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Footage of Hypersonic Metallic UFO Shown by Pentagon Officials at Historic Hearing
UFO sightings are “frequent and continuing,” Pentagon officials said at the first public hearing on the subject since the 1960s. Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown […]
Researchers Use Algae to Power a Computer for Months
The experiment suggests that cyanobacteria ‘batteries’ using sunlight and water could run small devices. Researchers have discovered how to use cyanobacteria—commonly called blue-green algae—to continuously power a microprocessor for a span of more than six […]
Lula Proposes Latin American Currency To “End US Dollar Dependency”
Lula’s announcement of plans for SUR, a new Latin American currency for bilateral trade, has excited proponents of regional integration, and it has clear implications for the 2022 election. Less than six months ahead of […]
Where the Internet Went Wrong – and How We Can Reboot It
The online world is run by tech companies that we depend on but deeply distrust. New books by Justin EH Smith and Ben Tarnoff ask: is an alternative possible? It is now quite ordinary to […]
Major Web3 Backer a16z Sees ‘Winter,’ ‘Dark Days’ Ahead for Crypto
In its newly launched State of Crypto report, a16z is bullish about the future of crypto despite its ongoing decline in markets globally. There are few firms as central to financing crypto as venture capital […]
China Team uses Cold War Material to Pave the Way for a Moon Highway
Researchers say they are close to solving the intractable problem of building lunar infrastructure. Beijing researchers say they have developed and tested the technology to build a highway on the moon. “I have often dreamed […]
“Prey” Teaser Trailer Brings The Predator To A Different Era
Now, after many Predator movies, get ready for Prey – a new take on the alien-hunter tale, placing the franchise in a whole different era: the Comanche Nation, 300 years ago. From 10 Cloverfield Lane […]
Psychedelics Industry Targets Power Players
The psychedelic industry is arriving at Davos amid a renaissance of popular interest in the drugs. Most are still considered illegal, although a number of cities and states have decriminalized some. Stock values for companies […]
Crypto is Weathering a Bitter Storm
Each company in the crypto ecosystem has its own explanation for why it’s faltering. One shiny premise of DeFi, or decentralized finance—a catch-all term for cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects related to the exchange of value—is […]
It’s Africa’s Century – for Better or Worse
Asia gets the attention, but the real economic revolution is the inevitable growth of an overlooked continent. When Nigeria has a population of over 300 million its fortunes matter on the global scale. That population […]
Elon Musk Continues to Rail Against Twitter Bots
Musk doubts Twitter’s numbers and ponders if over 90% of service’s daily active users are fake. Elon Musk continued to sound off about the actual number of automated bots and fake accounts on Twitter Inc. […]
The First Photo of the Milky Way’s Monster Black Hole Sagittarius A*
The Event Horizon Telescope has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that […]
Africa Accounts for 70% of the World’s $1 Trillion Mobile Money Market
Although the use of mobile money has become a global phenomenon, African users remain a significant driver. Transaction values grew fastest in the Middle East and North Africa (49%), sub-Saharan Africa (40%) and Latin America […]
Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates Meta’s High-End Project Cambria VR Headset
The upcoming headset is able to do high-resolution, full-color passthrough so that wearers can interact with virtual objects overlaid onto their real-life environments. The mixed reality experience is built using Meta’s Presence Platform, which was […]
To See the Universe More Clearly, Think in Terms of Processes, Not Objects
Nothing is fixed in time or space. Everything – from quantum particles to people, planets and galaxies – is in constant motion, and part of a constellation of inextricably interwoven systems. That might seem like […]
Who is the Soros of the Terra Short?
Everyone is talking about the $UST attack right now, including Janet Yellen. But no one is talking about how much money the attacker made. Lets dig in. Our story starts in late March, when the […]
Congress to Hold First Public Hearing on UFOs in 50 years: How to Watch
The US House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee will look to shed some light on UFOs with an open hearing on Tuesday, May 17. Indiana Rep. Andre Carson will chair the hearing. “Congress hasn’t […]
Ether Futures Lead $1.2B in Liquidations, Crypto Market Cap Drops 16% Overnight
The past 24 hours were among of the biggest crypto market drops in recent months. Ether futures led liquidation losses in the past 24 hours as crypto markets lost over 16% of their overall capitalization, […]
Inside TikTok: Zhang Yiming’s Journey
In order to clarify the trajectory of TikTok’s rise in various countries, it is necessary to introduce a little business knowledge. Generally speaking, TikTok has to cross four stages, and the “inflection point” is the […]
Why the USA Now Needs More Digital Privacy Protections
The end of Roe v. Wade should be understood in the context of America’s vast and underregulated surveillance economy, and the reliance of law enforcement on it. It’s true that even if Roe is overturned, […]
Forget Personalisation
True personalisation is unachievable due to poor data quality, but it’s ineffective anyway and should be replaced with creative that resonates with everyone. Most personalisation efforts are powered by third-party data. Marketers infer who customers […]
Mark Zuckerberg to Investors: Expect Nothing From the Metaverse
Just months after a corporate rebrand, Meta seems to be downplaying the promise of its metaverse. The company formerly known as Facebook is already signaling investors not to hope for much actual revenue from its […]
Blink, Bid, Buy
Donald MacKenzie on digital advertising and the economics of online news. Click on a link to an article on a news website. If you have a fast internet connection, you’ll see the article almost immediately, […]
AI research is a Dumpster Fire and Google’s Holding the Matches
The flood of talent that arrived in the wake of the deep learning explosion also brought a mudslide of bad research, fraud, and corporate greed along with it. Google, more than any other company, bears […]
Spatial Partners with Ready Player Me for a Better Avatar Experience
We all hope for something better than what we see in games today. Spatial and Ready Player Me have some thoughts. Ready Player Me enables participants to create avatars they can use across the metaverse. […]
ApeCoin Drops After Ethereum-Crashing Record Virtual Land Sale
Yuga Labs apologized on Twitter for “turning off the light on Ethereum,” and suggested the possibility of establishing an ApeCoin blockchain. Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of NFTs, […]
Electric Planes Take Off
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that 170 projects worldwide are focused on developing electric planes — double the number underway in 2018. A report from NREL — one of the laboratories that serves the […]
Tech Companies Are Not Ready for a Post-Roe Era
Silicon Valley firms are about to be at the center of the storm around abortion access and reproductive rights. They need to prepare. The digital revolution came of age when legal abortion was the default. […]
On Thinkers and Doers
Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer’s world. Scientists tend to develop technology that is unique, and engineers tend to use existing technology in […]