A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming, AI and regulation.
The Meta Avatars graphics update Mark Zuckerberg teased was concept tech art, a now-deleted LinkedIn post reveals.
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An Australian regulator sent legal letters to Facebook owner Meta Platforms , Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp demanding they share their strategies for stamping out child abuse material on their platforms or face fines.
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg posted an image of his Metaverse avatar on Facebook and social-media users were quick to mock it.
ENS DAO tweeted that the domain's owner, Virgil Griffith, is "unavailable". By this, they mean that he is currently serving his first of five years in prison for helping North Korea evade sanctions. With Griffith "unavailable", the project has found itself at the mercy of GoDaddy. Welcome to the decentralized web3 we've all been promised!
Gaming chief also hopes for fewer exclusive titles, more interoperability among consoles in the future
Help researchers study the link between gaming and wellbeing as you blast muck away from a playground..
Researchers at Stanford have been studying how humans and AI can write together by designing large interaction datasets.
Text-to-video generators are already creating award-winning short films. Are AI-generated blockbusters coming next?
A new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace competitor is ripping away a small percentage of market share from OpenSea, the dominant company in the space.
A new Forbes analysis of 157 crypto exchanges finds that 51% of the daily bitcoin trading volume being reported is likely bogus.
Those who are prone to motion sickness have a harder time adapting to cybersickness and different virtual reality environments. However, people can adapt to the effects of VR-associated cybersickness by playing the same game repeatedly.
The primary focus of Earth-2 is of course to help policymakers and researchers, scientists, understand the impact of various forces on the future of climate.
Unless we can predict climate a billion times faster, we simply won’t be able to do climate simulation with enough accuracy regionally to effect policy changes and whatever new scientific approaches we need to apply to avert climate change. That’s the primary purpose.
Jensen Huang interview: How the metaverse vision will outlast any economic downturn | VentureBeat
