Water & Music: An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets — tl;dr: This article presents an analysis of secondary sales and trading activity across several notable, multi-edition music NFT drops from […]
Monthly Archives: July 2022
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Shannon Liao / Washington Post: An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games — Kate Edwards works to foresee blind spots — and help companies steer clear. — In “Stray,” the adorable cat video game […]
Emma Roth / The Verge: In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act — Not just Safari — Apple Pay could finally be compatible with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, […]
Gizmodo: Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products” — Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as …
Rest of World: Inside China’s $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day — Hidden behind the perfect faces of China’s $16 billion virtual celebrity industry is an angry, overworked labor force.
Nichelle Nichols made TV history with her portrayal of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: the Original Series. (credit: CBS) Actress Nichelle Nichols—who made history with her portrayal of Nyota Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series—died Saturday, July 30, at the age of 89. Her son Kyle Johnson announced Nichols’ […]
Natasha Singer / New York Times: Cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing information on 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling sensitive info on millions of school children — At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken […]
Matt Burgess / Wired: How Tor is fighting Russia’s efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges — Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results. — For years, the anonymity service […]
Washington Post: A look at the GOP’s escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail’s filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam — As fundraising slows, the GOP is blaming Gmail’s spam filter. The tech giant rejects claims of bias but is moving to placate Republicans, anyway.
Nikkei Asia: A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks — TAIPEI — In the sweltering Asia summertime of mid-June, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. urgently dispatched a team …