A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape) . Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming, AI and regulation.
Beacon Chain validators holding 66% of the total stake would comply with sanction requests, igniting discussion on Ethereum censorship resistance.
E2EE prevents anyone other than the sender and receiver from reading messages.
Nvidia just announced a series of technology innovations that bring the metaverse and AI closer together than ever before.
PianoVision is an augmented reality app that allows beginner musicians to learn the piano via hand tracking technology...
The company has previously unveiled images of its first virtual human, ANA, in June. Starting today, viewers can get a sneak peek inside her daily life with the launch of ANA’s YouTube channel and Instagram account.
"As a virtual influencer, ANA has many hobbies, which include gaming, music, dancing, and fashion. In addition to these interests, her largest motivating factor is spreading joy and happiness through music and entertainment." https://www.krafton.com.
"virtual human" . I will just leave this here... A recent thread in tech news has been BMW's move towards nickel-and-diming owners of its cars with microtransactions, a move so popular that BMW software hacks are now available. This is a shard
Stephen Thaler is a man on a mission. It's not a very good mission, but it's a mission. He created something called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) and claims that it's creating things, for which he has tried to file for patents and copyrights around the globe, with his mission being…
TikTok has rolled a new in-app text-to-image AI generator that lets users type in a prompt and receive an image that can be used as the background in their videos. The effect is called “AI greenscreen” and can be accessed via the short-form video app’s camera screen. The new effect was first spotted by The […]
An announcement from Stability.ai comes with some great news for anyone on the AI image generation hype. Stable Diffusion, an image generation software that uses consumer level hardware, will soon be
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Although CryptoKitties’ demands on the network subsided as players left, gas will likely be the final nail in the game’s coffin. The median price of a CryptoKitty in the past three months is about 0.04 ether, or $40 to $50, which is often less than the gas required to complete the transaction. Even those who want to casually own and breed inexpensive CryptoKitties for fun can’t do it without spending hundreds of dollars.
"The spectacular rise and fall of Cryptokitties, the first blockchain game" by MATTHEW S. SMITH, IEEE Spectrum
Hang in there, blockchain kitty! 
