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On Monday evening, a few dozen shopkeepers and businesspeople gathered in the blue-carpeted hall of a conference center in the Italian-speaking city of Lugano, Switzerland, to learn how to start accepting cryptocurrency payments. Addressing them, alongside a lineup of accountants, entrepreneurs, and city officials like Mayor Michele Foletti, was Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer of Tether, the company behind one of the world’s most popular stablecoins (a kind of cryptocurrency whose price is pegged to that of…

I’m still, to this day, getting surprised by the sheer number of creative apps available in the Play Store. Dream by Wombo is one such app that’s for sure. This app uses AI to create artwork from the image you select.Dream by Wombo app uses AI to create unique artworkThe app is currently holding a 4.7-star rating, after over 380,000 reviews. There’s a good reason for it. You can create some really nice-looking, and unique images with this application. It will only take you a couple of seconds to do it.So, how does it…

The crypto crash has spooked many investors, but blockchain bros have high hopes for one nascent application: GameFi. A portmanteau of “game” and “decentralized finance,” the model offers a chance at earning cash by gaming. Players who complete in-game tasks are rewarded with crypto and NFTs, which can then be traded for real money. It’s a tempting pitch on paper. But play-to-earn shows signs of plateauing before it enters the mainstream. In April, active…

People who agreed to buy homes under construction but haven’t yet closed are facing mortgage-interest rates that could be nearly double what they anticipated when they paid their deposits.New-home buyers are confronting multiple obstacles this year, from surging mortgage rates to home construction that is taking longer than usual due to supply-chain and labor constraints. Many home buyers who signed contracts for new homes in 2021 or early this year calculated monthly payments based on near-record-low mortgage rates of…

A few months ago, I quit my job at Google after 10 years to join a 40 person startup (Replit). At the time, I had a hard time expressing why I needed to make the change, even though I knew with certainty. Writing this helped me sort it out. I left because I needed to fix my work-life balance. I joined Google in early 2011. Larry Page was beginning his second stint as CEO. Everybody was talking about a secret project named Emerald Sea. TGIF was on Fridays, and…

Foto Sipsak | Getty ImagesFor decades, a college education was the "golden ticket" to the American Dream, translating into higher lifetime earnings and better job security.To that point, the median college graduate makes a total of $2.8 million throughout their career, compared to $1.6 million (a 70% difference) earned by their high school graduate peers, according to a 2021 study by Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.But as today's businesses demand more technological skills, and higher education…

Actress and writer Twinkle Khanna accompanied her husband Akshay Kumar to the UK for work recently. The author gave a glimpse of the iconic ‘The Elephant House’ in Edinburgh she walked past. In the picture she posted to Instagram, Twinkle is seen smiling ear to ear as she poses against the famous café that claims to be the “birthplace" of Harry Potter.She wrote a lengthy note in the caption accompanying the post, dedicated to Potterheads. Twinkle wrote, “The sheer delight of spotting The Elephant House where Rowling…

Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction.The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint European Torus – or JET – experiment in England has been called "a breakthrough" by some news outlets and caused quite a lot of excitement among physicists.  But a common line regarding fusion electricity production is that it is "always 20 years away."We are a nuclear physicist and a nuclear engineer who…

Friends, the moment has arrived: the most influential first-person shooter in gaming history* has transcended the limitations of a single screen. Yes, GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64 can now be played without screen cheating because a British museum rigged up $10,000 worth of hardware to give each player their very own screen. It’s all in honor of the game’s 25th anniversary. As my former colleague Andrew Liszewski at Gizmodo points out, this would radically change the experience of one of the greatest multiplayer…

British automaker Bentley has shared new data outlining its progress toward becoming carbon neutral throughout its entire global supply chain. The automaker’s “Dream Factory” headquarters in Crewe, England is already carbon neutral, but Bentley’s latest numbers show how much of a decrease it has made in its overall environmental impact the past year alone. Bentley Motors Ltd. is a century-old automotive brand globally recognized for its expertise in quality and luxury. That being said, the automaker earned early…