Owning

Let’s explore various ways individuals can capitalize on the burgeoning crypto space  In the ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrencies, the potential for profit extends far beyond direct ownership of digital assets. While buying and holding cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum remains a popular investment strategy, there are numerous alternative methods to profit from the crypto market without actually owning any tokens. From trading derivatives to participating in decentralized finance (DeFi)…

Picture this: It's the year 2045 and you want to show your future partner/child/pal your favorite game of 2023, Alan Wake 2. You've still kept your trusty PlayStation 5 around, waiting for nostalgia to inspire you to dust off the old console and boot it up once more. But as you do, you discover you don't have Alan Wake 2 installed on your system. And the PlayStation store no longer supports the PlayStation 5. And the game was never available to purchase physically, so... you get the picture.For years now,…

Players will need to feel a fair bit more “comfortable” with the idea of subscription models and, to a greater extent, not actually owning anything they buy. This week, Ubisoft rejiggered its entire subscription model, but to sell players and the industry on its new move, one company exec misconstrued why gamers and developers might not be so keen to pony up monthly for their games.Who’s This Thing Actually for? | PlayStation Portal Hands OnUbisoft’s head of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, offered a fair few innocuous…

Ubisoft director of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, has spoken about how subscription services have caused players to become comfortable not owning games. In a new interview with GameIndustry.biz, Tremblay spoke about the new version of Ubisoft’s subscription service, Ubisoft +, and explained how he sees people coming to accept a streaming future eventually. “One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They…

A new review suggests that having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related disorders.Australian researchers conducted an analysis of 17 studies published during the last 44 years, from 11 countries including the US and the UK."We found an association between broadly defined cat ownership and increased odds of developing schizophrenia-related disorders," writes psychiatrist John McGrath and fellow researchers, all from the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.This idea that…

Other brands can copy your style, tone and strategy — but they can’t copy your data. Your data is your competitive advantage in an environment where enterprises are working to grab market share by designing can’t-miss, always-on customer experiences. Your marketing tech stack enables those experiences.  Join ActionIQ and Snowplow to learn the value of composing your stack – decoupling the data collection and activation layers to drive more intelligent targeting.…

Like millions of parents around the world, Pragya Agarwal has spent countless rainy afternoons watching Frozen.Back in 2013, when Disney first released its animated tale of two spirited princess sisters who definitely don’t need rescuing by any prince, she watched it with her now grownup eldest daughter. But it was her twin girls, now seven, who fell most deeply under the spell of Elsa, Anna and their magical ice kingdom. The girls have watched all the spin-offs, got the costumes, and though they’re starting to grow out…

Credit: The Conversation People's experiences of private rental housing are linked to faster biological aging, our recent research finds. While chronological aging happens at the same speed for everyone, biological aging varies greatly. It depends on the lives we lead and the risks we're exposed to. Biological age reflects the…

Some sympathy, please, for Allan, created in 1964 as a best friend to Barbie’s boyfriend, Ken, but discontinued the following year because he was so underwhelming. The new and much-anticipated Barbie film resurrects Allan, along with Midge, the girlfriend who later became his wife. Allan made a couple of comebacks over the decades, but in the real-life history of the Barbie doll – 58m of which are still sold each year – he remains a minor character. “Somewhat of a marginalised figure,” says Michael Cera, who plays him in…

Earlier, reports appeared saying Tom Cruise is miffed about Barbie and Oppenheimer taking all the screens away from his Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. Well, in case he was really that angry, he truly shouldn’t have been as his return as the exceptional spy Ethan Hunt is already winning the box office in its first weekend with a franchise record. As reported by Deadline, Dead Reckoning is exceeding expectations — as expected — with its 5-day opening domestic earnings of $80 million, overtaking Mission…