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Mobile money-saving app Qapital raises $30 million to spend on growth

sudshr47 April 18, 2018

Qapital, one of a slew of mobile applications trying to make it easier for users to save money (and spend it more wisely), has raised $30 million in fresh financing as it expands beyond savings to offer investment advisory services. Since its launch in the U.S. in 2015, Qapital has amassed roughly 420,000 users that […]

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Researchers create a light-based key distribution system for quantum encryption

sudshr47 November 28, 2017

 Researchers at Duke University, OSU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have solved one of the biggest problems with new forms of quantum encryption: quantum key distribution. QKD is the process of distributing keys during a transmission and in a w…

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