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When New York-based artist WhIsBe — short for “What is beauty?” — first reignited the then-dormant flames of his creative fire in 2011, he was mostly concerned with following in the footsteps of his heroes in the traditional art world. Through graffiti, he thought, he could iterate on the works of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel…

Scams have become an inevitable part of the NFT ecosystem. At this point, nearly all of the biggest names in the space have been victims of hacking. In January of 2023 alone, PROOF Collective founder Kevin Rose lost more than $1 million in NFTs in a phishing scam, and the Azuki Twitter account got hacked. Followers who clicked a nefarious…

Toronto-based artist Mitchell F. Chan, known for pioneering conceptual and public artwork, has unveiled his latest creation, “The Boys of Summer.” The digital game artwork goes beyond aesthetics; it’s a generative PFP collection that probes the contemporary obsession with quantifying self and challenges our understanding of success. Chan has consistently pushed boundaries from one of…

Google is testing an internal AI tool that supposedly will be able to provide individuals with life advice and at least 21 different tasks, according to an initial report from The New York Times.  “I have a really close friend who is getting married this winter. She was my college roommate and a bridesmaid at…

As AI art tools continue redefining how we think about creativity, expression, and human interaction with technology, an increasing number of artists are putting their process on display, helping educate millions worldwide on how to best take advantage of the democratization of these new creative resources.  MakersPlace is taking this trend one step further. The…

The Ethereum merge is still fresh. Not even a month has passed since the second-largest blockchain switched from an energy-intensive proof of work validation mechanism to proof of stake, lowering its energy consumption by 99.5 percent. But context clarifies the magnitude of this change. In the summer before the merge, Ethereum consumed nearly 60 tera-watt…