial means to aid with this – like tools that would send out a push notification to remind you to publish a post at a given time, for example. But no functionality was available in… Read More
View More Instagram now allows businesses to schedule their postsTwitter launches a new enterprise API to power customer service and chatbots
Twitter’s big news this week is its announcement that it’s now enforcing its new policies around hateful content and abuse, but today the company is rolling out something new for developers, as well: an enterprise-level API providing access to real-time activities like tweets, retweets, likes and follows. The addition of the API is part of Twitter’s broader plan to revamp… Read More
View More Twitter launches a new enterprise API to power customer service and chatbotsVeem opens up global payments platform to developers with new API
If you’ve ever tried to do business across borders, you know how painful it can be to send a wire transfer, wait for the payment to clear the bank and pay a set of fees along the way. Veem is a startup trying to simplify all of that for SMBs by providing a platform to ease the international transfer of funds between businesses. Today, it announced it was opening up that capability to… Read More
View More Veem opens up global payments platform to developers with new APIA closer look at the capabilities and risks of iPhone X face mapping
Face ID has already generated a lot of excitement but the switch to a facial biometric does raise privacy concerns — given that the human face is naturally an expression-rich medium which, inevitably, communicates a lot of information about its owner without them necessarily realizing it. Read More
View More A closer look at the capabilities and risks of iPhone X face mapping