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Delaying the Ice Age — Ethereum Network Participants Prep for Upcoming Arrow Glacier Upgrade
7.12.2021
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade soon called “Arrow Glacier,” a change that aims to mimic the “Muir Glacier” upgrade. Essentially, Ethereum’s Arrow Glacier changes the parameters of the network’s Difficulty Bomb delay to June...
Someone Replaced The Dinos In Jurassic World Evolution 2 With Uh... Ice Age Characters
27.11.2021
In the original Jurassic Park film, Ian Malcolm has a famous monologue criticizing the park and its very existence. In that speech, he says: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” To the PC modder responsible for replacing...
Nifty News: YGG partners with 8 P2E games, Ice Cube and Quiznos drop NFTs
17.11.2021
Microsoft's head of gaming Phil Spencer said he is cautious about integrating NFTs with the Xbox Store
Digital Asset Manager Bakkt Reveals Plans to Provide Ethereum Services
6.11.2021
On November 5, Bakkt Holdings announced that the firm will soon let customers buy, sell, and store ethereum after offering bitcoin only since the company’s launch. The firm notes that adding ethereum comes at a time when digital currency interest and adoption continue to see significant...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Ghostly New Pokémon Belong To A Special Club
26.10.2021
Earlier today, The Pokémon Company officially unveiled the Hisui-region forms of Zorua and Zoroark, set to appear in Pokémon Legends: Arceus next year. Unlike their original Dark typing, however, these regional variants are a dual Normal and Ghost typing, a unique combination that’s never been seen...
Digital Asset Firm Bakkt to Go Public After Completing Merger — BKKT Shares Set to Trade on NYSE Monday
17.10.2021
The digital asset company Bakkt Holdings has completed a merger with a firm called VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings and the combined business will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 18. Bakkt revealed it was aiming to go public last January, and the Bakkt listing on Monday...
Amouranth Is Twitch's Smartest Troll, But She's On Thin Ice
23.7.2021
It’s past midnight on a Tuesday. Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa stands in her bedroom, which emanates a soothing purple glow. Clad in a fire engine-red top and a choker with a heart-shaped clasp, she appears neither bored nor tired, nor does her tongue seem to be pulsating in agony. This is pertinent...
The Sonic Diamond Necklaces Are Cool, Actually
27.5.2021
Soon, rappers, jewelry enthusiasts, or nerds with money to burn can buy their own Sonic-themed diamond necklace. Tucked into today’s Sonic news stream was a gem (heh) of an announcement—a collaboration between Sega and jewelry maker King Ice to create four gold chains featuring...
Illumination Founder And Despicable Me Producer Joining Nintendo Board
6.5.2021
Today, Nintendo announced that Chris Meledandri will join the Nintendo board as an Outside Director as of June 29.Read more
Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength
15.4.2021
This Sunday marks 10 years since Game of Thrones changed the television landscape as we know it—kickstarting a decade of imitators, influencing the way genre stories were told as prestige drama, and, for most of that decade, expanding itself into a pop-cultural behemoth. Revisiting its first season...
Different Millionaire Fights Refrigerator
1.4.2021
Sometimes, you just decide that you’ve gotta fix something, and you’re not going to rest until you’ve won a battle of wits and wills against a piece of plastic. Most of the time, though, you don’t have 80,000 people watching you do it.Read more
What's New on Amazon Prime Video in April 2021
25.3.2021
Amazon Prime Video’s newest original series will dive into a different kind of American horror story. THEM, from creator Little Marvin and producer Lena Waithe (Master of None) is an anthology show that will explore a new story each season, and based on the trailer, the first appears to combine...
Plant-Based Ice Cream Taste Test: What Comes Closest to the Real Thing?
3.2.2021
The plant-based food revolution is in full swing. There are now plant-based chicken nuggets, plant-based eggs, and countless meat and dairy-free alternatives, and many of them taste really good. And after we tested out Trader Joe’s plant-based burgers, a new vegan ice cream from a company called...
Jeni’s Everything Bagel ice cream boldly goes where no bagel has gone before
29.1.2021
A certain wintry chill descends when people argue about dumb stuff on the internet. A phantasmic voice seems to glide through my apartment, whispering: “Go! See what everyone’s fussing about!” And so I am sucked into inane Twitter discourse time and time again. Most of the time, it’s terrible—but...
Crypto Futures Exchange Bakkt Going Public at a Valuation of $2.1 Billion
12.1.2021
Bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt is going public via a merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created for taking startup firms public. Both companies have now confirmed the transaction, and will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under...
Bakkt crypto exchange to debut on stock markets through SPAC
11.1.2021
ICE's Bakkt institutional exchange will launch on stock markets at a possible $2.1 billion valuation
Why Ice Levels Keep Showing Up In Video Games, Even Though Most Of Them Are Bad
25.12.2020
In games as in life, slipping and sliding on ice patches while torrents of snow transform your eyelashes into crystalline daggers can be frustrating, to say the least. And yet, ice and snow levels are a time-honored trope in video games. On this week’s episode of Kotaku’s Splitscreen podcast,...
Brent Crude Oil Futures Now Tradable on DeFi Exchange Synthetix
12.11.2020
One of two global oil benchmarks, Brent Crude Futures are now available through DeFi exchange Synthetix
US Law Enforcement Promises $5M for the Capture of Venezuela’s Superintendent of Cryptocurrencies
2.6.2020
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has put out a bounty for $5 million for the arrest and conviction of Venezuela’s superintendent of cryptocurrency. Joselit de la Trinidad Ramirez Camacho is now added to America’s Most...
Ex-Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler Got $9M Payout as She Left for US Senate: Report
7.5.2020
Senator Kelly Loeffler received the hefty payout from her husband's company, Intercontinental Exchange, as she left bitcoin company Bakkt to take up her political position