Hermosa Beach, CA, April 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (via Blockchain Wire) Fetch.ai Alpha Sigma Capital Research initiated coverage on Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab, which is building a decentralized machine learning platform based on a distributed ledger, that enables secure sharing, connection, and transactions based on any data globally. On this network a series of software agents called autonomous economic agents, acting independently of user input, represent and autonomously execute actions on behalf of their owners to achieve a prescribed goal. These autonomous economic agents work to provide an optimized service across a variety of ecosystems, to the benefit of both suppliers and consumers. This system has wide potential in many areas.

Jefferson Graham talks to consumers about potential uses for having a microchip embedded in your body on #TalkingTech. Charlene Li wants to be chipped. "I am so ready," says the long-time author and principal analyst for the Altimeter Group. She's referring to having a microchip embedded in her body, one that would do many of the things her smartphone could do now. This week science fiction came to the heartland when a small Wisconsin company announced that it would begin implanting microchips into employees hands.

USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham asks people about getting their news on Snapchat. We've been watching the NBC News Stay Tuned newscast, which is tailored for the young people who use Snapchat, and it's quite different from the NBC Nightly News we've been watching on network TV for years. This is a good thing. Savannah Sellers is the co-host of NBC's new Stay Tuned news show for Snapchat (Photo: Snapchat) If we want to get the next generation watching news, this could be the way to do it. Hire two young hosts, put them in hip attire, use language that assumes you know very little ("O.J. Simpson became famous for pushing yards on a football field") have fast-moving graphics, quick cuts and split screens, eliminate lengthy sound bites and tell young folks the essence of the story.