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It’s fair to say the NFT space has lost a lot of its sparkle over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped some founders, investors and projects from trucking along in hopes of another surge. Devin Finzer, the CEO behind OpenSea, one of the first NFT marketplaces to gain serious traction and market share, is still betting big on the sector. On January 1, 2022, NFT global sales volume peaked at $23.73 billion. Two years later, by the first day of 2024, they had fallen 94% to a mere $1.4…

Sea ice in the Antarctic Ross Sea, on February 4 of 2018. Credit: Jian Liu The year 2023 stands out as the warmest year on record globally, accompanied by the highest recorded ocean temperatures. Amidst these extreme and unusual climatic conditions, Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE), after breaking the second consecutive satellite-recorded low in February 2023, failed to recover at an average rate in the autumn and winter months.…

Apple iPhone sales likely rose 3% in the key holiday period, the best growth in five quarters, but analysts expect a tough year for the company in China, where it faces regulatory headwinds and resurgent competition from Huawei.Wall Street expects the company's latest flagship iPhone 15 to face stiff competition from Samsung's new Galaxy S24 packed with generative artificial intelligence features and a Huawei phone powered by a China-made chip.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Three local councils in the United Kingdom continue to experience disruption to their online services, a week after confirming a cyberattack had knocked some systems offline. The councils for Canterbury, Dover, and Thanet — all of which are based in the U.K. county of Kent and have a combined population of almost 500,000 residents — said last week that they were jointly investigating an unspecified “cyber incident” that had disrupted council tax payments and online forms. Questions remain about the incident,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women and people of color remain invisible to many people in Britain and the U.S. as people pick white men as their heroes instead, a study shows. Their achievements are often forgotten or not recognized when people are choosing who inspires them, researchers have found. Most people said their family and friends,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amid a complex web of disability civil rights legislation in Canada and the United States, one could easily be lulled into thinking that the work is done. Some of this legislation is now several decades old; more recent additions include accessible design standards and guidelines and barrier-free elements of building codes. …

January 18, 20243 min readIceland, Hawaii and Italy have all tried to control lava to save cities in the past. A volcanologist explains the methodsBy Loÿc Vanderkluysen & The Conversation USLava flows from a fissure near Grindavik, Iceland, on Jan. 14, 2024. The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Fountains of lava erupted from the Sundhnúkur volcanic system in southwest Iceland on Jan. 14, 2024. As the world watched on webcams and…

Samsung Galaxy S24 series was unveiled by the company at an event in California on Wednesday, and the company spent most of its presentation showing off new artificial intelligence (AI) features that are powered by the company's Galaxy AI technology. However, a footnote on Samsung's web pages for the new Galaxy S24 series models reveals the Galaxy AI features will only be available on supported Samsung Galaxy devices for a two-year period. The company is also bringing Galaxy AI features to select older devices.On the…

Denver area realtors anticipate interest rates will continue to drive the housing market in 2024. But after a year when high rates stymied sales, they hope interest rates start dropping. “I’m 100% certain rates will be lower,” said Delroy Gill with LIV Sotheby’s. “The sweet spot will be 6% or lower.” Lower interest rates may convince more people to put their houses up for sale and may encourage some potential buyers to rejoin the fray. “A little decrease in rates will bring buyers off the sidelines,” said Lauren Cotlar…

Samsung‘s upcoming Galaxy S24 series, scheduled for its global launch next month, has been expected to support satellite connectivity since the beginning of its development. Actually, the predecessor, the Galaxy S23 series was expected to boast this feature following the footsteps of Apple and Huawei. Samsung has taken its time so far to develop and implement a two-way satellite connectivity with potentially supporting satellite calling. If materialized, it would be one step ahead of what Apple has offered starting with…