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21.06 / 13:14

Blockchain Technology Ethereum What is Vulcan Forged (PYR) and how to make money playing it?

Distributed technologies including blockchain and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) enable game developers and gamers a more interactive, immersive and incentivized experience than ever before through the new game model advertised by tech enthusiasts and named the play-to-earn (P2E) crypto games model.

18.06 / 11:33

business Technology Amazon Murder Dom Phillips: bodies of UK journalist and Brazilian expert identified

Human remains discovered in the Amazon rainforest were identified Friday as the missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian expert Bruno Pereira.

18.06 / 11:33

business Technology Simba the lion: Abandoned cub victim of Russian wildlife trade begins new life in Italy

A young lion is beginning a new life at a wildlife sanctuary in Italy after being found abandoned as a cub in Russia — a reminder, according to the charity that helped save him, of the trade in wildlife.

17.06 / 20:13

business Technology Returns Training Ukraine war: Boris Johnson returns to Kyiv with pledge of new military training programme

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in Kyiv again on Friday, a surprise visit that comes a day after four European Union leaders visited.

17.06 / 20:13

business Technology Putin attacks 'reckless and insane' Western sanctions and denies Russia stoking inflation

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia's offensive in Ukraine had no influence on global economic difficulties, including energy price rises, instead blaming the West.

17.06 / 17:45

business Technology Analysis: A quick look at France's legislative elections

France will head to the polls this weekend to vote in the second round of legislative elections with a possible threat to President Emmanuel Macron’s majority in parliament.

17.06 / 17:01

business Technology European Union Deal Hungary blocks EU deal on 15% minimum corporate tax

Hungary has blocked an EU directive that would impose a 15% minimum tax on multinational corporations, arguing the levy would deal a "low blow" to European competitiveness and endanger jobs.

17.06 / 13:05

Blockchain Technology Adoption defi Bitfrost releases upgraded SALP 2.0 after protocol helped secure $450M via parachain auctions

On Friday, Bitfrost, a Web 3.0 derivatives protocol that provides decentralized cross-chain liquidity for staked assets, launched the updated Slot Liquidity Auction Protocol dubbed "SALP 2.0." Projects such as Moonbeam, Unique network, OAK network, Polkadex, etc., held their parachain crowdloans on Kusama and Polkadot via the original SALP. A total of 8,834,746 vsKSM ($439 million) and 3,045,564 vsDOT ($21 million) was minted through the protocol.

17.06 / 00:21

Blockchain Technology defi crimes High-profile BAYC collector denies allegations of wrongdoing brought by DeFi detective

On Thursday, ZachXBT, a cyber detective in the decentralized finance, or DeFi, realm, accused prominent Taiwanese musician and blockchain personality Jeff Huang, also known as Machi Big Brother, of misconduct in 10 different cryptocurrency projects. Machi Big Brother is known outside of Taiwan as an avid collector of Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and possessed a collection worth an estimated $8.26 million at the peak of the crypto bull market last year.

16.06 / 21:02

Blockchain Technology Ethereum Cosmos network services Global compute network announces mainnet launch to solve fundamental problems with cloud services

The internet continues to exist as the backbone of society at large. The only drawback is that the traditional internet model relies on all devices being connected to nodes that centralize information, redistributing it to form a flow. Consequently, centralization can lead to a lack of privacy and a single point of failure for all websites that rely on it. Blockchain changes this by creating a distributed network, where all devices store all the information on the web. Although the technology is still new, its aspirations are large and its computational needs are growing.

16.06 / 18:31

Blockchain Technology Adoption This oracle data provider platform has surpassed 4 million nodes since inception

Can a fully-functional oracle network ecosystem that anonymously collects and validates geospatial (location-specific) data exist? One blockchain firm seems to have gotten the gist of the idea. Founded in 2012, XY Labs and its namesake protocol XYO, which is built on the Ethereum blockchain, seek to reward participants for the genesis, interpretation, analysis, and storage of data to be called upon for specific problems. There are currently over 4 million nodes worldwide on the XYO network.

16.06 / 18:13

Blockchain Technology Adoption Blockchain's potential: How AI can change the decentralized ledger

One reason is that blockchain’s use of a decentralized ledger offers insight into the workings of AI systems and the provenance of the data these platforms may be using. As a result, transactions can be facilitated with a high level of trust while maintaining solid data integrity. Not only that, but the use of blockchain systems to store and distribute AI-centric operational models can help in the creation of an audit trail, which in turn allows for enhanced data security.

16.06 / 12:15

Technology London Slovenia will take down its border fence with Croatia

Slovenia says a 200-kilometre fence on its border with Croatia to deter migrants has not fulfilled its purpose and will be taken down.

16.06 / 10:33

Technology London UK PM Boris Johnson suffers blow as second ethics adviser resigns

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a further blow to his authority on Wednesday when his second ethics adviser in less than two years quit his post.

16.06 / 10:01

Technology London Ukraine war: France's Macron, Germany's Scholz and Italy's Draghi to visit Zelenskyy in Kyiv

The European Union's political heavyweights were en route for Kyiv on Thursday morning in a bid to underscore Europe's support for Ukraine.

15.06 / 23:43

Technology London Reserve US Federal Reserve attacks inflation with largest interest rate hike since 1994

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point — its largest hike in nearly three decades — and signaling more large rate increases to come that would raise the risk of another recession.

15.06 / 17:51

Technology WHO London outbreak Europe at 'epicentre' of monkeypox outbreak, WHO says

Europe remains at the "epicentre" of a global monkeypox outbreak, the World Health Organization's European regional office said on Wednesday.

15.06 / 16:29

Technology Art London Deal Europe and Canada have their first land border after 'whisky war' deal

Canada and Denmark finally ended their decades-long "war" on Tuesday, fought over flags, whisky and schnapps on an uninhabited island in the high Arctic.

15.06 / 15:45

Technology Art United Nations London Indigenous rights UN finds Finland violated political rights of indigenous Sámi people

A United Nations committee has found that Finland violated an international convention on racial discrimination when it comes to the political rights of Sámi, the EU's only indigenous people.

15.06 / 14:59

Technology Art London rights What is the European Court of Human Rights?

Yesterday the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) halted Boris Johnson's plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda with a dramatic last-minute ruling.

15.06 / 13:49

Technology Ethereum defi Investments Coinbase NFT marketplace: How to buy NFTs on Coinbase?

Not only is the number of nonfungible token (NFT) collections growing at a phenomenal rate, but so are the NFT marketplaces. Previously, NFT marketplaces were mainly decentralized applications (dApps) on various blockchains, but nowadays, crypto exchanges are also seeing the benefits of having their own NFT marketplace. This includes Coinbase, the exchange with the most users worldwide, which, of course, cannot lag behind the competition.

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