The cryptocurrency-adjacent digital art format has driven millions of dollars in sales for musicians in recent days. Is it a force for democratizing the industry or just more hype? On February 28, Grimes auctioned off […]
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Epic Games Raises $1B for Metaverse Plans
Epic Games said today it has raised $1 billion in a new round of funding in its bid to build the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected. The company said the […]
Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing
“There was no history of my ever purchasing it, or ever owning it,” said one confused NFT buyer. “Now there’s nothing. My money’s gone.” Last month, Tom Kuennen, a property manager from Ontario, coughed up […]
The Ponzi Career
The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person. Human work is becoming more creative. More of us spend our time producing code or content. […]
Monkey MindPong
Neuralink has released a new blog post detailing some of its recent updates — including using its hardware to make it possible for a monkey to play Pong with only its brain. n the video […]
Not just Bigger Multiplayer Worlds – More Dynamic Ones
How Improbable is banking on Midwinter’s Scavengers to prove its game platform. Scavengers aims to be a unique strategic survival battleground game where teams of players fight other teams and also fight off dangerous monsters […]
NextMind’s Brain Sensing Wearable
NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind-controlled computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech. NextMind debuted its Dev Kit hardware at CES last year, but the hardware is now actually shipping, and the startup shared with […]
Privacy Concerns about Facebook’s VR Wristband
Facebook says its system will be able to adapt to the individual behaviours of its users by using machine learning to predict their likes, dislikes and other interests, in real time. ProPrivacy digital expert Ray […]
Facebook Demos Augmented Reality Interface
Facebook has offered a glimpse inside its plans for a new augmented reality interface. In a video, it shows off wristbands that use electromyography (EMG) to translate subtle neural signals into actions — like typing, […]