To support MIT Technology Review’s journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. DeFi—an idea similar to smart contracts—is all about transparency and open-source code as an ideology. Unfortunately, in practice that too often means rickety multimillion-dollar projects held together with tape and gum. “There are a few things that make DeFi more vulnerable to hacking,” Grauer […]

Meanwhile, young financial services companies were coming to market with innovative products and services and NAB was finding it difficult to compete. “Many customers today are expecting an Amazon experience, a Google experience, a Meta experience, but we were still operating in the 1990s,” says Day. “We stood back, and we looked at it, and […]

5G-powered digitization promises to accelerate connectivity-led transformation in an increasingly hyperconnected world, ushering in a new range of possibilities for both individuals and enterprises. The transformative approach of 5G is pushing for an open standards, disaggregated, and cloud and edge-based approach for building networks. Source: MIT Technology Review

Most aging clocks estimate a person’s biological age based on patterns of epigenetic markers—specifically, chemical tags called methyl groups that are layered onto DNA and affect how genes are expressed. The pattern of this methylation across thousands of sites on DNA seems to change as we age, although it’s not clear why. Some clocks promise […]

The future of transactional media might look something like its past. An industry consultant once told me that “in the future cash will be the ‘c word,’ not something nice people use.” Indeed, the future is likely to be cash-light rather than fully cashless. Those relegated to cash-only status will transact on unequal terms. Today, […]

As manufacturers increase investments in digital technologies to meet the demands of the changing environment, there is a realization that technology must be coupled with an empowered workforce to ensure the successful execution of an organization’s strategy.  Click here to continue. Source: MIT Technology Review

Watch Christian Bayer, global head of ERP, data and analytics platforms, Syngenta, in conversation with Dinesh Rao, EVP and global head of enterprise package application services, Infosys, in a series that discusses a cloud-first strategy for digital farming, Agile and DevOps, and employee wellbeing. Source: MIT Technology Review

Data privacy and security must be built into the data, technology, and governance mechanisms underpinning a mergers and acquisitions deal, rather than being an afterthought. This can promote increased customer confidence, improved regulatory approval rates, and a healthy balance sheet. Source: MIT Technology Review