Over the last few years, the buzz about blockchains has gone up immensely. In 2015, banks across the globe had invested around $75 million on the technology. By the end of 2019, that figure will have jumped to $400 million – clearly underlying the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto’s (whoever he or it or… Read More »
The financial services sector has been the earliest, and one of the biggest, adopters of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) – more popularly known as blockchain technology. Introduced in 2008 by a little-known person/team/entity named Satoshi Nakamoto, blockchains have grown rapidly in recent years – keeping pace with the burgeoning popularity of cryptocurrencies.… Read More »
In the last five years or so, the total volume of investments on the agricultural sector has grown by a massive ~80%. According to experts, precision agriculture (the technique of optimizing existing inputs and fertilizers, tillage tools, fields and crops, for the purpose of improved control and measurement of farm yields) has the… Read More »
The degree of mechanization in agriculture is going up rapidly. At the turn of the century, none of the 525 million farms across the world had sensor technology (or, for that matter, IoT in any other form). Cut to 2025, and we will witness more than 620 million sensors being used (considering the… Read More »
Among the many factors that have potentially damaging effects on agricultural outputs worldwide, and consequently on farmers, the issue of climate change (CC) has got to be the most serious. Defined as ‘identifiable changes in prevailing climate (statistically testable) that persist over extended periods of time, usually decades’, CC causes fluctuations in temperature levels, deterioration… Read More »
The world has close to 7.53 billion people at present. A recent study found that, on average, 33% of the global population suffers from water scarcity in some form or the other. By 2030, this figure is likely to rise to 50% – clearly underlining the alarming rate at which the problem of water… Read More »
For proper growth, crops require a reliable medium that would be responsible for capturing and storing the essential plant nutrients. In traditional agriculture, this role is performed by soil. However, the rapid emergence of hydroponic farming over the last couple of years or so has somewhat diminished the importance of soil in agriculture… Read More »
(This GUEST POST has been contributed by Colin Cieloha, North American Territory Manager at Skilled.co)
At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC; 5-9 June), Apple announced two new frameworks – an augmented reality (AR) developer kit named ARKit, and a machine learning API called Core ML. The frameworks will be among the key features of iOS 11 (the third beta was released earlier this month) – the latest version of… Read More »
(This post was originally published as a press release over here) In a recent exclusive interview, noted app evangelist Hussain Fakhruddin – the CEO of Teksmobile (Australia| India| Sweden| USA) – reflected on his role as a coach and a motivator for his colleagues over the years. The startup recently completed 11 years of… Read More »