#Canadian NFT crypto player Dapper Labs is raising money at an over $7.5 Billion valuation! The rush of enthusiasm for blockchain-based collectibles is driving an extraordinary surge of investor interest in Dapper Labs, the developer of collectibles like NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties. Just a few weeks after Dapper Labs raised $305 million at a valuation of $2.6 billion,…
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It’s 2021. You’re at home for the 390th day in a row. Candles have become an essential part of the mix. But you’re longing for the office -right?! Well our friends at R/GA have you covered – No, not the rich and smoky Le Labo 26 or the Byredo Bibliothèque, with notes of peach, peony, leather, and…
California was the first state in the US to announce plans to ban new fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2035. Massachusetts followed. But a new report says that it’s feasible for the entire US to make the shift to 100% electric car and truck sales by the same year, something that’s necessary to avoid the worst impacts…
A dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus Pomerol recently completed a 438-day, 19-hour stay on the International Space Station. Now, one of the $5,000 bottles has been uncorked and tasted for the first time. Several wine experts who sampled a glass of the ‘#spacewine‘ said it was delicious and perhaps two to three years more evolved…
Gartner‘s fascinating look at emerging tech trends, adoption, and the future – with 3 themes – Interfaces and experiences; Business enablers; and Productivity revolution. The rings represent the range, which estimates the number of years it will take until the technology or trend crosses from early adopter to early majority adopter. The size and color…
Following the video of Pager the 9-yr-old macaque’s release, #ElonMusk took to Twitter and explained Neuralink’s short-term goals. “First Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone with their thumbs,” he stated. Musk added that later versions would be able to shunt signals from Neuralinks in the brain to those implanted in the…
Ah, yes the #cookie. Marketers and advertisers have come to love and rely on the cookie. But as we have seen with Google and Apple – #privacy comes first (I truly think Tim Cook is trying to put the world in a better place). We should own our data and decide who sees and uses it and for what purpose. Only then…
A #cognitivebias is an inherent thinking ‘blind spot’ that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate–and often irrational–conclusions. Much like logical fallacies, cognitive biases can be viewed as either causes or effects but can generally be reduced to broken thinking. Not all ‘broken thinking,’ blind spots, and failures of thought are labeled, of course. But some are so…
Crazy Cool – through #nanotechnology, engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting pollution. In contact with specific chemicals, the plant emits a signal which is read by an infrared camera, sending an email alert to the scientists. Yes, you read that right the spinach emails – think early warning system –…
Will.i.am‘s superhero-inspired mask has air filters, earbuds, and LED lights! The Black Eyed Peas iconic lead man is back with another wild gadget — though this one might be his most aptly timed yet. Dubbed “Xupermask,” it combines personal protective equipment #PPE elements with high-tech audio to create a device that, according to will.i.am, has been designed to…