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2022-08-22 17:56:53 On Solving Problems On-Chain

• The UNIC Open Metaverse Initiative is launching a university course that will be 100% on-chain. It will be free to join and attend.

• Students who want a certificate of completion will be able to mint a certificate NFT for 0.25 ETH.

• The course will start on October 3.

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2022-08-22 08:41:06 Metaverse enters the Gartner hype cycle with an outlook of 10+ years to be developed and become mainstream.

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2022-08-21 10:21:29 Netflix's mobile games are growing, and so are its gaming ambitions

• It is estimated that around 1.7 million people are playing Netflix's mobile games daily

• The company has yet to release a true blockbuster game, but its efforts are on an upward trajectory.

• Netflix's plans may include building its own cloud gaming infrastructure. It has acquired several game studios to help it expand and better understand the space.

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2022-08-20 14:43:42 When TikTok users enter a website through a link on the app, TikTok inserts code that can monitor much of their activity on those outside websites, including their keystrokes and whatever they tap on the page, according to new research shared with Forbes.

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2022-08-20 13:57:14 Stanford engineers present new chip that ramps up AI computing efficiency

• Engineers from Stanford have developed a chip that does AI processing within its memory, eliminating the separation between compute and memory units.

• The resistive random-access memory (RRAM) chip is about the size of a fingertip and can do more work with limited battery power than current chips.

• It has demonstrated efficiency, accuracy, and the ability to do different tasks in lab tests. Further development of the chip could result in smart electronics that can be placed almost anywhere.

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2022-08-19 12:50:10 • YouTube still accounts for the greatest share of total global mobile time (i.e. cumulative time spent across all users), and the platform's app also attracts the greatest number of unique users.

• Despite averaging just half the daily time per user vs. TikTok, Instagram still accounts for a greater share of total time spent on mobile across all users.

• People are still spending a lot of time browsing the web on their phones (Ref: Google Chrome in Total Usage Time). However, overall, web browsing now accounts for less than 10% of total mobile time.

• Voice calls are still hugely popular, and people all over the world still spend a lot of time actually talking on their phone (Ref: Phone by Google in Total Usage Time).

• Email isn't dead either – Gmail still ranks 9th in the worldwide top 10 apps in terms of monthly active users.

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2022-06-24 15:49:21 • Solana is collaborating with Osom to release a mobile phone called the Saga.

• The Saga will have a 6.67-inch OLED display, 512GB of storage, 12GB RAM, and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip.

• It will feature support for dApps on the Solana blockchain through the Solana Mobile Stack dApp Store.

• Developers will get early access to the Saga, which will ship in the first quarter of 2023.

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2022-06-23 09:56:18 According to Gemini's report titled - 2022 Global State of Crypto:

• 45% of all crypto owners in the US, Latin America, and Asia Pacific first bought crypto in 2021.

• Over 50% of crypto owners in Brazil (51%), Hong Kong (51%), and India (54%) got started in 2021.

• 47% of those who plan to purchase crypto for the first time in the next year are women.

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2022-06-22 14:17:21 • Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games, Adobe, Nvidia, Sony, Unity, and other companies have joined together to form the Metaverse Standards Forum, a group that aims to drive open interoperability in the metaverse.

• The forum is free to join and it will focus on projects like hackathons and open-source tooling.

• The group sees metaverse as an interconnected system that will need standards, norms, and rules for it to operate everywhere.

• It is led by the Khronos Group, a nonprofit that tried to set a standard for VR APIs in 2016.

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2022-06-20 18:16:05 Blockchain bridges enable the free flow of capital between blockchains. Blockchain interoperability has become a necessity, but every blockchain has a different architecture and consensus mechanism, making native communication difficult.

Bridges assist by facilitating two-way asset transfers and enabling generalized cross-chain messaging.

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