eBay will lock your valuable trading-card collection in the Vault
eBay is pulling back the curtain on eBay Vault — a literal vault where higher-priced trading cards can be stored for safekeeping and sold at auction without the hassle of shopping.
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The Hunger Games co-producer Bryan Unkeless plots Web3 sci-fi universe
The Hunger Games co-producer Bryan Unkeless plots Web3 sci-fi universe The Future. Bryan Unkeless’ Clubhouse Pictures and NFT-project investor and producer Metaversal are teaming up on the sci-fi universe Runner. The project’s first release will launch this month as a comic — with ambitions to eventually expand into TV and video games — followed […]
Amazon opens the piggy bank for live-shopping influencers
Amazon Live (the e-commerce giant’s version of QVC) is offering thousands of dollars in guaranteed money to influencers who will leave TikTok or YouTube to work exclusively for the service.
Invader turns traveling into an art-installation quest
Who needs the digital art of AR to gamify your life when Invader has been creating the real thing for the past 24 years.
The updated American Dream may be fractional home-ownership
A handful of startups hope to make your (fractional) home-ownership dreams come true by making down payments actually affordable.
New York closes the Bitcoin mine
A new bill heading to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk would halt issuing new permits to Bitcoin mining facilities within the state.
TikTok gets into subscription programming with Finding Jericho
Pearpop debuted its new comedy series Finding Jericho last week on TikTok LIVE, making it the first pay-subscription show on the platform.
Cruise first to cross finish line in California for driverless-taxi rollout
Autonomous taxis are officially a go in California, with Cruise scoring the first-ever commercial permit in the state.
Ex-Google engineer believes AI chatbot has achieved consciousness
Former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, believes that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) has achieved “sentience”.
Researchers experiment with how to hide your voice to protect your privacy
Privacy advocates and researchers want to save your voice from fraud and non-consensual voice and medical monitoring.