Author: Alice Bonasio
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“Back to the Future of Money” David Birch Talks@Mendeley
Where does the money in a £20 note actually exist? It’s the sort of thing you don’t often think about. Unless, of course you’re an expert like David Birch, whose day job is heading a consultancy specializing in secure electronic transactions, and who’s also just published a book called “Identity is the New Money.” He…
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Crowdfunding to develop healthcare matching technology
A technology platform is helping to match paraplegic patients and those with neurological disabilities with the best healthcare providers available. They now want to use crowdfunding to develop this service even further, and their Indiegogo campaign has already reached over half of their initial $60,000 goal. Here’s their story, which began over 10 years ago……
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Talks@Mendeley – Is Identity the New Money?
Our next Talks@Mendeley is this is fast approaching, on Friday the 18th July at 6:00pm. The speaker this time around is David Birch, whose TED talk “A New Way to Stop Identity Theft” had been watched over 100,000 times. He expands on some of the talk’s themes in his latest book “Identity is the…
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Mendeley moves into the cloud: It’s nice up here!
Last week we took what might seem like a small step, but was in fact a very giant leap by moving mendeley.com into the cloud. Now you might be thinking “Mendeley is already cloud-based, what are you talking about?” It’s true that our users can access their papers, annotations and all other data on any device,…
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