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The lights on the back of this smartphone are the coolest part, so here they are, in all their glory. Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoI have been on a journey with Carl Pei my whole career, and the release of the Nothing Phone (1) feels like absolute deja vu. Everything about the Nothing Phone (1) and the hype surrounding its launch seems like a page straight out of OnePlus’s original playbook. Which makes sense, since OnePlus is a company that Pei helped co-found. Even the terminology and phrasing associated with this…

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is one of the most noteworthy NFT collections on the Internet.Image: Mario Tama (Getty Images)You know the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the popular NFT collection that has enticed the likes of Justin Bieber, Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon? Well, the company behind the collection, Yuga Labs, is suing an artist they believe is trying to devalue the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The first rule of Bored Ape Yacht Club: Do not devalue Bored Ape Yacht Club. Yuga Labs filed a trademarkinfringement lawsuit in California…

The company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club has sued conceptual artist Ryder Ripps for selling duplicates of its Bored Ape non-fungible tokens or NFTs. The lawsuit, filed in a California court this weekend, accuses Ripps of a “calculated, intentional, and willful” scheme to damage BAYC while promoting his own copycat work. Ripps and Yuga Labs have been at odds for months, in part because of Ripps’ RR/BAYC NFT series. The series used BAYC images but connected them with a different crypto token and sold them for the…

The last couple of weeks have had a lot of bad news for some in the “web3” space, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at announcements in and around the recently-ended NFT.NYC and ApeFest 2022 events. The Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) annual event in particular brought in musicians like The Roots, LCD Soundsystem, Haim, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne, and others to perform for its members. On the final day of the event, guests saw the premiere of this video from two of the celebrities who’ve purchased tokens, Eminem and Snoop…

via New Line Cinema For a long time, any franchise that had lain dormant for at least a decade was deemed well and truly dead, until the age of the reboot and legacy sequel emerged. It’s been 15 years since we last saw Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker partner up, but those murmurings of another Rush Hour movie haven’t gone away just yet. The two leads are asked about it virtually every time they’re spotted in public, with Tucker confirming back in 2018 that he was on board, but that was the last semi-concrete…

Less than two months after someone compromised the official Bored Ape Yacht Club to steal $2.4 million worth of NFTs, BAYC creator Yuga Labs is again facing questions about its security measures. In the early hours of June 4th, a scammer carried out a phishing attack that netted them 32 NFTs worth approximately 142 Ethereum, according to . After obtaining the login credentials of a community manager, the hacker reportedly used the official Bored Apes Discord to promote a fake giveaway exclusive to holders of Bored Ape,…

If you are bored of using Instagram and want to take a break then you can disable your Insta account on a temporary basis. Here is how. Social media applications are the best way to socialize without physically meeting people. Instagram is one such app where you can follow your friends and relatives and know about the latest happenings. Instagram is mostly used by youngsters and teens to share pictures, stories, and reels with their followers on the app.…

Yuga Labs, the web3 company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, disrupted the entire Ethereum blockchain as a flood of users rushed to purchase NFTs representing virtual plots of land in its upcoming metaverse project, Otherside. A total of 55,000 Otherdeeds sold at a flat price of 305 ApeCoin, or around $5,800 at the time of purchase (via CoinTelegraph), raising about $320 million in what was considered the “largest NFT mint in history.” Otherdeeds are minted in BAYC’s native ApeCoin, but still require Ethereum for gas…