Divi Coins wants to make their cryptocurrency as convenient and accessible as possible. The Divi Project is a new crypto company that closed their initial coin sale in November. The new crypto is looking to replace exchanges like Paypal or Venmo.
Geoff McCabe is the Co-founder and CEO at The Divi Project Tim Sanders is the CMO at The Divi Project. The pair joined Cheddar to explain why they think their new cryptocurrency will lead the market. Sanders stresses that as a company, Divi is attentive and responsive to their consumers' needs.
McCabe believes that in the future all cryptocurrencies will be interchangeable and exchanged via digital wallets. So for Divi, the key is to be adopted and trusted by as many people as possible. In terms of future steps, The Divi Project is looking to build out their own blockchain and wallet.
The salad chain known for its reusable bowl program is doubling down on its ambitions for a green 2019. As part of its efforts, Just Salad has appointed Janani Lee as its new chief sustainability officer. She'll lead sustainability initiatives at the salad, sandwich, and smoothie company, which means everything from front-of-house and back-of-house composting projects to ingredient tracking that can help prevent food-borne illnesses.
This year marked the first voyage for Cheddar's weekly series Cheddar Rides, covering the changes happening in transportation and the future of getting from here to there. To celebrate the last episode of its inaugural year, Rides is looking at the road ahead.
If you’re looking to make a move in 2019, you could do worse than some of the cities below. Each one is using technology ー IoT, machine learning, data analysis, autonomy, A.I. ー to remake the way its citizens interact with their surroundings. But a smart city is more than just innovative technology, as Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton, authors of "Smart Cities, Smart Future," told Cheddar. It's about improving lives in concrete, everyday ways.
A study released on Monday found a dramatic increase in vaping among teenagers ー after a second study found that the increasingly popular habit comes with not-insignificant health risks. "Vaping appears to be less harmful than smoking, but then again smoking kills half of the people who do it long-term. So, again, it's a low bar to be safer than smoking," Rachel Becker, a reporter with the Verge, told Cheddar on Monday.
2018 was a year of serious advancement in tech. It brought us more driver-less cars, Bitcoin adoption, and more A.I. But as the year dwindles, we're looking to the future, not the past. As we gaze into Cheddar's Crystal Ball, here are our top five picks for the technology that is most likely to advance even further in 2019.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018.
Clean water advocate and movie heroine Erin Brockovich is raising red flags over the state of the nation's water supply. She told Cheddar that it's time for the public to take notice of a problem they've largely been ignoring. "The issue has always been there ー we just either haven't talked about it or it hasn't been exposed," Brockovich said.
The Impossible Burger earned its Halal certification on Monday from the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America, marking a major milestone on the meat industry disruptor's path to feeding the world. Soon the Impossible Burger will be available in grocery stores, too, for home chefs who want to try their hand at cooking the meatless burger. David Lee, the COO and CFO of Impossible Foods, joined Cheddar to discuss the company's plan to "serve the world."
A.I. robot Sophia is getting a software upgrade, one that will inch her ー and perhaps A.I. ー even closer to humanity. According to her creator, not only will Sophia earn her citizenship, she will reach a level of advancement equal to human beings in roughly five to 10 years.
SpaceX plans to launch an unmanned cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station on Tuesday. But the scientific equipment and experiments aboard the ship are actually meant to improve life on Earth, Ken Shields, chief operating officer for the ISS National Laboratory, told Cheddar. With increasing privatization of the aerospace industry, Shields said space on shuttles to ISS is increasingly in-demand, even if the experiments aboard aren't exactly out-of-this-world.
