With home prices continuing to soar in popular markets across the country, first-time homebuyers are finding it increasingly more difficult to score a small piece of the burgeoning real estate market. Yet recently published reports have splashed head-scratching breaking news about virtual real estate properties selling for upwards of $4 million in newly emerging Metaverse…
How Much Would You Pay for Virtual Land? Some Metaverse Properties Now Topping $4 Million
EU Antitrust Authorities Take Metaverse Into Crosshairs as They Mull Regulatory Moves
European Union antitrust authorities are taking a hard look at the metaverse to better understand its implications for consumers and competition as they mull moves to regulate the budding network of virtual worlds. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust tsar, told an online event organized by German newspaper publishers that the emergence of the metaverse—a digital…
Hidden Dangers of the Metaverse and How We Defend Ourselves Against Cyber Crime. Feat. Casey Fleming
February 5, 2022
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Blackops Partners Chairman and CEO Casey Fleming has been in the business of countering info-security threats for well over a decade. In this episode of The Wide Angle he reveals the “dark side” of the rapidly manifesting #Metaverse. What can #wethepeople do to defend ourselves in an ever-expanding tech world with correspondingly expanding data exposure?…
Beijing Will Attempt to Censor the Metaverse
Commentary The metaverse is coming. Imagine users jumping into a virtual reality (VR) mountain lake that feels cold, wet, and buoyant. They “swim” across the lake, using their own arm movements, emerge flying into clouds warmed by a volcano, and bump into an AI-powered Einstein ready to field questions about relativity. To give the feeling…
Dangers of a New Reality: How China Could Weaponize the Metaverse
A place where you can be who you want to be, go where you want to go—that, and more, is what the Metaverse is promising. Crypto and FinTech attorney Felix Shipkevich calls it “a brave new world.” Paris Hilton welcomed 2022 by throwing a new year’s party in the Metaverse. On top of the celebrity…
Zuck’s Bid to Rule the World
Commentary Among other things—like multiple virus variants and spiking retail prices—2021 will be remembered as the year cryptocurrencies went mainstream. Wall Street finally went all in, establishing divisions to research and invest in them. Joey Baggodonuts finally got busy and opened a Coinbase account and learned what a hot and cold wallet is. Your Granddad,…
China’s Property Giant Said Its Employee of The Year Was Not a Human, But an AI
January 18, 2022
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From news anchors to company employees, AI-powered virtual humans have quickly taken over human posts in China. In December 2021, China’s property giant Vanke said its employee of the year was not a human. According to The Paper, a Chinese state-owned media, the company declared an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered debt collector named “Cui Xiaopan” as…
Chinese Property Giant Said Its Employee of The Year Was Not a Human, But an AI Program
January 18, 2022
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From news anchors to company employees, AI-powered virtual humans have quickly taken over human posts in China. In December 2021, China’s property giant Vanke said its employee of the year was not a human. According to The Paper, a Chinese state-owned media, the company declared an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered debt collector named “Cui Xiaopan” as…
‘Extreme Surveillance of Everyone’: Bob Gourley on China’s Investment in the Metaverse
In this special episode, we sat down with Bob Gourley, chief technology officer at OODA, and John Mac Ghlionn, researcher and correspondent at the Brownstone Institute. They touch on the Metaverse, what is, how they see it expanding on the global stage going forward, and how bad actors, like China, could get involved. Gourley said, “Nation…
Survey Calls Facebook ‘Worst Company of 2021’
December 17, 2021
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Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, was declared “the worst company of 2021” in the results of an audience survey conducted by Yahoo Finance. The poll, which surveyed 1,541 readers, saw Facebook receive 8 percent of the total votes for the ignominious distinction. Respondents were polarized in their assessments of the tech company and expressed…
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