NFT Boom

from The Observer NFTs Generated $2.5 Billion in Sales in the First Half of 2021, New Reports Indicate By Helen Holmes A truck parked outside of Christie’s displays a CryptoPunk NFT on May 11, 2021 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images According to...

More Neanderthal Art

from artnet Scientists Say an Intricately Carved 51,000-Year-Old Deer Bone Is the Earliest Example of Neanderthals’ Artistic Abilities The bone was unearthed at the mouth of the Unicorn Cave in Germany. by Caroline Goldstein A 51,000-year-old deer bone with symbolic...

Spoilage Alert

from The Atlantic The Internet Is Rotting Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. By Jonathan Zittrain Getty / Valerie Chiang Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently...

Mo’ Ransom

from WIRED A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies An apparent supply chain attack exploited Kaseya’s IT management software to encrypt a “monumental” number of victims all at once. by BRIAN BARRETT The impact has already been...

Hollywood Blockchain

from The Observer The Hidden Value Hollywood Hopes to Unlock With NFTs By Brandon Katz Hollywood hopes to unlock the hidden value in NFTs. Pixabay We live in an increasingly interconnected digital world that has altered the very ways in which we communicate, work,...