Day: August 15, 2017

The Ukrainian government is launching a pilot scheme to tell property to foreign investors on the Blockchain.

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Bitcoin prices have fallen below $4,000 hours after hitting a new all-time high.

Throughout last week, during the strong rally of bitcoin, Bitconnect Coin (BCC) gained upward momentum, surpassing the $100 mark for the first time in history and establishing a new all-time high at $115. According to cryptocurrency market data providers including Coinmarketcap, the trading volume of BCC peaked at $10 million, reaching a market cap of … Continue reading Bitconnect Coin (BCC) Hits New All-Time High at $115, as Bitcoin Price Surges

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Advancements made in artificial intelligence are seemingly announced every single week. Earlier this year, Deep Voice 1 was released by Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab. That system was received with considerable enthusiasm and hesitation alike, as it generates synthetic human voices through deep neural networks. (As it happens, the end result is quite creepy.) Now that Deep Voice 2 has been announced, things have taken a dramatic new turn.

Deep Voice 2 Contains Hundreds of Voices

Transforming text to speech in a human-like fashion has proven to be difficult. Even when projects succeed in doing so, the end results are incredibly synthetic and far less professional than we would like. Thanks to solutions such as Deep Voice 1 and Deep Voice 2, that situation is slowly changing for the better. There are some definite benefits to these solutions, even though they may not necessarily become accessible to everyday consumers anytime soon.

The Deep Voice 1 platform generated synthetic human voice through deep neural networks. It did so in real-time, allowing the solution to synthesize audio as fast as it needed to be played. This was a major development for inactive projects like video games, conversational interfaces, and the media industry. Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab took the time to train deep neural networks to learn from vast amounts of data. As a result, it created one of the most comprehensive voice synthesis solutions the world had seen to date.

However, the company has not rested on its laurels. Instead, it has been working hard on improving its Deep Voice solution over the past few months. Over the course of roughly 90 days, the team managed to make their next Deep Voice system far more advanced than their first. Deep Voice 1 provided 20 hours of speech and only one voice from which to choose. Although this was not necessarily a major limitation, companies have to keep moving forward at all times, improving upon existing solutions and scaling the technology.

That is exactly what the company did. Deep Voice 2 now contains hundreds of hours of speech and provides hundreds of voices to choose from as well. It is also more than capable of learning from hundreds of voices and imitating them perfectly. Indeed, it’s pretty creepy to hear a computer utter your voice saying something you’d never said. Deep Voice 2 is capable of learning a new voice in the span of just 30 minutes.

Based on samples provided on the official website, one can hardly tell which voice is human and which is a copy, as the difference between the two is incredibly small. This goes to show that AI technology has come a long way and is advancing at an exceptional pace. Although this is by far one of the creepier developments we have seen (or heard) in recent months, it also represents a major breakthrough for any sector reliant on voice synthesis.

Baidu will not release this project’s source code free of charge, nor does it have to. It would be nice to know if this platform will ever become a consumer-grade product. Technology such as this can have major consequences and powerful use cases, assuming people have a chance to play around with it at some point. Any company working with chat assistants, robotics, or other tools involving some degree of communication would certainly benefit from embracing this technology in the future.

Blockstream says people most in need of bitcoin aren’t getting it because of their lack of internet, but it’s satellite – yes satellite – can help.

Upcoming cryptocurrency conference World Blockchain Forum: Investments and ICOs announces new international speakers and a ‘Pitch your ICO’ showcase to their September 25th/26th lineup. The highly-anticipated event was announced in July and has amassed significant media and community attention. Since then, Keynote has added many heavyweight international speakers to the lineup, including: Eva Kaili, Member … Continue reading World Blockchain Forum add international heavy weights to lineup

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The recent surge in Bitcoin price has caused stock researcher Ronnie Moas to re-evaluate his initial prediction of $5,000 to $7,500

First Decentralized Cybersecurity Token Poised to Add Unprecedented Proof and Assurance of Privacy and Security at the Hardware Level for Billions of Consumer, Business and M2M Transactions

GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS —  August, 15 2017– Rivetz Intl, Inc. (https://rivetzintl.com) today announced it has secured $5.5 million USD (19,000 ETH) in a private presale of its Rivet (RvT) token, a cybersecurity token developed to provide verifiable security controls for cloud authentication, IoT, blockchain, and legacy financial transactions.  The RvT token enables multifactor authentication across devices, to achieve provable security at both the transaction and authentication level. The Rivetz solution uses technology that is already built in to hundreds of millions of mobile devices to assure the keys and transactions can not be altered or stolen by malware infecting the operating system. The token sale will open to the public on August 10, 2017 at 17:00 UTC.

Institutional buyers in the presale, including BnkToTheFuture and Tally Capital, are vocal in their support for Rivetz’s multifactor authentication solution.

“We are very supportive of the goals of Rivetz and happy to add it to our portfolio of tokens,” said Simon Dixon, CEO BnkToTheFuture.com. “Turning our phones into hardware wallets in a way that is scalable will be an important advancement as the world adjust to owning their own digital assets. Rivetz CEO Steven Sprague is a true expert in the field of security, and the perfect leader to bring this innovation in personal security forward.”

“The Rivetz token distribution is a groundbreaking moment in decentralized cybersecurity,” said Matthew Roszak, managing director of Tally Capital and co-founder of Bloq.  “Rivetz provides consumer protections and simplicity that will help blockchain applications achieve their next level of adoption.  This new platform will add a crucial new layer of protection to exchanges, wallet and new tokens to ensure a level of data integrity and identity protection never before available.”

The token sale is led by leading crowdfunding platform TokenMarket. For more information, visit https://rivetzintl.com. The team is available to answer questions on  Slack  or Telegram

About Rivetz

Rivetz is focused on solving problems associated with consumer and machine-to-machine digital transactions. Rivetz technology and services aim to provide a safer and easier-to-use model for all users to protect their digital assets using hardware-based trusted execution technology. The device aims to play a critical role in automating security and enabling the controls that users need to benefit from modern services. Rivetz leverages state-of-the-art cybersecurity tools to develop a modern model for users and their devices to interact with services on the Internet. For more information, visit www.rivetz.com

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Disclaimer: This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of any The Merkle employees. This is not investment or trading advice, always do your own independent research.

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