Twitch is rolling out changes to better position itself against livestreaming competitors like TikTok, Kick, and YouTube. It’s adding much-needed features to increase discoverability, as well as expanding its safety policies to include consequences for off-platform doxxing and swatting, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced at TwitchCon in Las Vegas Friday. Over the years, Twitch has lost large creators to rival…
Quantum mechanics tells us that what looks like a highly predictable and orderly universe is built on a world of unpredictability and mere probability. While the quantum world looks bizarre, it can be understood and even harnessed for technology like semiconductors, LEDs, and quantum cryptography. Something similar can be said about randomness in the metaverse. What looks like a system…
The Singapore High Court has allowed financial investigations firm Intelligent Sanctuary (iSanctuary) to attach nonfungible tokens (NFTs) containing a legal document to be attached to cold wallets associated with a hack, according to United Kingdom-based iSanctuary and local press accounts. A court-issued worldwide freeze order was tokenized as soulbound NFTs and attached to the wallets in question. The NFTs will…
On October 20, the team behind Ethereum layer-2 Base network announced that it’s launching an eight-week training course to turn traditional software developers into blockchain developers. Called “Base Bootcamp,” the new program doesn’t cost anything to attend. However, it’s designed for “mid to senior level Software Engineering individual contributors” and students must fill out an application and be accepted to…
Greek Prime Minister Kryiakos Mitsotakis announced the establishment of an advisory committee to create a national strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) in Greece on Oct. 19. The Greek government said the “exponential pace” of AI development has created the necessity for an advisory committee under the country’s prime minister. The object of the committee is to prepare Greece for the…
FTX engaged BlackRock and Google as potential investors while Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange circled the drain last November, according to evidence submitted in the one-time wunderkind’s criminal trial on Thursday. Federal prosecutors offered a spreadsheet maintained by the now-defunct exchange connected to its fundraisers as FTX’s former general counsel, Can Sun, testified. The document includes info about various fundraising rounds—including…
Applied Digital, a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure provider, has opened its new 200-megawatt (MW) data center in Garden City, Texas. The facility marks the company’s third blockchain hosting facility to go live in North America. “Once fully energized, this location will bring Applied Digital to the full planned 480MW of total hosting capacity across its blockchain hosting facilities,”…
The United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, issued an alert for financial institutions as part of efforts to identify “suspicious activity” related to funding terrorist groups. In an Oct. 20 notice, FinCEN said the terrorist organization Hamas — behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel — employed “fundraising campaigns involving virtual currency and fictitious charities raising…
Raini: The Lords of Light takes the traditional Hearthstone-style, turn-based collectible card game genre and adds its own twists in an attempt to stand out—and it mostly works. Crypto memes, multicolored gems, and other fun mechanics are at the core of this game with collectible NFT cards and its own token for added spice. Developed by Raini Studios, the game…
Game Review: ‘Raini: The Lords of Light’ Brands Itself With Memes Raini: Lords of Light is an NFT-optional card game bursting with crypto memes. From SBF to CZ and Elon, this free-to-play game has some truly wild animations. Decrypt contributor Ryan S. Gladwin shares his honest thoughts on the game. Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/live-events/32YyJHCJ/game-review-raini-the-lords-of-light-brands-itself-with-memes
