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The U.S. start-up Cryptosat has taken the EPFL developed Drand protocol, the internet’s first production grade, publicly verifiable randomness beacon, into space for an historic experiment. Is space the next frontier for data security here on Earth? Researchers at the U.S. satellite start-up, Cryptosat, think it will be and they have just launched several experiments from the International Space Station (ISS) to test this.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to help collect and process data from industrial Internet of Things d...