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Dealing with the limitations of our noisy world | MIT News
Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young women a hands-on introduction to engineering and computer science. What is the probability that she would return to MIT years later, this time as…
Crypto’s Wild Meme coin World Sees Trader Make $2M From $450 on COQ Token
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5 Predictions for Real World Assets in 2024
Tokenized finance took off this year. 2024 promises growth in new directions, say Collin Erickson and Mac Naggar of the RWA.xyz research team. Source link
The Year of Institutional Investment in Real World Assets
Recent macroeconomic shifts and improvements in technology for secure custody, trading and settlement have made investment in tokenized treasuries, private equity and debt that much more attractive. Ultimately, it’s regulatory clarity and property rights enforcement that will make 2024 the year of RWAs. Source link
Netflix’s Yu Yu Hakusho needed more time in the spirit world
When Netflix’s One Piece launched to generally favorable reviews and fan enthusiasm, it gave me hope that the same quality and care that went into it would go into its other adaptation of a seminal work in shonen anime: Yu Yu Hakusho. With the show finally available, my hope was woefully misplaced. Netflix took one…
The world came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels
What would have been a historic deal to tackle a planetary crisis slipped out of reach at the eleventh hour. Even so, climate-vulnerable countries and environmental advocates scored some key wins with clean energy after heated climate negotiations wrapped up in the United Arab Emirates, a top oil- and gas-producing country. This was the closest…
Patchwork vaping regulation can show the way to a smoke-free world
YOU have no doubt seen someone on the street surrounded by a sweet-smelling cloud. A vaper. Globally, this is becoming an increasingly familiar sight as more and more people take up the habit. The question on everyone’s lips is, just how bad are these e-cigarettes for your health? Answers are finally emerging, as we discover…
Green accounting: How counting the true cost of cheap food could make a better world
IN THESE difficult times, it seems utterly bananas to say that food is underpriced. In the UK, average grocery bills have risen by more than 12 per cent in the past year. But it is. The price tags on food are way lower – by about two-thirds – than what they would be if we…
World must prepare for frequent and severe droughts, report warns
A severe drought this year affected the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, in Brazil Andre Coelho/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The increasing frequency and severity of droughts across the world is “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”, says a United Nations report launched today at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates….
Pudgy Penguins, NFTs Behind Walmart Toys, Now Chilling in Pudgy World
The Pudgy Penguins NFT collection first dropped in July 2021, selling out within minutes. Since then, the collection has grown to 8,888 NFTs held by more than 4,000 people, Open Sea data shows. The collection’s floor price is roughly $27,000, up from $90 more than two years ago. The collection’s market cap stands at nearly…