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Intel's First-Gen Discrete Laptop GPU Set for Release in Q1

On Thursday, chip manufacturing giant Intel announced it would be releasing its first-generation Discrete laptop GPU in the upcoming weeks, without specifying the actual release date, reassuring it will be available in the market in 2022’s first quarter (Q1).  The release will be synchronized with the date of the 12th-generation Intel H-series notebooks, with some […]

Foreign Tech Firms without Russian Offices Face Advertising Ban Within Weeks

Russia warned on Wednesday it would begin imposing advertising bans on large foreign technology companies that do not have official representation in the country by March, as Moscow advances efforts to exert greater control over the internet. Russian legislation has obliged foreign social media giants with more than 500,000 daily users to open offices in […]

Marketplace Suspends Most NFT Sales, Citing 'Rampant' Fakes and Plagiarism

The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet for $2.9 million 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. Sales of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, soared to around $25 […]

Brooklyn Nets to Become the First NBA Team to Join the Metaverse

NBA franchise, the Brooklyn Nets, filled three distinctive applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the trademark “Netaverse” to deliver an emerging viewing experience for sports enthusiasts. “We had an idea of a roadmap that we wanted to incorporate and build on over the first 12, 18 months,” said senior director of […]

OnlyFans Jumps Into NFT Profile Pictures

OnlyFans, an online subscription platform known for adult content, has launched a feature for users to display verified NFTs as profile pictures, it said on Thursday. The UK-based company, which said it introduced the feature in December, joins social media companies such as Twitter and Reddit that have explored ways to incorporate the digital tokens […]

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Makers Unmasked

The new hype surrounding one certain family of non-fungible tokens (NFT) has taken the world by a swift, without any knowledge of who some of its creators are, specifically some of the most famous ones, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC). Until now.  Buzzfeed uncovered the veil of the BAYC godfathers, Greg Solano (32 years old) […]

All in a Day: Zuckerberg Loses $29 Billion, Bezos Set to Pocket $20 Billion

Mark Zuckerberg lost $29 billion in net worth on Thursday as Meta Platforms Inc’s stock marked a record one-day plunge, while fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos was set to add $20 billion to his personal valuation after Amazon’s blockbuster earnings. Meta’s stock fell 26 percent, erasing more than $200 billion in the biggest ever single-day market […]

Meta's Shock Share Price Drop Shakes World Tech

Shares in Facebook owner Meta fell 20 percent in U.S. premarket trade on Thursday after the social media giant issued a dismal forecast, blaming Apple’s privacy changes and increased competition. The shock drop, which comes before Amazon earnings later in the day, spilled over to Europe where technology led sectoral fallers with a decline of […]

Three Web 3 Jobs that will Solely Rise in Demand 

What exactly is Web 3.0, what will change with its advent, and how will the world look integrated with the 3rd generation of the internet? These are tough questions to answer.  Web 3 is, in the simplest words, a blockchain-based internet. A decentralized, permissionless, censorship-resistant; these are the fundamental tenets of Web 3. The more […]