Microsoft Unveils Project Manifest, A Plan For Blockchain Product Tracking
Technology originally developed to help NASA communicate with deep space probes now lies at the heart of a new Microsoft blockchain project that would track products as they move around the world. But more than that, Microsoft's Project Manifest, unveiled today, could eventually help ensure the origin of the products used to create goods and the labor used to build them conform to a company’s ethical standards. Built via an initial partnership with Los Angeles-based Mojix, Project Manifest leverages the startup's widely used Internet of Things (IoT) platform, which is currently being....
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