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What Is the Metaverse? A High-Tech Plan to Facebookify the World
15.8.2021
Nick Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology.
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that...
Intel Discloses Holding Coinbase Stake in Filing With SEC
14.8.2021
Computer chip manufacturer Intel Corp. has revealed it holds a stake in the leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase. The tech giant purchased the shares worth almost $800,000 after the digital asset trading platform went public earlier this year. Intel Acquires Shares of Crypto Exchange...
Reports suggest that a mainstream tech giant holds shares of Coinbase stock
13.8.2021
End of Q2 holdings for Intel showed a small stack of COIN shares, valuing between $500,000 and $1,000,000 at time of publication
Ethereum alone not enough to disrupt Big Tech: Jack Dorsey
13.8.2021
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is doubling down on his Ether-skepticism by downplaying the network's potential to shake up the world of the social media giants
Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
12.8.2021
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.Read more
British Auction House Christie’s to Auction Cryptopunks, Meebits, Bored Apes NFTs
7.8.2021
The well known luxury auction house Christie’s has announced the company’s first non-fungible token (NFT) art sale in Asia on September 17. According to the announcement, the NFTs will feature Cryptopunks by Larva Labs, Meebits, and Bored Apes. Christie’s Reveals First NFT Auction...
Hot July at Christie’s: Over $93M in NFT sales and Art+Tech Summit 2021
5.8.2021
Christie’s fourth annual Art+Tech Summit was dedicated to discussions of the future of art, collectibles and the world of nonfungible tokens
Multi-Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Goldentree Is Reportedly Adding Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet
1.8.2021
The hedge fund Goldentree, a firm with $41 billion in assets under management (AUM) has reportedly added the leading crypto asset bitcoin to its balance sheet. Unnamed sources detail that the American asset management firm leveraged bitcoin to diversify from traditional debt investment strategies....
Genshin Impact's Official Discord Hit Its Max User Capacity Forcing Devs To Create A Second Server
31.7.2021
I knew Genshin Impact was a popular game. I also knew it had a ton of active and ravenous players who can’t get enough of the free-to-play online RPG. But I had no idea it was so popular that it was pushing Discord to its limits and forcing the devs to start a second server for everyone.Read more
Shanghai Man: Crypto recovers, disasters strike, and China’s crackdown moves to other sectors
30.7.2021
Jak vypadá jízda šinkansenem? Sledujte tu přesnost a high-tech záchody
29.7.2021
Naomi Adachi je napůl Češka, napůl Japonka. Do svého druhého domova jezdí často za rodinou a přáteli a tentokrát s sebou vzala i kameru. Diváky seznámí s krásami Japonska, jeho tradičními zvyky i všedním životem. Od 25. 7. do 8. 8. 2021 bude v Tokiu a ukáže, jak vypadá život v japonské metropoli
Blockchain tech is holding NFTs back because of these three design flaws
27.7.2021
Three design flaws in blockchain tech are holding the NFT sector back — and they need to be tackled for it to reach its full potential
Reddit Chooses to Leverage Arbitrum’s Layer-2 Tech With Community Point ETH-Based Tokens
23.7.2021
On July 22, developers working on the platform Reddit, the social news discussion aggregation forum, revealed that the team was scaling Reddit’s community points program with the Ethereum Layer-2 solution Arbitrum. Currently, Reddit developers are testing the community point tokens on top...
Why Three Tech Behemoths Are Vying to Test Korea’s CBDC
20.7.2021
South Korean tech giants have lodged three bids to become the first private firms ever to pilot the Bank of Korea (BOK)’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototype.
As previously reported, the BOK will pick a winner from three consortiums and solo bids submitted earlier this month...
Bitcoin may have played a role in Tesla's decorrelation from Big Tech
15.7.2021
The 20-day correlation between Tesla stocks and the Nasdaq 100 index has sharply dropped from 0.83 in mid-June to 0.14 as of this week
DOGE attack: Co-founder slams crypto as 'right-wing hyper-capitalist’ tech
15.7.2021
The crypto industry is controlled by a “powerful cartel of wealthy figures” according to Jackson Palmer
Bank of America: Bitcoin Now 3rd Most Crowded Trade After Tech Stocks and ESG in New Fund Manager Survey
15.7.2021
Bank of America’s latest global fund manager survey shows that “long bitcoin” is now the third most crowded trade. The most crowded trade is now “long tech stocks,” followed by “long ESG.” Bank of America’s global fund manager survey for July...
Discord Buys AI Company To Combat A Big Problem: Harassment
14.7.2021
It wasn’t all that long ago that Discord housed some of the internet’s most noxious groups, including white supremacist communities like The Daily Stormer. Since the Charlottesville rally in 2017, however, the chat platform has worked toward slowly but surely cleaning up the mess. But as Discord...
Synthetix hits one-month high as SNX rallies 25% ahead of layer 2 exchange launch
12.7.2021
The SNX/USD exchange reached $13.76 on Monday for the first time since June 3
TADA to Use Tezos Tech for its Ride-Hailing Operations
12.7.2021
MVL Foundation has joined hands with TZ APAC to help develop its data collection and sharing operations. Blockchain technology based on the hybrid model will be used for this specific purpose. The development will consist of both the public blockchain of Tezos and Hyperledger Fabric, thereby...