Reuters reports that a popular NFT trading platform “has halted most transactions because people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them, its founder said, calling this a ‘fundamental problem’ in the fast-growing digital assets market….” The U.S.-based Cent executed one of the first known million-dollar NFT Read more…
“Apple said Thursday it plans to add more safeguards to AirTags to cut down on unwanted tracking,” reports CNN, “following reports that the devices have been used to stalk people and steal cars.” In a blog post, Apple said it has worked with safety groups and law enforcement agencies to Read more…
As Gita Jackson reported recently in Vice News, some Amazon customers are now explicitly asking the company’s drivers to deliver a performance along with the package. They are posting signs to their front doors or tapping unusual delivery instructions into the Amazon app in the hopes of capturing a spectacle Read more…
Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year-old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned. The funds will help Forbes execute on its plan to merge with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in the first quarter, according Read more…
Playboy has plans to reboot its brand in the digital world through NFTs, digital subscriptions and a new mansion in the metaverse. The company has dropped thousands of Playboy NFTs featuring bunny avatars, launched a digital social platform called Centerfold and has plans to build a new Playboy Mansion in Read more…
Isolation rooms, fears of positive Covid-19 tests and the absence of cheering crowds are squeezing all the joy from the Beijing Games. On the day Team USA flag bearer Elana Meyers Taylor was supposed to march her country into the Olympic Stadium, she was in a Chinese isolation hotel. She Read more…
People who develop Alzheimer’s disease can experience sleep disturbances years before the condition takes hold, but whether one causes the other, or something more complex is afoot, has always proved hard for scientists to determine. Now, researchers in the US have shed light on the mystery, in work that raises Read more…