An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: Despite being championed as a decentralized form of money that puts individuals firmly in control of their own wealth, cryptocurrencies mostly remain the preserve of the super-rich and the super-nerdy. 1,000 Bitcoin wallets currently hold 35.18% of all Bitcoins, for example, and only a select few computer scientists understand the…

…and AI worker quits over killer robot plans Roundup Hello, here’s a quick recap on all the latest AI-related news beyond what we’ve already reported this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Dressed in a Captain Marvel tracksuit, Larson visited a New Jersey movie theater and served fans popcorn. …read more Source:: CNet

These days, you could be forgiven for thinking driving an LCD from a microcontroller is easy. Cheap displays have proliferated, ready to go on breakout boards with controllers already baked in. Load up the right libraries and you’re up and running in a matter of minutes. However, turn your attention to trying to drive a…

Think Game of Thrones, but this one is underground and defends against a far more realistic threat. …read more Source:: CNet

Here’s what it’s like inside the melted down reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. …read more Source:: CNet

Influential analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Samsung is increasing shipments of its new phone by 30 percent. Are US stores seeing this? …read more Source:: ZDNet

Anil Nanduri says it’s cheaper to put cars in the air than under cities in tunnels. …read more Source:: CNet

It should be unveiled in the last quarter of 2019. …read more Source:: CNet

schwit1 shared this article from the Guardian: In response to public pressure and increasing scrutiny over the pay of its warehouse workers, Amazon enacted a $15 minimum wage for all its employees on 1 November, including workers at grocery chain Whole Foods, which it purchased in 2017… But since the wage increase, Whole Food employees…