


BLOCKCHAIN WEEK HERALDS AN END TO BLOCKCHAIN "BROTOPIA"
If ever there was a question as to whether New York City is the capital of fintech or blockchain, it was answered this week. Through a series of events from May 11 - 17, "Blockchain Week New York City," surprised everyone in attendance with…

THE WOMEN MAKING AI LESS SCARY AND MORE ACCESSIBLE
“I’m close to artificial intelligence (AI) and it scares the hell out of me,” said Elon Musk during HBO's Westworld panel at South by Southwest this year. “It’s capable of vastly more than anyone knows, and the improvement…

ETHICAL AI: IS VR HARASSMENT THE SAME AS WORKPLACE HARASSMENT?
Recently, a woman told her story of being virtually groped in a leading virtual reality (VR) game called QuiVR. When she entered the game’s multi-player mode, a fellow gamer named BigBro442 began to fondle her Avatar. Now the company purposely…

FEMALE FOUNDERS STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO TO REACH VC GENDER EQUALITY
Fortune recently ran an interesting assessment of VC deals by gender and if you’re a glass-half-full person then you’ll be happy to learn that all-women founding teams received $1.9 billion in investment in 2017, which was up from $1.4 billion…

2018 CES HIGHLIGHTS
CES 2018 has now concluded and this year’s event was all about getting smarter - everything from speakers, appliances, robots and home goods are getting extra smart through AI and voice recognition. There were some really exciting innovations…