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Instagram expands AI-powered age verification program to India and Brazil
Instagram, facing scrutiny from safety advocates, started testing a program in the U.S. earlier this year to verify users’ age claiming to be 18 or older. It uses techniques including authentication via running video selfies through an artificial intelligence system. The Meta-owned service is now ready to roll out this program to two key overseas … Read more
NFT games are ‘only scratching the surface’ of what’s possible — Animoca’s Yat Siu
Yat Siu thinks it’s only a matter of time until more advanced models of NFT gaming are created, designed around the ideas of digital ownership, interoperability and economic utility.
Kraken Appoints Former Gemini UK Head as Its New UK Managing Director
Crypto exchange Kraken has appointed Gemini’s former UK chief Blair Halliday as its new UK managing director.
China floats idea of ‘Asian yuan’ to reduce reliance on US dollar
The proposed distributed ledger technology-backed “Asian yuan” token would supposedly help reduce Asia’s dependence on the U.S. dollar for international business.
Binance Pool Starts $500 Million Fund to Support Bitcoin Mining
Binance Pool is the latest entity to join the growing ranks of alternative lenders looking to provide capital to the distressed mining industry.
Japanese gaming giant’s hiring spree ahead of NFT marketplace
Japanese entertainment and video game company Konami has posted new job openings to expand its NFTs, Web3 and Metaverse offerings.
Regulators are ‘spending too much time’ on crypto: Comptroller
Michael Hsu stated that it is starting to worry him that “we’re not spending that time and attention on some other things,” like fintech, which he described as the “future.”
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Web3 devs ‘more active than ever’ amid crypto winter: Report
Consecutive all-time-high smart contract deployments and surging usage of Web3 script libraries mean that Web3 devs are still busy working despite the prolonged market downturn.
FASB guidelines could ‘smooth the way’ for broader crypto adoption
Another step has been taken on the path to use fair-value accounting for the reporting of crypto assets in the United States.
CoinShares’ Twitter bot gives a ‘fair price’ on NFTs, some disagree
The bot is based on an algorithm that is focused on aggregating different data sets from OpenSea to determine the supposed “fair price” of an NFT.
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Waste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia
Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Waste4Change is one of the companies that wants to help by increasing rates of recycling and enabling better waste management. The startup, which currently manages more than 8,000 tons of … Read more
First Mover Asia: Crypto Trading Firm Amber CEO Argues Bitcoin Can Still Be an Inflation Hedge; Cryptos Surprising Rebound
Michael Wu says that bitcoin offers “a better form” of storing value than any previous type of asset and that ether provides great value as a “tech infrastructure investment.”
Crypto Trading Firm NYDIG Lays Off About 33% of Staff
Crypto brokerage services provider NYDIG laid off over 100 people in the past few weeks, or about a third of its staff.
Some new venture firms are so niche that, at first glance, it’s easy to laugh off their focus
There are big, overarching top-down trends, and there are little-bitty baby trends that have a way of growing into bigger ones. A big trend right now, for example, centers on certain firms that passed out enormous checks to startup founders in recent years and drove valuations sky high in the process. It turns out this … Read more
NFTs will be ‘as disruptive’ as Bitcoin was 10 years ago — Kraken exec
Jonathon Miller, managing director of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken in Australia says despite NFT volumes plunging, the company remains “bullish on the NFT space.”
Did Mark Zuckerberg’s little dance actually show us real metaverse legs?
Image: Meta During Meta’s Connect conference on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement: the avatars in the company’s Horizon VR app will be getting legs soon. To demonstrate this groundbreaking technical achievement, Zuckerberg’s digital avatar lifted each leg in the air, then did a jump, while Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicked into the air. It … Read more
On the Proper Use of Post-Its
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