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Web 3 Cyber Threats to Watch Out For in 2022, and Beyond  

Web 3, as we have covered in previous articles, is essentially a blockchain-based internet. It adds the dimension of ownership and decentralization to the internet that we already know, but more importantly, it is an internet that is readable and navigable by a machine, and it is a whole new frontier.   What is, in essence, […]

Amazon Resumes Hiring Spree in South Africa

E-commerce giant, Amazon, is centering its interest towards South Africa with new job listings in the country in various fields, including customer support, senior management, and more. Since 2004, the Big Tech giant has marked its robust presence in the oldest and second-largest city in South Africa, Cape Town. Then, in late 2018, it changed […]

Cooperman, Lone Pine Among Funds that Dumped Meta Before Earnings Rout

Billionaire Leon Cooperman, hedge fund Lone Pine Capital, and mutual fund manager Polen Capital were among firms that greatly reduced their positions in Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc in the quarter that ended Dec. 31, potentially protecting them from some losses during the company’s record one-day plunge in Feb, according to securities filings released on Monday. […]

Canada's Trudeau Invokes Emergency Powers in Bid to End Protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S. border crossings and paralyzed parts of the capital. Under the Emergencies Act, the government introduced measures intended to cut off protesters’ funding and took steps to reinforce provincial and local law enforcement […]

Germans Pin Hopes on Novavax Moving the Needle Among Anti-Vaxxers

Benedikt Richter, a 40-year-old teacher in the southwest German city of Kaiserslautern, long held out against getting vaccinated against COVID-19. He felt uneasy about the novelty of the mRNA technology used in two of the most commonly administered shots. It did not help that his sister-in-law was hospitalised with heart muscle inflammation a day after […]

Crypto Wallet: Best Practices for Navigating the Crypto World

The cryptocurrency industry is young and constantly changing. It is a whole new front, the wild west of the internet, barely regulated and unchecked.  This will not be the case forever; it hasn’t stopped the industry from reaching 2.3 trillion in overall market value as of December 2021, according to CoinGecko, as people rush to make […]

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 […]

UAE, Spain to Bolster Alliance in Industrial and Tech Advances

In alignment with the National Strategy for Industry and Advanced Technology’s (MoIAT) goals to heighten innovation and revolutionize technological adoption, Spain’s Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism (MITT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a robust industrial collaboration with the United Arab Emirate (UAE). The MoU will structure a solid framework to simplify […]