Month: May 2022
Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code
Bluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, although Bluesky emphasizes that it’s incomplete. It’s one of the most substantive windows into Bluesky’s workings since…
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Dish’s 5G network is finally live in Vegas — and it has NFTs
Dish Network has taken a big step forward on its journey to becoming the country’s fourth wireless carrier — one that it should have taken, oh, let’s say many months ago. As reported by Axios, its 5G network, aka Project Genesis, has finally launched to paying customers in Las Vegas,…
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Starbucks plans a ‘global digital community’ around coffee with an NFT loyalty program
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, along with executive vice president and chief marketing officer Brady Brewer, explained to investors during their Q2 2022 earnings presentation that the coffee company will add “new concepts such as ownership and community-based membership models that we see developing in the Web 3 space.” Brewer went…
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Meta launches new tools to help small businesses communicate with customers
Audio player loading… To commemorate National Small Business Week, Meta has announced a number of new tools to help businesses manage conversations and ads as well as generate leads. According to a new press release from the company, businesses have had a lot of success getting discovered by new customers…
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In A Post-Roe America, Googling “Abortion” Could Put You At Risk. Here’s How To Protect Yourself.
In 2017, an online search for the abortion medication misoprostol was used to charge one woman with second-degree murder. In 2015, a series of text messages with a friend about getting an abortion helped convict another of feticide and child neglect. And that same year, activists used surveillance technology to…
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13 Great Star Wars Day Deals on Apparel, Movies, and Phone Cases
Hundreds of Bothans died to bring us these deals. Source
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