Global payments giant Visa revealed Monday it bought CryptoPunk,” one of the thousands of non-fungible token (NFT)-based digital avatars for $165,000. According to the company’s official news-based Twitter account, Visa told its 114,000 followers it paid 49.5 ethereum ($165K) for the […]
Is there nothing coffee can’t do? A new study from the United Kingdom found that drinking 1 cup of coffee reduces the chance of Covid 19 by 10%. However, drinking 10 cups had no further effect. While vaccines, therapeutics, wearing masks, […]
David Lidstone, 81, known as “River Dave,” was arrested and jailed on July 15 for allegedly squatting on a property for nearly 30 years in Canterbury, New Hampshire. His shack was mysteriously burned down to the ground on August 4. The news of his […]
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that runs on the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. The unexpected revelation came at the end of Tesla’s AI Day, during which engineers gave highly technical presentations […]
Back in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky faced backlash after she said that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick. The CDC later walks back the claim that vaccinated people do […]
How effective is the vaccine in preventing the spread of covid-19? The answer depends on the type of variants. Late last month, a Pfizer-funded study found that Pfizer vaccine effectiveness drops to 84% after 4 to 6 months. The study also […]
We all have people who helped make us who we are. Call them mentors, godparents, great bosses, or just wise friends; no one makes their way to success completely on their own. In business, this concept is similar. Incubators aren’t […]
Remember Second Life back in the dot com boom? There is a new virtual world with an immersive experience called Metaverse. It’s seen as the successor of the Internet from Second Life to Horizon. Metaverse is the rage these days, and every […]
In the past decade alone, 1.7 billion consumers have joined the world’s middle class, with over 90% of the new middle class in emerging markets (Brookings Institute, 2020). Many of the world’s new middle class in Asia, Latin America, Africa, […]
If you don’t automate your critical lease accounting workflows and tasks, you run the risk of racking huge admin costs. You’ll also get stuck in inefficient workflows and complicate your Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) accounting standards compliance processes. The […]
According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a branch of the United Nations, the global full costs of food wastage amount to about $2.6 trillion per year, including $700 billion of environmental costs and $900 billion of social costs. What if […]
Since the introduction of visual programming, developers and designers have been at loggerheads over user interface designs, user experience (UX), look-and-feel, among others. These days, more and more designers are being tasked with non-design-related tasks like frontend coding and UX designs rather than graphic […]
Performance is more important than ever for modern websites. While creating a great-looking website on website design platforms is easy, optimizing it for performance is a tough task. Aside from streamlined visual elements, creators need to ensure that the website’s […]
On December 29, 2020, Boston Dynamics released a video of its dancing robots to usher in the New Year. The Massachusetts-based robotics firm welcomed us into the new year with new dance moves from Atlas and its two robotic friends. In the three-minute video, Atlas […]
Authored by former Congressman Ron Paul via RonPaulInstitute.org Editor Note: Former Congressman Ron Paul’s decade-old remarks have resurfaced amid the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan. The comments he made back then about the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan are spreading on social media and “Ron […]
As a leading cause of disability, strokes affect 800,000 people annually in the US alone. Following a stroke, the brain attempts to repair damaged neural pathways and develop new ones to restore function, often with limited success. This results in […]
In 2011, the Obama administration backed the world’s biggest solar energy project failure ever recorded–The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project. The $1 billion boondoggle solar plant became obsolete before it ever went online because it couldn’t keep pace with new technological advances. The project […]
The impacts of climate change are global in scope, unprecedented in scale, and can no longer be denied. We can see the impacts of climate change all around. Some of the major impacts include increased heat, drought, insect outbreaks, increased […]
This afternoon, The Atlantic wrote a fair piece titled, “The Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation.” The article started out with the author, Tom Bartlett, asking: “Robert Malone claims to have invented mRNA technology. Why is he trying so hard to […]
As you may recall, yesterday hackers stole $600 million in the biggest Decentralized Finance or (DeFi) hack after crypto platform PolyNetwork was exploited on Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Ethereum. The perpetrators set a record within the decentralized finance space […]