UPDATE 8/26: With less than 20 days in the campaign, we’ve upped the ante! The grand prize now includes an official movie poster, and we’ve added two second-place prizes: a digital copy of the soundtrack, and an official movie poster. We’ve also added more ways to enter and win. You can now enter five different ways for a total of 14 possible entries per day! If you checked out the Kickstarter for my upcoming feature film project Child (if you didn’t, well, that just makes me sad…), you might...

Hello, beloved readers! There’s 14 days left in the Kickstarter campaign for my first feature, and here’s what you need to know… Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing funding platform; if we don’t reach our goal of $5,000 by midnight on September 13th, we won’t receive any funds. The funds from the Kickstarter will be used to fly Claudia Wells (Back to the Future)and Christopher Showerman (Supergirl) in from LA to star in the film, as well as pay for hiring Dan Ayers as our DP. Having these two...

We’ve all heard the horrifying stories of cryptocurrency investors losing virtually all of their savings due to hackers, or even rogue or incompetent crypto exchange employees. Essentially, any crypto funds that you have in an online storage space is at threat. That could be with an exchange or in an online wallet. The general rule of thumb is that such methods are fine for smaller amounts of crypto that you use for regular trading, but when you find yourself with a substantial amount of...

A system designed for patents on physical inventions has been sorely outdated for well over a decade. Blockchain promises to lead to a solution for the stifling patent thicket. The landscape of software R&D has changed dramatically in recent years, as large companies continue to swallow patent portfolios on the free market and intellectual property increasingly becomes an end, not a means. The vast overlap that exists between software patents means that this now makes good business sense. But...

It seems prescient that the World Economic Forum in 2011, hosted in Geneva, Switzerland, was already talking about personal data as an emerging asset class. Blockchain was not yet a household name - if it is even now - and only in the past three or so years has the technology really gained public profile. What was most firmly highlighted in the report on personal data coming out of the summit was this: firms, governments, and researchers already collect and analyse data on a massive scale and...