Web2 changed the world. But our personal data continues to be compromised. The promise of Web3? Decentralization and data ownership.Read More
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Epic, Improbable create $25 million fund to transition devs away from Unity
Unreal Engine company Epic Game is using its sizable Fortnite-backed bank account to woo unhappy Unity developers away from that platform.Read More
A photographer hired by Fiji Water helped create the viral ‘Fiji Water Girl’ meme because no one was drinking the bottled water at the Golden Globes
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for FIJI Water “Fiji Water Girl” stole the show on the red carpet Sunday at the Golden Globes. Many people may not have realized that the photographer who caught the photo-bombing model carrying Fiji Water was actually commissioned to photograph the Golden Globes by the bottled water brand. While the photographer was […]
Report: AT&T plans layoffs despite claiming tax cut would create 7,000 jobs
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) AT&T is reportedly planning a significant round of layoffs, despite receiving a large tax break and various regulatory favors such as the repeal of net neutrality rules. Motherboard reported the pending layoffs yesterday, saying it obtained the information from AT&T internal documents and an anonymous AT&T source. “A […]
Tariffs on Chinese rare-earth minerals create a sticky problem for US competitors
Enlarge / A pick-up truck makes its way out of the Mountain Pass open pit mine in California in 2009. (credit: Photo by Jacob Kepler/Bloomberg via Getty Images) President Trump’s tariffs on rare-earth metals from China should have been a boon to the only US rare-earth minerals mine in California. But a recent Wall Street Journal […]
Luxury resort bans gadgets at swimming pool to create guest ‘haven’
Look, as great as it is to have all these fancy laptops and smartphones around us, sometimes we can become too attached to them. And when you’re on vacation, you just have to find a way to break free from technology. That’s why a luxury resort in Bali, Indonesia is banning electronic devices from one […]
‘Make it look rich’: Trump told Sharpie to create a custom pen for him to sign important documents
Reuters/Leah Millis President Donald Trump is known for using a Sharpie pen. In a recent episode of HBO’s new four-part series with political website Axios, Trump broke into a monologue professing his love for the Sharpie pen and disdain for the traditional government ordered pen. Trump said Sharpie created a personalized black plastic pen for […]
Freedom of worship? US encourages Ukraine to create independent Orthodox Church
Washington has voiced “strong support” for an autocephalous Orthodox community in Ukraine, while the Russian Orthodox Church has accused the Constantinople Patriarchate of betraying its faith to cater to US political interests. While the Russian government has refused to intervene in Church affairs, Washington, which has little to do with the Orthodox world, reiterated “its […]
UK broadcasters urge the government to create a social media watchdog
A smorgasbord of TV broadcasters, mobile network and internet service providers has urged the UK government to strengthen its oversight of social media companies. In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, executives from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, as well as Sky, BT and TalkTalk, called for a new, independent regulator to help tackle […]
Nvidia’s RTX cards could create a breakthrough for eye-tracked rendering
During the presentation of its GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards last week, Nvidia spent most of its time on ray tracing. This is the high-end light modeling tech that could bring a new level of realism to games. But these new cards can do more than just ray tracing. One of the other potential standout […]
