Crypto markets see flood of Queen Elizabeth memecoins and NFTs
There is a long list of new tokens with names in poor taste such as Queen Elizabeth Inu, Save the Queen, Queen, QueenDoge, London Bridge is Down and Rip Queen Elizabeth.
Crypto degens have wasted no time after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, flooding the crypto market with more than 40 new Queen-related meme tokens, and hundreds of new nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in the same vein.
It's Time to Separate NFTs From Digital Art
Not every digital artwork needs to be an NFT. After all, NFTs can already do so much more.
I had a realization recently while wandering through the Musée Matisse in Nice, France, where I went to see a temporary exhibit on David Hockney.
If you’re not familiar, Hockney is considered one of the most influential living modern British artists. His 1972 work “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold at Christie’s auction house in 2018 and broke the auction house record at $90 million (a record broken the following year by Jeff Koons’ “Rabbit,” which sold for $91 million).
Artificial Intelligence Could Be a Great Equalizer
The benefits of AI will accrue not only to the wealthy and technologists but also to the poor and disadvantaged.
If 2021 was the breakthrough year for mRNA vaccines, then 2022 may be the breakthrough year for artificial intelligence. So far there have been major advances in text generation and image generation, and now investor Nat Friedman is predicting big developments in AI personal voice assistants. More innovation will surely follow.
Three Ways To Achieve Scalability In IoT
Internet-connected devices are entering our homes and businesses at an astonishing rate. A recent study reported that the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow to $3.3 billion by 2027. Moreover, by this same year, an estimated 23 billion devices will be online. To accommodate the massive volume of devices flooding the market, constant maintenance is required.
Data Sovereignty: How to Make It Work in a Cloud-first World
The matter of data sovereignty is one that both enterprises and cloud providers wrestle with today as cloud services have gone mainstream. Let’s explore how organizations can address data sovereignty issues in the cloud.
In our post-Covid world, IT departments are allotting significant resources to the management of endpoint device data. With data stored in the cloud – and an explosion of endpoint devices acting as extensions – many companies have shifted towards moving the primary home of their data from the endpoint devices to a cloud. As a result, data sovereignty becomes an issue and brings with it a unique set of challenges with enterprise data residing in multiple locations. This article by Tim DaRosa, CMO, Zadara takes a look at the strategies businesses can take to ensure they are adhering to data sovereignty rules.
What are the three ways fintech is transforming everyday life?
Technology has altered practically every aspect of our lives and nowhere is this more evident than in fintech, particularly payments.
Technology has altered practically every aspect of our lives and nowhere is this more evident than in fintech, particularly payments. Over the last five years, the way we handle our money has undergone a significant transition due to developments in an online-first consumer base. In fact, Covid has only accelerated this transition. As a result, the payments industry has drawn significant investment and interest. Consumers and companies want faster, more reliable, and more secure payment methods to ensure a stress-free experience with money.
How the metaverse could bring us closer to a sustainable reality
The metaverse is primed to transform the way we interact and conduct business, with the potential to impact every facet of the enterprise and the consumer experience.
But this will not come without implications for our physical environment. There is no question that the commerce models currently being established around the metaverse are problematic for our planet.
Today a single Ethereum transaction consumes an average of 60% more energy than 100,000 credit card transactions, while an average Bitcoin transaction consumes 14 times more energy. The average NFT transaction produces 48 kilograms (105 pounds) of CO2, which is equivalent to burning 18 liters (4.75 gallons) of diesel. Despite this, the answers to the climate crisis in the real world might be found in a virtual one.
Metaverse is coming – think of it as our real world’s digital twin with amazing tech
RALEIGH – We stand at a time when emerging technologies are enabling us to create a digital twin of the world that we live in, one with more accuracy than ever before, maintained up-to-date in real time, and with the ability to experience and interact with that digital simulation in immersive 3D.
Throughout human history, we have aspired to create and document versions of the world we live in. From the earliest cave paintings, we rendered copies of our activities and the things around us. As new technologies evolved, we documented our world with painting and sculpture and writing. In more recent history, we captured our world with photographs and sound recordings and later with video. And even more recently we create simulations with software.
Remote work cybersecurity: 12 risks and how to prevent them
Expanding attack surfaces, increasing vulnerabilities and overstressed staffs are among a litany of security risks whose ultimate cure requires more than an ounce of prevention.
Remote work is now a standard option for most professionals, but the rising popularity of work from anywhere has driven a corresponding rise in cybersecurity incidents.
Remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic drove a 238% increase in cyber attacks, according to a March 2022 report by Alliance Virtual Offices, which provides services to the remote workforce. And Gartner’s “7 top trends in cybersecurity for 2022” called the expansion of the attack surface that came with remote work and the increasing use of public cloud a major area of cybersecurity concern. Trends such as these have made security improvements for remote employees and risk-based vulnerability management the “most urgent projects” in 2022 for 78% of CISOs surveyed by security software provider Lumu Technologies.
Homanoid Robots - Applications and Influences on the Real World
Lets a take a look at humanoid robots, their types, and their real-world applications.
Humanoids have been assisting humankind in various capacities, widely leveraged in the domain of Healthcare, Education, and Entertainment, among others. As we have mentioned earlier that these robots are used for various purposes alongside research, their applications have commonly been categorized into healthcare, education, and social humanoid robots.
AI and IoT: How Do Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Act Together?
AI and IoT are cutting-edge technologies that will have a huge influence on all sectors of society and industry.
Since most organizations focus their efforts on developing their brand, software, or network, systems have the potential to revolutionize how firms function.
Cloud bursting: What it is and what it’s good for
We look at cloud bursting, which allows organisations to meet demand by bursting compute and storage to the cloud.
One of the key benefits of the cloud is its flexible, or “elastic”, nature.
Organisations can increase compute resources and storage capacity when they need it with little more than a web browser and a credit card. And, if needs change, they can reduce capacity – and cost – almost as easily.
This, however, does require applications and workflows to operate natively on public cloud infrastructure. And some organisations are either not ready to move all their systems to the cloud – or, for regulatory, security or operational reasons, are unable to.
Why You Can’t Have Digital Transformation Without Sustainability
With much of the world now focused on the goal of net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, industry leaders are asking: How can businesses be more sustainable?
Sustainability has gone from being a nice to have to a mission statement, and businesses are transforming their operations to ensure they’re headed in the right direction.
At the same time, another revolution has sprung: digital transformation. Companies are busy adopting tools and technologies to make processes more efficient and competitive. In the pursuit of global optimization, businesses have a lot to gain from thinking about these two movements in conjunction.
Quantum computing gets down to business
Quantum research today means big business. What was once seen as a scientific curiosity, quantum computing now promises to transform many aspects of everyday life from cybersecurity to drug development and weather forecasting. In recent years work in quantum computing has begun to move out of universities and into corporate research labs, with large multinationals as well as start-ups and venture capitalists entering the race to commercialize quantum technologies. But for all the record funding announcements and hype, some warn that this is fostering a “quantum bubble” that may soon pop.
10 greentech startups tackling Europe’s waste problem
Greentech is one of Europe’s biggest growth areas this year. It’s an innovation vertical that has the potential to shape and influence our future, and investors and innovators are actively promoting development in this sphere.