The virtual land rush for the ape-centered metaverse project has already cost traders more than $176 million in fees alone. After much ado, Yuga Labs held its long-awaited digital land sale on Saturda...
AI algorithms can still come loaded with racial bias, even if they’re trained on data more representative of different ethnic groups, according to new research. An international team of research...
The announcement follows a vote by the Wikimedia community in which 71.2% voted in favor of a proposal to stop accepting cryptocurrency. Wikimedia, the non-profit foundation that runs Wikipedia, has d...
These days there is a lot of hype surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in data-driven drug development. The advances are incredible, and wide-spread, but how much of the information is ...
KEY POINTS The metaverse is forecast to hit $13 trillion by 2030. All investments are risky, but is metaverse real estate a (virtual) bridge too far? What about our real-world housing crisis? W...
Bitcoin is an infinitely complex system that is a zero-to-one invention with little for us to compare it to, so no one can fully understand Bitcoin. Jameson Lopp, one of the earliest developers in Bit...
Bank and credit union executives know they need to integrate AI into their institutions’ daily operations. The potential use cases are almost limitless. Some, like chatbots, are well known, but ...
What are the services that keep Americans signing up for apps like Chime, MoneyLion, Dave and more? The Financial Brand takes a tour of a dozen general fintech apps to see what makes them resonate wit...
The world of startupland and venture capital: intuitive to some, but a place of mystery to outsiders and newcomers. We know jargon can be baffling — and we want startups, and Sifted reporting, to be a...
Pas un jour ne passe sans qu’une chronique expose les avancées du Métavers, ce concept que Mark Zuckerberg a mis au goût du jour comme un « nouveau monde » à explorer. Entre anticipations et suppositi...
Le métavers incarne-t-il le futur du Web ? Peut-être. Mais ces univers numériques n’attirent pas les adolescents. De Meta à Zepeto en passant par The Sandbox, les métavers se présentent souvent ...
Le club des Five Eyes, regroupant le renseignement de l’Australie, du Canada, des Etats-Unis, de la Nouvelle-Zélande et du Royaume-Uni vient d’émettre une alerte conjointe à l’intention des opérateurs...
733 incidents de sécurité informatique ont été signalés par les établissements de santé en 2021, soit près du double de l’année précédente. Les cyberattaques, qu’elles aient visé ces derniers ou un pr...
Something we don’t really talk about too often, when it comes to digital spaces, is how to make sure they’re healthy. We can go on about how to make virtual worlds fun, or entertaining, or economicall...
Workshop hosted by MIT’s Climate and Sustainability Consortium, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing highlights how new approaches to computing can save energy and help t...