A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming, AI and regulation.
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At TNW 2022, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee explained why his plan for a decentralized internet aligns with Web 3.0 but not Web3.
Meta employees told The New York Times Meta's core election team has been considerably whittled down since the 2020 presidential election.
We’re partnering with TIMEPieces, the NFT community initiative from TIME, today announced a partnership to develop ‘TIME Square’, TIME’s first-ever destination in the metaverse. TIME Square will be…
The global AR and VR market is heating up as startups in the space deploy their technology across education, e-commerce, and the metaverse.
In an NFT world fraught with frauds, few pause to check for fakes: ‘The crypto mindset is they know it’s chaos and bullshit and they don’t care’
Right-clicker mentality gone too far? XD
When Overwatch 2 lands, your unopened Loot Boxes will automatically be opened and the contents carried over into the sequel, Blizzard clarifies.
Could retro and forward compatibility be a hint of how content portability could work in the Metaverse?
Having wired up the Lego terminal we recently reported on as an itsy bitsy external monitor, James Brown has been spotted playing Doom on it. An incredible feat.
The American cognitive scientist explains why not, despite their extraordinary accomplishments .
How deep fakes would look like in the Metaverse?
The mayors of several European capitals have been duped into holding video calls with a deepfake of their counterpart in Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.
Bored & Hungry is a magnet for fans of Bored Ape NFTs and other crypto projects. While finding a tasty burger there is no problem, paying for it with crypto is another story.
To close out the ApeFest 2022 event, Snoop Dogg and Eminem present a new song and video, which features animations with their associated Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT characters, called From The D 2 The LBC.
“There are far more honorable ways to burn $50 million to impress people than buying a superyacht"
“I want to make our world more like the Yudkowskian dath ilan utopia” “As a frontier social movement, we’re supposed to be trying to execute on visions like this,”
“With NFTs, for example, I know there are a lot of these artists in all sorts of far corners around the world that are getting this chance to participate in a global economy that they otherwise can’t, but then at the same time, there are rich people selling $3 million monkeys to other rich people,”
Vitalik Buterin in Twitter and a Fortune interview
