IPFS and their gateways
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is according to the Wikipedia description: “a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file…
Twitch Founder Justin Kan: Web3 Games Don't Need To Lure Players With Profit
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Top crypto VCs are constantly touting the potential of video games as one of the most compelling use cases for blockchain technology. [...]…
How are Ukrainians still online one month into the war?
But how are so many people still online? Despite being attacked by a major military power with vaunted cyber capabilities, Ukraine’s Internet is still largely intact, allowing the millions of people…
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M74/NGC628 with JWST MIRI
The nearby spiral galaxy M74 (NGC 628) observed by JWST on July 17, 2022. The color image is a composite of three monochromatic images from the…
Fact check: Is nuclear energy good for the climate? | DW | 29.11.2021
The latest figures on global carbon dioxide emissions call into question the world's efforts to tackle the climate crisis. CO2 emissions are set to soar 4.9% in 2021, compared with the previous year…
英國軍情五處為什麼將李貞駒列為「影響力間諜」？ - BBC News 中文
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When You Buy NFT Art, You’re Buying a Link to a File
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Dazzling sales of NFTs have made the news over the past year, but each sale comes with a huge caveat: You’re buying a link to a file on someone’s server, and that…
I may be fired over AI ethics work
Washington Post article about his situation and the ethics problem he is consideringThe Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life -- AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate…
The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps
The source of the files claims to have hacked, downloaded and decrypted them from a number of police computer servers in Xinjiang, before passing them to Dr Adrian Zenz, a scholar at the US-based…
啞巴也說話了 馬化騰一鳴驚人
馬化騰過得很如意么？雖然微信刪帖招恨，他卻被指是中國最低調，慎言的企業家。所以不鳴則已，一鳴驚人。
他到底也沒有真正說什麼話，只是轉發了一則帖子，但那轉發的動機和帖子的內容，在中國經濟很不妙的時下，便被猜測是大有深意，而且是貼在『除了胡錫進，沒人關心經濟了』的名下，一時轟動。
胡錫進從『環球時報』總編位置上退下，近來對中國經濟的狀況頗有微詞，四月份經濟數據公布後，他曾有“觸目驚心”之嘆。…
