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Has Decentraland Jumped the Shark With Its Record Sale?

Has Decentraland Jumped the Shark With Its Record Sale?

As part of the evolution of decentralized protocols, Decentraland (CCC:MANA-USD) makes sense if you separate the crux of the matter from the noise that permeates this space. From relatively simple peer-to-peer transactions to smart contracts to virtual landscapes that undergird MANA-USD, computer programmers have taken prior innovations and built atop of them novel groundbreaking solutions....

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Coinbase brings in team behind BRD crypto wallet

Coinbase brings in team behind BRD crypto wallet

As crypto proponents look to onboard a new generation of users, one of the major consumer onramps has been a host of consumer wallet apps with slick interfaces. Coinbase announced on Thursday that it is bringing on the team from BRD — a crypto wallet startup that first launched its mobile wallet back in 2014....

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Decentraland’s Cryptocurrency Is Jumps  More than 4,500% Year to Date.

Decentraland’s Cryptocurrency Is Jumps More than 4,500% Year to Date.

Despite significant sell-offs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most major altcoins today, Decentraland’s (CRYPTO:MANA) MANA token is making big gains. The cryptocurrency was up roughly 13% over the last 24 hours of trading as of 1:30 p.m. ET. Excitement surrounding the metaverse is surging lately, and that seems to be driving the valuation for Decentraland’s token...

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Google to invest $740m in Australia

Google to invest $740m in Australia

Google has announced that it will invest A$1bn ($740m, £550m) in Australia over the next five years. It is the US technology giant’s largest investment in the country to date. Google says the money will be used to build a research hub, increase its cloud computing capacity and fund partnerships with local organisations. The move...

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Twitter Forms A New Team Focused On Blockchain And Crypto

Twitter Forms A New Team Focused On Blockchain And Crypto

Twitter has built a new team to focus on blockchain and cryptocurrency research for the social networking website. Tess Rinearson, a council member on the Interchain Foundation, has been appointed as the lead and will oversee the developments for ‘Twitter Crypto.’ After the recent integration of Bitcoin tipping in the Twitter platform, the social media...

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Elon Musk sells $1.1bn of shares in Tesla

Elon Musk sells $1.1bn of shares in Tesla

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has sold around $1.1bn (£820m) of shares in the electric carmaker. It comes days after he asked his 63 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla. The company’s shares fell by around 16% in the two days after the poll came out in favour...

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Apple unveils latest iPhones, gadgets at its launch event

Apple unveils latest iPhones, gadgets at its launch event

Apple unveiled four new iPhones, a new Apple Watch and new iPads on Tuesday during a virtual media event held from California. The new smartphones — the iPhone 13 mini, the iPhone 13, the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max — don’t include any groundbreaking design changes or features, at least compared to...

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How a fake social media network pushes pro-China propaganda

How a fake social media network pushes pro-China propaganda

A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China’s government, according to a new study. The aim is to delegitimise the West and boost China’s influence and image overseas, the report by the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) suggests....

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Jack Dorsey’s Square in Australia’s biggest buyout

Jack Dorsey’s Square in Australia’s biggest buyout

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments platform Square has agreed to take over the Australian ‘buy now, pay later’ firm Afterpay. The $29bn (A$39bn; £21bn) deal is to be Australia’s biggest-ever buyout. The offer is a more than 30% premium to Afterpay’s stock market closing price on Friday. The agreement will create an instalments payment...

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Older Kindles may lose internet connection, Amazon warns

Older Kindles may lose internet connection, Amazon warns

Some older Kindle e-readers will soon no longer be able to connect to the internet to download new books, Amazon has said. First- and second-generation Kindles did not come with wi-fi functions included, using mobile internet only. But the slower technology used at the time – 2G and 3G internet – is being discontinued in...