Ethereum Merge One Month On: What’s Different?
The long-anticipated Merge is now complete, but what changed for users?
The long-anticipated Merge is now complete, but what changed for users?
You hear the word “metaverse” all the time. But how often have you considered the definition? Coined in 1992 by science fiction author Neal Stephenson, the relatively obscure term exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly after Facebook rebranded as Meta in October 2021. There are now myriad articles on the metaverse, and thousands…
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for roughly $4 million. Normally, this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of…
Google’s DeepMind and Google Cloud revealed a new tool that will help it to better identify when AI-generated images are being utilized, according to an August 29 blog post. SynthID, which is currently in beta, is aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation by adding an invisible, permanent watermark to images to identify them as…
Retail giants across the United States, including Walmart, Kroger, Meijer, and Whole Foods, have recently become the targets of a series of hoax bomb threats. While these threats have, to date, proven to be unfounded, they have created a climate of apprehension and disruption in stores across the nation. The perpetrators of these threats have…
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Since the dawn of Bitcoin, it has been theorized that blockchain technology could have the potential to significantly disrupt and transform the way that industries, corporations, organizations, and nonprofits traditionally operate. But in the last few years alone, one specific Web3 advent — the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) — has made national headlines, garnering attention from…