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VICE launches specially designed virtual Metaverse offices

VICE launches specially designed virtual Metaverse offices

Danish architecture firm BIG has created virtual office spaces for VICE, which it calls the Viceverse. The launch demonstrates the potential for mainstream use of the Metaverse. It seems we may finally be entering the real-life Matrix. Okay, that may be a little melodramatic, but the Metaverse’s continual growth in popularity and mainstream adoption suggests we could be using digital worlds simultaneously alongside our physical one sooner than you might think. [caption...

By Bristol, UK
Bots are now hijacking users’ collaborative Spotify playlists

Bots are now hijacking users’ collaborative Spotify playlists

Just when you thought Spotify was the last peaceful place left on the Internet, bots have begun taking over the platform. Remember the days when we exchanged music by carefully curating tracks and burning them onto blank CDs, with track names, doodles, or handwritten notes on the surface of them in Sharpie? If you’re from the latter half of Gen-Z, you might not – but for the rest of us, this...

By London, UK
You can now place your NFTs in a real-life display

You can now place your NFTs in a real-life display

Bought yourself an NFT and want to show it off in your own home? You can now purchase a real display that will broadcast each NFT from various angles, like a moving picture frame. NFTs are questionable - both environmentally and economically - but that won’t stop the market from booming. This new ‘NFT Display’ by Tokenframe is the latest product to demonstrate the explosive popularity of cryptocurrency and...

By Bristol, UK
Hacktivists up the ante in ‘cyberwar’ against Russia

Hacktivists up the ante in ‘cyberwar’ against Russia

Hacktivist groups are continuing to punish Russia with a multi-pronged digital assault. Last week, decentralised groups released some 820GB of sensitive files, crashed the Moscow Stock Exchange website, and hijacked live Russian TV broadcasts. Whether you cheered or rolled your eyes at its declaration of ‘cyberwar,’ the rogue hacker outfit Anonymous has returned to make trouble for Russia. Back in late February, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the formation...

By London, UK