A collective known as Spice DAO spent €2.66M ($3.04M) on a copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune book. The problem is they want to turn the book into an animated show: We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to: 1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service 3. Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) (@TheSpiceDAO) January 15
The amount of money you can make from open source code depends on several factors. First of all, the popularity of your open source project plays a significant role that determines your possible revenue. On top of that, adoption and credibility play an essential role. Credibility can be expressed in various ways. How fast do you respond to new issues? Do you frequently maintain the code? It’s unlikely that an infrequently maintained project will receive a lot of adoption. Therefore, monetization
“Our consciousness is everything. You become what you think about.” — Buddha In the few minutes that you are reading this article, I will tell you about a completely new type of artificial intelligence, I will name the design features and advantages, I will outline the immediate prospects and possible long-term consequences of the introduction of this technology into real life. Together we will touch the future. This article is the fourth in a series on the nature of human intelligence and the f
Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp focus on finding the best way to produce oxygen on the Moon. In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a deal to send an Australian-made rover to the Moon under the Artemis program, with a goal to collect lunar rocks that could ultimately provide breathable oxyg
The unfortunately inevitable has arrived: Netflix is raising its prices (in the US and Canada, for now). Here’s the TL;DR in the US: The Basic Plan (480p, 1 device at a time) is going from $8.99 to $9.99 The Standard Plan (1080P, 2 devices) is going from $13.99 to $15.49 The Premium Plan (4K, 4 devices) is going from $17.99 to $19.99 In Canada, Standard plans will now cost $16.49 CAD (up from $14.99 CAD) and premium plans will cost $20.99 CAD (up from $18.99) — basic plans remain the same up no
The NFL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the results of their second annual artificial intelligence competition. In total, five teams split the $100K prize. And I can’t think of any reason why you should care. Up front: According to the NFL, the contest is supposed to help solve its injury problems using machine learning. Here’s what the league had to say in today’s press release: The NFL reviews game footage of all major injuries, analyzing each injury frame-by-frame from every ang
Your childhood dreams may have been crushed, but NASA has offered hope that they could yet be fulfilled. According to a new report discovered by Space.com, the space agency may soon need more astronauts — and you could be one of them. Possibly. The report reveals that NASA’s astronaut corps has shrunk from nearly 150 people to just 44. As the agency prepares to send humans to the Moon and Mars, officials are concerned that this cadre is too small. These concerns have been bubbling for some time.
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Results from the UK’s first multi-city autonomous vehicle(AV) trial have revealed that 55 percent of respondents would not feel comfortable using a self-driving car if given the
“Please download an update” pops up on most people’s computers regularly, but many worry about doing just that in case their computer doesn’t work as well afterward. Computer users install software updates to improve the performance and security of their computers. However, slowdowns can happen. There are several reasons why. If your computer has limited amount of random access memory (the physical hardware inside a computer that temporarily stores data), then updates could slow your computer do
If you love commemorating historic dates, I’ve got one for you: January 4, 2022. That, friends, is the day old BlackBerry finally died. It’s been a long fall for the company. For a while, BlackBerry was… well, I don’t know about cool, but it was popular. More than that, it defined a particular moment in our collective memory. This was the start of the mobile era, a time when having a full keyboard on a phone felt revolutionary. But all good things must end. The classic BlackBerry devices (those