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The Other Side of the Coin: Why Do People Hate NFTs

We have covered NFTs extensively on our website, their uses, applications, and their shortcoming. To some, they are nothing but scams, ultra-rich people’s hobbies, or greedy maneuvers by big companies and celebrities to siphon even more money out of the common person. To others, they represent a beautiful future of financial freedom, community, and economic […]

Factbox-From Outer Space to Social Media, Elon Musk's Growing Universe

Twitter Inc is poised to accept billionaire Elon Musk’s “best and final” $43 billion takeover offer, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. This comes on the heels of Musk announcing that he had secured $46.5 billion in debt and equity financing for the deal. Earlier in April, the social media company had […]

EU sets new online rules for Google, Meta to curb illegal content

Alphabet unit Google, Meta and other large online platforms will have to do more to tackle illegal content or risk hefty fines under new internet rules agreed between European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday. The agreement came after more than 16 hours of negotiations. The Digital Services Act (DSA) is the second prong […]

A Leap Into the World of Sustainable Smartphones

The COVID-19 pandemic and the overtake of digital transformation on all frontiers hazardously affected the supply chain of many industries, and the smartphone industry is one of them. With the speedy technological development, everyone has built this craving to have the thinnest, fastest, latest, and smartest phones. But what do we really know about the […]

Netflix ads are coming: Ad-supported streaming plans down the line

Netflix ads are soon to be implemented as lower-cost, ad-supported alternative packages, co-CEO Reed Hastings stated during the company’s Q1 earnings interview, after years of maintaining subscription-only plans, and in fear of massive subscriber loss. Hastings predicted that the firm will fully flesh out its ad-supported streaming approach in the next year or two, adding “but think […]

Taiwan Firms in China Hub Make Uneven Restart from COVID Curbs

Taiwan firms making chip and electronic components reported a mixed picture on Wednesday on work resumption in the eastern Chinese city of Kunshan after COVID-19 curbs, with some warning deliveries would be postponed until next month. China has put Shanghai under a tight lockdown since late March and neighbouring Kunshan has also tightened curbs to […]

Will High Altitude Platforms Become an Integral Part of 6G?

The sixth generation of the in the evolution of wireless evolution promises to be disruptive in terms of the extreme solutions envisioned to meet the projected targets in terms of data rates, latencies, coverage, use cases, etc. The drive to ubiquitous connectivity and ever-increasing capacity requirements have pushed designers to foresee a vertical expansion of […]

Cryptoverse: Gold Coins Glimmer Amid the Global Gloom

A fledgling class of crypto that feasts on risk is outshining a wider market paralyzed by war and inflation. Coins backed by gold are newer variants of “stablecoins”, which are typically pegged to the dollar to tame volatility. The largest, Pax Gold or PAXG, has jumped 7.4% in 2022, while main rival Tether Gold has […]

How will Twitter's board handle Elon Musk?

Many investors, analysts and investment bankers expect Twitter Inc’s board of directors to reject Elon Musk’s $43 billion acquisition offer in the coming days as inadequate, but how would the social media company then proceed? Twitter shares dropped on Thursday after Musk unveiled his offer, as the market deemed it too low and too thin […]