With billionaires Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos making their way to outer space, space travel became a hot topic in 2021. The increased interest in space is also evident in the fact that space infrastructure companies saw US$14.5 billion in investments in 2021, a 50% increase from 2020.
With Facebook changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc, or Meta for short, the concept of a rebranding has been garnering significant attention. Rebranding refers to the act of changing your brand’s image, either to freshen up how consumers think of your company or to completely cut ties with the past and create an entirely new look and feel.
In theory, sleeping less ought to be a blessing for those who have too much to do and too little time. You have more time to be productive and get things done. It would aid in long-term success, as they would be doing more than those who are fast asleep, right?
In January this year, the crypto market experienced a massive crash and lost a total of US$1 trillion in value. With this crash came the fear of the onset of crypto winter, where the prices of cryptocurrencies drop with no upswing in sight. While the fear has since subsided, the crypto market has been experiencing a crash amid growing conflict in Ukraine.
If you can play games, work together and hang out at concerts as virtual avatars in the metaverse, then sex doesn’t seem too far off the mark, right? According to a game development theory called “Time to Penis” (TTP), every platform or game has a certain time period before users find out how to create a penis on it.
In the early 2000s, the multiplayer online game Club Penguin was a new age internet phenomenon. You could buy outfits for your customizable penguin avatar and decorate your igloo any way you wanted. You also had the ability to chat and interact with others through various social scenarios in the game.
With the non-fungible token (NFT) market growing to US$41 billion, 2021 turned out to be a great year for those within the space. The popularity of NFTs is evident in the fact that the use of the abbreviation has increased by 11,000% in the past year. As interest in NFTs increases, more and more people are looking to grab one of these digital collectibles for their collections.
In one way or another, all of us have been exposed to popular tech buzzwords, like non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the metaverse and Web 3.0. As of 2021, the NFT market is worth US$41 billion; several metaverse tokens, such as Axie Infinity Shard and SAND, have been climbing the crypto ranks.
The internet has always been a way for people with niche interests to find like-minded people. One of the communities that has thrived on the internet is the anime and manga community.
For those of you who may not know, “anime” means animation in Japanese. In English, it refers to Japanese animated content. “Manga” is the Japanese word for comics, and manga often serves as inspiration for anime series.
From being named word of the year to becoming a romantic Valentine’s Day gift idea, NFTs have become more and more mainstream in the past year.
With NFT (or non-fungible token) becoming Collins Dictionary’s word of the year in 2021, their growing popularity and impact are hard to ignore. From Bored Apes to CryptoPunks, the past year has been huge for the growth of NFTs. In fact, we saw celebrities, like BTS, Shawn Mendes and Snoop Dogg, coming out with their own NFTs as well.
The cryptocurrency market has been thriving all through 2021. As per the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index, the cryptocurrency market grew by 160% in 2021, which is much higher than the growth that conventional assets saw in the past year.
Valentine’s Day has rolled around again this year, and with it, the question of what to give your significant other is a headscratcher for almost everyone. It’s hard to be creative every year, isn’t it? Well, this year, we have the solution to your problem. Instead of gifting your partner with flowers that will wither after a couple of days or chocolates that will last a week, you can give them a present that will be preserved forever on the blockchain and that is, non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Almost all of us have been exposed to some form of user-generated content today. User-generated content, or content that you and I can create and share on Facebook or YouTube, came into being during the Web 2.0 era. User-generated content is so deeply ingrained in the fabric of the internet that some have even made a career out of posting content on various platforms.
It’s impossible to scroll through TikTok or Instagram these days without hearing the song “We don’t talk about Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto. The latest addition to Disney’s animated film catalog, Encanto, has made the company over US$200 million as of January this year. The film is all set to climb the ranks of other Disney classics, like Frozen and Tangled.
If you have watched a lot of sci-fi content, a hologram wouldn’t be an alien concept to you. Hologram technology refers to a three-dimensional (3D) projection that can be viewed without any particular equipment, like glasses or cameras.
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