Enlarge / Crypto projects built on top of Minecraft, like NFT Worlds, have been left scrambling by Mojang’s decision. (credit: NFT Worlds) Minecraft will continue to be about blocks and not about the blockchain. That’s according to a new official blog post from Microsoft subsidiary Mojang stressing that “integrations of NFTs with Minecraft are generally…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Trailer for HBO Max’s new Game of Thrones prequel spinoff series, House of the Dragon. It’s time for San Diego Comic-Con, and among the many TV shows expected to feature prominently is HBO Max’s House of the Dragon, a spinoff prequel to HBO’s hugely popular Game of Thrones. We had our share of disappointments with that…
Enlarge / WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 20: U.S. President Joe Biden departs the Oval Office and walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House July 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. Biden is traveling to Somerset, Massachusetts to discuss his next steps in addressing climate change. He is scheduled to deliver remarks…
Livestream shopping in the United States has a ways to go to catch up with China’s booming $600 billion industry, but Whatnot’s new $260 million Series D round shows that shoppers stateside are increasingly embracing this way of buying and selling items. The new investment was co-led by DST Global and returning investor CapitalG, and…
A few years ago, I got in the habit of asking researchers the titular question: Are universities doing enough to foster robotics startups? To a one, the answer was invariably, “no.” It was a massive blindspot for some of the world’s leading research institutes, both in commercializing their own work and giving their best and…
Steady as she goes. That may as well be the mantra for Google’s Pixel A-series line of smartphones, as each year the story seems to be the same: “It’s basically as good as the flagship Pixel from last year, but way cheaper!” Heck, I even crowned last year’s Pixel 5a the best Pixel period at…
Windows 11 has just introduced a new feature in testing which makes a handy improvement to the taskbar, among some other changes. The main point of interest here is the work on the taskbar which consists of an overflow facility that’s present for Windows Insiders (testers) in the latest preview build 25163 (which has just…
“Windows 365 is a solution for businesses of all sizes, and we continue to invest in the Windows 365 Business edition to deliver new value to smaller businesses. For small and very small businesses not yet using Microsoft 365, we will provide a simplified sign-up experience to Windows 365,” the company wrote in a blog…
Bus driver Felix Martinez drives route 73 on Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood, Colorado in December. Martinez has been RTD bus driver for 18 years. Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images A rise in retirement among city bus drivers is “throwing transit systems into crisis,” according to a new report. At the same time,…
Elon Musk. Andrew Kelly/Reuters Tesla is the most shorted stock in the world, and investors betting against the EV maker lost $1 billion on Thursday, according to S3 Partners.The short-selling research firm said “short squeeze hell” could be imminent as some investors cover their losing bets by buying Tesla to close. Tesla stock jumped 10% on…