by | Jan 14, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from Nautilus The Worrisome Rise of NFTs An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. BY CALEB SCHARF Humans are very good at inventing commodities, and we’ve been at it for a long time. See that pebble over there? Well, that’s...
by | Jan 13, 2022 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from The LA Times A street musician spent years building a one-of-a-kind drum kit on wheels. Then, one morning, it was gone BY KENAN DRAUGHORNE Sheriff Drumman performs in the Target parking lot in Inglewood. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) A few minutes before the...
by | Jan 12, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times To Understand the Metaverse, Look to Video Games Produced by ‘Sway’ When it comes to the metaverse, Phil Spencer could give Mark Zuckerberg a run for his money. The head of Xbox and executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft, Spencer says...
by | Jan 11, 2022 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Projects
from DIGIDAY by ALEXANDER LEE James Frey Prominent New York City esports organization Andbox has hired filmmaker, businessman and controversial writer James Frey as its first CEO. In doing so, the organization hopes to continue its evolution from a competitive gaming...
by | Jan 10, 2022 | Culture Music Art
by | Jan 6, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Money in the Metaverse In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. By Anna Wiener Illustration by Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest, my husband and I rented a room in the home of a...
