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Digital Currency Revolution

NFT: Lotte Group taps Polygon for NFT business expansion partnership deal

Feb 28, 2023 08:06 am UTC| Business Investing Digital Currency

Lotte Group is looking to expand its non-fungible token business to reach the global market. To realize this goal, the companys marketing and NFT hub, called Daehong Communications, has struck a deal with Polygon...

Digital Currency Revolution

Metaverse: Com2Verse, Microsoft partner for joint development of office solutions using AI in metaverse

Feb 27, 2023 11:23 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Com2Verse and Microsoft revealed they have teamed up to apply and use artificial intelligence (AI) technology within the Metaverse. They are also planning to promote the development of various business solutions within the...

Digital Currency Revolution

NFT: Titanic artifacts to be minted as NFTs via partnership with Artifact Labs, Venture Smart Financial

Feb 24, 2023 07:25 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Relics of the Titanic British passenger liner are set to be minted as non-fungible tokens or NFTs. This is possible through a three-way partnership deal between RMS Titanic (RMST), Artifact Labs, and Hong Kong-based...

Digital Currency Revolution

Metaverse: LG Uplus to launch Kidstopia metaverse platform for children

Feb 24, 2023 07:24 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

LG Uplus Corp. is set to roll out a metaverse platform made especially for young children. It has been aptly called Kidstopia and will feature quizzes, provide knowledge about animals, teach English, and more. LG Uplus...

Digital Currency Revolution

NFT: Blur beats OpenSea to become the new leading NFT marketplace

Feb 21, 2023 09:45 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Blur has been described as the fastest NFT marketplace since its growth has been overwhelming. In fact, it was able to surpass OpenSea and has now become the top marketplace for non-fungible tokens. Blur beat OpenSea as...

Digital Currency Revolution

EU to fast-track crypto capital rules for banks

Feb 20, 2023 23:38 pm UTC| Economy Business Digital Currency Investing

The European Union wants to fast-track tough capital rules for banks holding crypto-assets in its pending banking law to avoid missing a globally-agreed January 2025 deadline, according to the blocs executive. The Basel...

Digital Currency Revolution

Cryptocurrency: Do Kwon moved $100M worth of BTC to a Swiss bank account as SEC charged him with fraud

Feb 20, 2023 10:24 am UTC| Business Digital Currency Investing

Do Kwon or Kwon Do Hyung founded Terraform Labs, which created the stablecoin TerraUSD and Luna crypto token. However, the value of these cryptocurrencies dramatically crashed in a short time last year. The event...

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Economy

Burger King Ordered to Compensate Injured Customer With Almost $8M Payout

Burger King is set to shell out about $8 million after the court ordered it to pay a customer who was injured at the restaurant. The burger store chains franchisee in Florida has been found guilty of negligence by the...

Nestlé Reveals New Operations Chief to Replace Retiring Magdi Batato

Nestlé SA food and drink company announced it has appointed the new companys head of operations. Effective on July 1, Stephanie Pullings Hart will be the new deputy head of operations, and she will be stationed at...

Asda Reportedly Finalizing £10B Merger Deal With EG Group

Asda is reportedly in the midst of finalizing its merger agreement with UK-based EG Group, which operates filling stations, fast-food outlets, and convenience stores. Reportedly, the deal will include more than 500 million...

Panera Brands Promotes Exec to CEO Post Amid IPO Plans

Panera Brands Inc., an American bakery-cafe chain store, revealed it has promoted one of its high-ranking executives to become its new chief executive officer. The promotion comes as the company reportedly plans for an...

Samsung To Invest ₩30 Billion in Advancing Smart Factories for SMEs

Samsung Electronics Co. will invest 30 billion won over the next three years in its Smart Factory 3.0 project which would transform SMEs manufacturing facilities into smart factories usingartificial intelligence (AI) and...

Politics

Russia-Ukraine War: Russian Troops Replaced Wagner Fighters in Bakhmut

The Ukrainian deputy defense minister said that Russian troops were replacing the Wagner fighters in the eastern city of Bakhmut, where fighting has been taking place the longest. The minister said that Russian troops were...

North Korea Media Criticizes US, South Korea, Japan Missile Warning Agreement

North Korean state media criticized the agreement made between the United States, South Korea, and Japan that would allow the three countries to share information in real-time on the isolated nations missile launches. This...

US: Biden Nominates Air Force Chief as Top General

The White House announced this week that US President Joe Biden has appointed US Air Force Chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown to serve as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brown would become the second Black officer...

Russia-Ukraine War: Norway to Support Joint Training Programs for F-16s

Norway supports the push for joint training programs for Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets. This follows the endorsement by the United States for the training programs with Ukraine, assuring that the jets will not be used...

Japan Scrambles Fighter Jets Following Incursion of Russian 'Intelligence-Gathering' Aircraft

The Japanese defense ministry said it scrambled fighter jets after a Russian intelligence-gathering aircraft was spotted flying over the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan this week. This follows recent incidents,...

Science

Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades – how the world's most sensitive yardstick reveals secrets of the universe

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves - tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light waves, gravitational...

Why don't rocks burn?

While many rocks dont burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of and thats related to how they were formed. There are three main rock types: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. These rocks are...

Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology – and the results could revolutionize our understanding of how life works

Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. But this may one day be a...

You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are, raising ethical questions about privacy

Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and air in the environment to potentially extract identifiable information like genetic lineage, gender, and health risks, according to our new...

Theory of everything: how progress in physics depends on asking the right questions

When I began my undergraduate physics degree (around 20 years ago), What is the theory of everything? was a question that I heard often. It was used as a label for how theoretical physicists were trying to develop a deeper...

Technology

Apple Reveals Broadcom Deal to Develop 5G Components

Apple Inc. revealed it has teamed up with Broadcom Inc. for the development of 5G radio frequency parts in the United States. The companies signed a multi-billion deal for the partnership. With the cooperation between...

Apple, Masimo Lawsuit Declared a Mistrial

What is a black box? A computer scientist explains what it means when the inner workings of AIs are hidden

For some people, the term black box brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But...

AI is changing how Americans find jobs, get promoted and succeed at work

Whether we realize it or not, advancements in artificial intelligence are increasingly influencing the paths of our careers. Advancements in human capital management systems, more strategic and data-driven human...

AI is already being used in the legal system - we need to pay more attention to how we use it

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become such a part of our daily lives that its hard to avoid even if we might not recognise it. While ChatGPT and the use of algorithms in social media get lots of attention, an...

What is Bluesky and how's it different to Twitter?

Amid management changes at Twitter, discontented users are exploring an alternative social media platform called Bluesky. According to media reports, downloads of the Bluesky app surged more than 600% in...