No one wants to be left behind in the metaverse. Two more big companies tossed their hats — or at least dollars — into the metaverse ring on Monday, as North Carolina-based Epic Games announced a $2 billion investment that values it at $31.5 billion. Epic said the new funding Read more…
“Weather predictions here on Earth are more accurate than they’ve ever been,” writes ScienceAlert. “Trying to predict the behavior of our wild and wacky Sun is a little more tricky.” Case in point: according to official predictions, the current cycle of solar activity should be mild. But the gap between Read more…
The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors — Elon Musk — tweeted new ideas for improving Twitter last night. “Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (i.e. pays $3/month) should get an authentication checkmark,” Musk suggested, adding later that “It would massively expand the verified pool & make bot Read more…
The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors just tweeted “Is Twitter dying?” That would be Elon Musk — who’d preceded the question with a list of Twitter’s ten most-followed accounts, noting that most of them “tweet rarely and post very little content.” And in follow-up tweets, Musk pointed out Read more…
“According to a new International Money Fund (IMF) report, cryptocurrency is much more popular in countries with insecure currencies and corrupt governments…” reports The Street, adding that the report concludes “the best way forward is not fight, but to learn how to better regulate cryptocurrency.” The IMF surveyed more than Read more…
The U.S. government recently gave California approval to release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes bred by British biotech company Oxitec. Oxitec, a private company, says its genetically modified bugs could help save half the world’s population from the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread diseases such as yellow fever, Read more…
David Spirk, the chief data officer for America’s Department of Defense, “called for the Pentagon to make urgent investments to defend against potential espionage from quantum computers” that could crack the encryption on sensitive data, Bloomberg reports: “I don’t think that there’s enough senior leaders getting their heads around the Read more…