UFC followers who’ve enviously watched basketball followers soar into the nonfungible token (NFT) frenzy through NBA Top Shot—the massively common blockchain app that permits basketball buffs to purchase, commerce, and promote NFT “Moments” of, say, a LeBron James dunk—are about to get their very own dose of Web3 enjoyable. On Sunday, Dapper Labs, the Vancouver-based firm behind NBA High Shot, ...
If all goes as deliberate, by Saturday, November 6, over 180 million folks around the globe can be very conscious that Arcane, a TV series based mostly on the multiplayer, on-line sport League of Legends, is launching on Netflix. This mega-awareness gained’t be a lot the outcome of billboards and TV spots and social media posts in regards to the present—although ...
Thrasio, the most important of the aggregators shopping for up Amazon-native manufacturers, has raised over $1 billion in Series D funding, the corporate stated at the moment. The spherical displays a vote of confidence in Thrasio on the a part of its buyers following the abrupt departure of its CFO and audit issues, which delayed its planned IPO. Thrasio additionally ...
Over the previous week, I’ve been working with the brand new Apple Watch 7, which fits on sale in the present day. Whereas the brand new watch is a package deal of incremental enhancements over the earlier mannequin, among the modifications influence its worth as a working companion. The marquee characteristic of the 7 is its display screen dimension. Apple’s ...
Ever since Rotten Tomatoes was dreamt up in 1998 by three Asian-American College of California at Berkeley undergrads who initially constructed the web site to accumulate previous critiques of Jackie Chan motion pictures, it has been synonymous with its scores. The famed “Tomatometer” averages critiques from skilled critics and slaps a film or TV present with both a “contemporary” score—when ...
The concept that “the Black man dies first” in horror motion pictures is only a fantasy. It memorably does occur in movies resembling Jurassic Park, which isn’t a horror film, and Scream 2, which is a metatextual commentary on horror motion pictures, however not nearly as often as legend suggests. Sadly, the rationale for this false impression is that far ...
Bitwise Industries, a startup that’s creating tech ecosystems to enhance financial alternatives in undervalued cities, simply scored $50 million in series B financing led by Kapor Capital, with participation from JPMorgan Chase, Motley Idiot Ventures, and ProMedica. Cofounded by Irma Olguin Jr. and Jake Soberal, Bitwise Industries made headlines in 2019 when it raised $27 million—one of many largest series ...