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Mint Explainer: Can Covid lessons help fight monkeypox?

“For the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on July 23, while declaring it a public health emergency. But the US has reported cases in children as well, triggering concerns it can spread beyond gays and bisexuals. There is an approved vaccine in the US and Europe now, but demand is expected to soar way beyond supply, as already seen in the US. Experts are…

Mint Explainer: How James Webb shoots through cosmic dust

But if you're a professional photographer, the dust on your sensors will prevent light from reaching that specific area on your camera. As a result, the pixels in that region will appear as black spots in the photos. This is why professional photographers take a lot of care when shooting in dusty places. But even they can always clean the lens since the camera is in their hands or in their reach. But what about huge telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that are not…

Facebook’s Meta To Mint NFTs On Polygon Matic, But Bitgert Chain Remains Competitive

Key Highlight: Zuckerberg Meta is minting NFTs on the Polygon Matic networkPolygon Matic price expected to surge as Meta NFT minting startsBitgert zero gas fee blockchain is still the most preferred platform by NFT enthusiastsBitgert NFT marketplace is a big deal The recent news by the Meta team that it will mint its NFTs on the Polygon Matic chain has been good news for the Matic holders. The move is expected to grow the Polygon Matic adoption, which will, in return, increase the MATIC coin price. The…

Crypto News: NFT Artists Triple Mint Fees During Bear Market

NFT artists are more than tripling mint fees to avoid fiat losses during the broken market in June 2022. Last week, the NFT project WAGMI Beach increased the price tag of its Bubblegoose Ballers collection from two SOL to seven SOL. WAGMI Beach released the NFT collection when 2 SOL was worth around $300 – today, 2 SOL is worth just $63. “Because we are a prime example of an NFT that is actually bridging the gap between web2 and web3, our required funding is viewed in fiat rather than SOL,” the company tweeted.…

Mint Explainer: Is AI approaching sentience and should we worry?

Achieving this goal would be AI Singularity or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); crossing this barrier would require such an AI's intelligence to exceed that of the most intelligent humans, making it a sort of Alpha Intelligence that can call the shots and even enslave humans. All of us, which of course does not exclude media folks, have been harbouring such thoughts and voicing them publicly ever since artificial intelligence (AI), or the desire of humans to impart human-like…

Mint Explainer: Why Apple’s Production Shifting Out Of China Not Heading To India

Apple is staring at a potential $8 billion revenue loss in the June quarter, thanks, essentially to supply disruptions in China, where the government pursues a Zero Covid strategy and shuts entire localities, if not entire towns, down to contain the infection where it breaks out. Apple does not like playing hapless victim to policy caprice. It has started reducing the risk of shutdowns in China by shifting some production away from that country where an estimated 90% of the company’s production, leaving out…

Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain

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…