It is fascinating to follow the evolution of the second most important cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, Ethereum. Starting from a Bitcoin enthusiast named Vitalik Buterin, who was dissatisfied with the immobility of the system, Ethereum has not only established a strong open-source developer community but has also given…

The data can’t be denied: a country can abandon nuclear power without increasing the consumption of fossil fuels such as coal or gas, and instead rely on renewables. The prophets of doom who claimed nuclear energy would be an indispensable part of the global energy mix were wrong, or, like…

State Farm, the largest insurance company in the United States, has just announced that it will no longer accept new home insurance policies in California, mainly due to the high incidence of fires resulting from the increase in temperatures created by the climate emergency. The company says that the exposure…

Nvidia Corporation was founded 30 Years ago, in April 1993, in Sunnyvale, California, and went public in 1999. One of its founders, Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, a Taiwanese immigrant who came to the United States at the age of nine, is the company’s CEO and president, and owns 3.6% of its…

Avianca passenger Roberto Mata’s knee was injured by a blow from the food trolley. He then sought damages through an attorney, Steven A. Schwartz of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, and when Avianca asked the judge to dismiss the case, that attorney came forward with a ten-page brief citing a half-dozen…

Giphy was founded in February 2013 by two friends after a breakfast conversation about creating a search engine for GIFs that would make conversations on the web more entertaining. To their surprise, it was an overnight success, attracting more than one million users in the first week after its launch. …

Two very interesting pieces of data were reported on Friday that give an an idea about the ongoing energy transformation: according to the International Energy Agency’s forecasts, 2023 will be the first year that will see more investment in solar energy than in oil production, a change that, seen from…

The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) asked me to write an article after Spain took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union. I decided to explore whether Spain had become one of the most anti-technology countries in the 26-member bloc. The article is entitled “Should We Expect…

The right to privacy is a cornerstone of any democracy worth the name. Intercepting telephone conversations requires a court order, and involves the use of relatively sophisticated technology. End-to-end encryption, or E2EE, is a system whereby only direct recipients can read messages. I emphasize the word only because the technology…