Distributed computing

The 16th Insurance Conference (Inco) is taking place on Wednesday as a LiveOn Hybrid Event at the Divani Caravel Hotel (2 Vassileos Alexandrou) in Athens with parallel online streaming through LiveOn.

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Films released by streaming services are more racially representative and more likely to have female leads than those that debut in theatres, a study released on March 30 showed.

Movies destined for the small screen were almost entirely reflective of the U.S. population, the Hollywood Diversity Report said, with majority-minority casts doing especially well with audiences.

Vinyl records continued to translate their retro appeal into a steady resurgence, outselling compact discs last year in terms of units in the United States for the first time since 1987.

Revenues from the sale of physical records jumped 4 percent in 2022 to $1.7 billion, according to the latest report from the Recording Industry Association of America released on March 9.

An army of computer programmers scattered across the globe is set to attempt one of the biggest software upgrades the crypto sector has ever seen this week to reduce its environmentally unfriendly energy consumption.    

The idea of spending millions on non-existent land may sound ludicrous - but feverish predictions of a virtual reality future are pushing investors to bet big on digital real estate.

Today, everything is offered as NFT, and the figures that are turning on the market are incredible, but the question is whether this trend will continue.

Is NFT (non-fungible tokens) just a passing internet trend, a potential bubble that will inflate and make worthless millions of dollars invested in it, or will we buy and own more and more digital products in this way in the future?

After spending several years in London, Greek singer-songwriter Irene Skylakaki has come back home armed with a new album, "Souvenir." To celebrate the holidays with her fans and showcase some of her new material, the pop artist will be live-streaming a session live from the Poreia Theater on December 27, starting at 7 p.m. The viewing fee is 7 euros.

Seven southern European Union member-states signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday for closer collaboration on emerging technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.

Cyprus aims to be among the first countries to regulate aspects of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Wednesday, addressing the Cyprus Blockchain Summit in Nicosia.

Advantage Austria Non-financial industries are ripe for the Blockchain disruption!