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The 'Mutes' Of Virtual Reality Are Upending The Metaverse Without Saying A Thing
27.5.2022
In this virtual world, you can dance in zaps of electricity, or in the clouds.Read more
ECB on Crypto, African Bitcoin Hub, Coinbase in Fortune 500, Binance in Dubai + More News
24.5.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Read More: ECB on Crypto, African Bitcoin Hub, Coinbase in Fortune 500, Binance in Dubai + More News
Social-Media Disruptor Project Liberty to Run on Polkadot’s Blockchain Network
24.5.2022
Project Liberty, the initiative backed by real estate billionaire Frank McCourt aimed at disrupting today’s social media platforms, has found a home on Polkadot, the framework of parallel blockchains conceived by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood
Dune Crypto Leader Quits NFT Project After Being Accused Of Racism, Homophobia & Grooming
24.5.2022
Let’s cast our minds back to January, when I wrote a story called ‘Crypto Losers Buy Copy Of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Have Played Themselves’, a piece which I thought at the time perfectly captured the extent to which brainworms had infested the blockchain community.Read more
Sony Is Being Sued For Gender Discrimination At PlayStation Again
23.5.2022
A former PlayStation employee is suing parent company Sony for a second time over what the lawsuit describes as “gender-based discrimination and gender-based harassment” after a similar legal action was dismissed in April. (h/t Axios)Read more
DESK Is Back: CoinDesk Relaunches Social Token Into the Wild
23.5.2022
After beta testing it last year, we’re rolling out DESK as an integral part of the experience at Consensus 2022 – and beyond
Anonymous Allegedly Hacks Sberbank, Russia’s Largest Bank
20.5.2022
Hacktivist collective Anonymous has allegedly breached the systems of one of the largest financial institutions in Russia, Sberbank. The attackers announced on social media they have published thousands of emails, phone numbers, and addresses. Anonymous Hackers Reportedly Gain Access to Sberbank...
Report: TikTok To Add Games, Testing Has Already Started
20.5.2022
TikTok has already taken over the world. Millions of people (myself included…) spend far too many hours on the popular video-sharing app, watching thousands of bite-sized, often very funny clips created by other users. And now, seemingly in an effort to suck away the few remaining hours of your...
Texas Game Studio Will Help Employees Fleeing Anti-Trans, Anti-Abortion Laws
20.5.2022
As large areas of the United States grow increasingly hostile toward trans folks and abortion rights, one Texas game studio CEO is promising to assist employees who want to leave the state should it come to that (h/t GamesIndustry.biz).Read more
Aave Launches Social Media Project Lens Protocol With Over 50 Apps Built on Polygon
18.5.2022
The blockchain firm Aave has launched the Lens Protocol, a social media project with applications built on the Polygon blockchain. Lens is similar to the social media platform Twitter but Lens profiles are linked to a non-fungible token (NFT) that can be ported into decentralized applications. Lens...
Bungie Calls Out Gaming Racism After Buffalo Shooting, Won't Be 'Muzzled' By Sony
18.5.2022
Yesterday players expected Bungie to reveal the latest content coming to Destiny 2 in the form of Season 17. Instead, following the latest mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, Bungie called on fellow gaming companies to examine how racism and radicalization occur in their own online communities even...
Aave launches open-source platform for social networking DApps on Polygon
18.5.2022
The announcement comes a month after Aave founder Stani Kulechov gets suspended from Twitter for his joke about being the interim CEO of the social company
Aave’s Decentralized Social Media Platform Arrives on Polygon
18.5.2022
The launch of Lens Protocol comes weeks after Aave founder Stani Kulechov was temporarily suspended from Twitter
Why decentralized messaging apps will replace today’s social media platforms
18.5.2022
Centralized communication platforms prove to be an easily identifiable weakness in activist movements
Pierina Merino: Rethinking Social Media for the Metaverse
17.5.2022
CyberConnect Raises $15M to Expand Social Graph Protocol
17.5.2022
The project seeks to make user data interoperable between Web 3 dapps
Elon Musk Could Renegotiate Twitter Deal as Bot Number 'Unknowable as the Human Soul'
17.5.2022
In another installment of Elon Musk’s journey towards acquiring social media giant Twitter, the billionaire is apparently aiming to renegotiate his bid to take over the platform, declaring that a lower price tag would not be “out of the question.”
Speaking at a conference in Miami, Tesla’s...
SkillzVault and ESE Entertainment Win Gold at Muse Creative Awards 2022
17.5.2022
PRESS RELEASE. At Bitcoin Vault (BTCV), the team pride itself on solving security issues that no one else can, which requires a great deal of creative thinking. But when a team can think outside the box, anything is possible. Now, it has been proven that creativity drives projects forward. BTCV...
Biden On Buffalo Shooting: 'Hate That Remains A Stain' On Nation’s Soul
16.5.2022
In the wake of the horrific shooting in Buffalo this past weekend, President Joe Biden and New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued statements in response to the tragedy. Both the President and the First Lady issued an immediate response on May 15, referring to the shooting as “senseless...
Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes
16.5.2022
Global styles, a feature of the block themes, is one of my favorite parts of creating block themes. The concept of global style variations in WordPress were introduced in Gutenberg 12.5 which would allow theme authors to create alternate …
Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes...