Bitcoin City: El Salvador’s crypto dream
El Salvador’s plans for a new city dedicated to Bitcoin, and push to make the cryptocurrency legal tender, only benefit an ultra-wealthy libertarian elite
Unreal Engine 5
Unreal Engine enables game developers and creators across industries to realize next-generation real-time 3D content and experiences with greater freedom, fidelity, and flexibility than ever before.
Visual Attention Software: A New Tool for Understanding the “Subliminal” Experience of the Built Environment
Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded the range of these possibilities to fields such as computer gaming, education, entertainment, health, neuromarketing, psychology, etc.
Whitest-ever paint could help cool heating Earth, study shows
New paint reflects 98% of sunlight as well as radiating infrared heat into space, reducing need for air conditioning
A Giant Telescope Grows in Space
Everything is going great for the James Webb Space Telescope. So far.
We Already Live in Facebook’s Metaverse
Who among us wants to inhabit an even more virtual world of Mark Zuckerberg’s creation?
British artist Damien Hirst uses NFTs to blur the boundaries between art and money
A Painting or an NFT of It: Which Will Be More Valuable? The new technology is raising questions about the risks and rewards of investing in digital art forms.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro review – another masterpiece
The Booker winner’s brilliant eighth novel expands on his theme of what it means to be not-quite-human, exploring love and loyalty through the eyes of an android
The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market
BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.
How Blockchain Technology Could Transform Sustainability
Gensler principal Kirsten Ritchie shares her views on why this trendy tech may help crack the code on environment-friendly buildings.
Bubble or Revolution? Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently, and very efficiently. For instance, while the transfer of a share of stock can now take up to a week, with blockchain it could happen in seconds. Blockchain could slash the cost of transactions and eliminate intermediaries like lawyers and bankers, and that could transform the economy. But, like the adoption of more internet technologies, blockchain’s adoption will require broad coordination and will take years. In this article the authors describe the path that blockchain is likely to follow and explain how firms should think about investments in it.
