< 1 mn readFunding for activities designed to provoke discussions about climate change and the planet has been awarded to museums in Herefordshire. Two awards of £3,000 and £2,000 will be spent on activities that engage people and encourage them to join in the conversation about the “huge effects” of climate change and people’s “impact on our natural […]
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2 mn readThe UK data watchdog has launched what it calls a “major investigation” into TikTok’s use of children’s personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will inspect the way in which the social media platform uses the data of 13 to 17-year-olds to recommend further content to them. John Edwards, the Information Commissioner, said it would […]
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< 1 mn readJeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin is cutting 10% of its workforce. This week’s move comes a month after the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, which reached orbit on its first try. CEO Dave Limp relayed the layoff news to employees Thursday, with notifications going out Friday. In an email to staff obtained […]
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2 mn readJames Corbin never expected to break into the fashion industry. But a message he got in 2020 – thanks to a photographer who’d saved a picture of him a year earlier – changed all that. “I got a DM, and I thought it was to help out on set, and it was actually to model […]
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2 mn readFor 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family. When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed away the proceeds, $282,153.87, in what they thought of as a safe place — an account at the savings startup Yotta held […]
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3 mn readHyped as it is, the Metaverse remains largely undefined. It’s a challenge to answer the question “What is the Metaverse?” in part because its definition depends on whom you ask. As it stands today, the “Metaverse” includes virtual reality and what we might previously have called “cyberspace” — including digital assets like nonfungible tokens (NFTs), […]
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