Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Drops White Paper On Building the Open Metaverse

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper toda...

TikTok To Ban All Political Fundraising On Its Platform

TikTok says it plans to ban all fundraising activity soon -- only six weeks before the November midterm elections. The Verge reports: In a b...

Is Plant-Based Meat Fizzling In the US?

Citing McDonald's shelved meat-free burger trial and a 70% dip in Beyond Meat's stock, The Guardian suggests plant-based meats may n...

AV1 Update Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent

According to Phoronix, Google has released a new AOM-AV1 update -- version 3.5, that drastically improves encode times when streaming, rende...

James Earl Jones lets AI take over the voice of Darth Vader

Darth Vader in Disney Plus’ Obi Wan. | Image: Lucasfilm James Earl Jones has been the iconic voice of Darth Vader since the beginning of...

Controversial Artist Matches Influencer Photos With Surveillance Footage

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Smithsonian Magazine: It's an increasingly common sight on vacation, particularly in tourist de...

Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back On GitHub

Code repositories for the Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash were relisted on GitHub on Thursday. CoinDesk reports: The U.S. Treasury Departm...