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The world of business—led by banks—have overwhelmingly embraced blockchain even while many of them are openly skeptical and/or critical about bitcoin and cryptocurrency It is immensely unfair today to introduce blockchain as the technology behind bitcoin. While it is a fact—and everybody knows it—that it is indeed is the technology that powered the most successful …

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Administrations globally are experimenting how governance and citizen service delivery can be improved using distributed ledger technology Distributed Ledgering Technology (DLT) refers to any system providing an asset database or a ledger that enables a seamless and distributed participation of cross-organization entities. The system ensures that the local copies of the ledger maintained by the …

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Getting started with Yeoman, a scaffolding tool for web apps Yeoman is a scaffolding tool that helps you kick-start new projects and pre-scribes the best practices and tools to help you stay productive. In order to achieve that goal, Yeoman basically provides you with a generator ecosystem that helps to scaffold either a complete project …

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You can read Part 1 from here:- https://devworx.digit.in/etc/actions-google-part-1-1105461.html DESIGN AN APP In the following segments we will attempt to design our own app for the Google Assistant platform. In the spirit of the new year, let us try to keep things light and try to design an application that tells you your fortune in a …

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An example of an Intent would be the EggRecipeFetcherIntent which would have a few sample utterances like: • Ask egginator for an egg recipe. • Ask egginator how to cook my eggs. • Tell egginator to suggest an egg recipe. These utterances simply list a sample of sentences that trigger the EggRecipeFetcherIntent, and do not …

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A guide to get started with Alexa Skills Alexa is a cloud based service provided by Amazon that is at the core of their range of Echo devices. It is capable of translating an ever-expanding number of voice commands into actionable requests that the service can then take action on. There are already a number …

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Creating apps for the Google Assistant GOOGLE HOME Google Home is the latest in a long line of market disrupting products that have come from the path breaking technology company. It is a collection of smart speakers that enable users to use voice commands in order to interact with services through Google’s intelligent personal assistant …

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JAVASCRIPT API OPT-IN OVERLAY When loaded through authedmine.com the JavaScript API will ask the user for consent as soon as miner.start() is called. This is done in a popover window directly on your page. You will not be able to start the miner if the user cancels the opt-in. If the user gives consent, an …

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Could this be the key to an ad free internet? If you are connected to the internet then its most likely that you have already heard about crypto currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. With many Governments and banks across the world legalizing, regulat- ing and accepting multiple Crypto- currencies, the day is not far …

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You can read Part 1 from here:- https://devworx.digit.in/etc/kotlin-one-part-1-1104751.html 3. DEFINING LOCAL VARIABLES: There are two types of variable that you can create in Kotlin. One is Type defined or Type inferred. Note that if you don’t want to define the type of the variable then you have to assign some value to that variable so …

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