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Tuvalu will become the world’s first digital nation as it builds itself into the metaverse In the South Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu is planning to create a version of itself in the metaverse, as a response to the existential threat of rising sea levels. On Nov. 15 the country’s foreign minister, Simon Kofe, told the COP27 climate summit that it is looking for alternative ways to protect the county’s heritage against rising sea levels brought on by climate change. One of those ways is through recreating itself…

With global temperatures expected to rise as much as by the end of the century, the island nation of Tuvalu says it has no choice but to build a digital version of itself. On Tuesday, Simon Kofe, the country’s foreign minister, told the COP27 climate summit Tuvalu would look to the to preserve its culture and history amid rising sea levels (via ). “As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation. Our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious assets of our people. And to…

Tuvalu said on Tuesday it plans to build a digital version of itself, replicating islands and landmarks and preserving its history and culture as rising sea levels threaten to submerge the tiny Pacific island nation.Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe told the COP27 climate summit it was time to look at alternative solutions for his country's survival and this included Tuvalu becoming the first digitised nation in the metaverse - an online realm that uses augmented and virtual reality (VR) to help users interact."Our…

Art masterpieces are a risk at any time; AI and new technologies can give a handimages generated by the author using OpenAI’s DALL-E 2In recent months there has been talk about how artificial intelligence can create images from textual prompts. Therefore, when one associates the words artificial intelligence and art, one immediately thinks of DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and other algorithms. In this article, instead, I want to discuss why artworks are often less safe than we think, and how artificial intelligence can help…

After two years of fieldwork, a group of researchers and First Nations Australians have announced the discovery of centuries-old carvings on 12 boab trees in Australia’s Tanami Desert.Carvings on boabs were first reported in the mid-19th century,but they weren’t investigated thoroughly until a century later. The carvings depict snake figures believed by the team to be the King Brown Snake, a character in Indigenous oral traditions, among geometric patterns and other representations of animals. The team’s research…

Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)The Securities and Exchange Commission delivered the lightest of slaps on the wrist to 16 Wall Street financial firms on Tuesday after “widespread and longstanding failures” to preserve employee communications like texts and WhatsApp messages—a clear violation of recordkeeping provisions in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.The SEC alleges that from January 2018 through September 2021 employees at America’s largest financial firms were routinely using private phones and messaging…

We all know that the iPad Pro is one powerful machine for creatives, but Apple wants you to know that other professions are using it for some really cool applications. In Apple's latest press release (opens in new tab), the company has highlighted the incredible work that Tulane University professor Dr. Allison Emmerson and her team have been doing to preserve the ancient history of Pompeii. It all comes down to having an iPad Pro as part of their toolkit. "Dr. Emmerson has made iPad Pro the center of her team's…

WASHINGTON—Bipartisan legislation aimed at helping smaller news outlets band together to negotiate payments from big internet platforms has become tangled in partisan sniping about content moderation, potentially dimming its chances of becoming law this year.The bill, known as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, would create a baseball-style arbitration process enabling smaller publishers to negotiate for compensation when technology giants such as Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook…

CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos and William Rudolf Lobkowicz in the Family Chapel of the Lobkowicz Palace depicting an early 18th-century altarpiece painting of St. Wenceslas, patron saint of the Czech nation.House of LobkowiczPRAGUE — It is past midnight on a Friday at the Lobkowicz Palace in the Prague Castle complex. A 27-year-old Czech prince, William Rudolf Lobkowicz, is crawling on the hard stone floor, taking care not to trigger the alarms behind the guardrails that partition the castle's daytime visitors from the…

United Auto Workers president Ray Curry talks in his office in Southfield, Mich., Thursday, July 21, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Paul Sancya If the United Auto Workers union can't organize workers at new electric-vehicle battery factories that will supply Detroit's three automakers, the union's future would be in serious doubt.…