For the first time in 3,500 years, humankind was able to look upon the face of Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I. Archeologists discovered Amenhotep’s mummy a century ago in 1881 in Deir el-Bahari, a small village outside the world-famous Valley of Kings, but never unwrapped it due to...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made history by flying into the Sun’s corona (upper atmosphere), making it the first time humanity has ‘touched’ the sun. Three years after its launch in 2018 and after five Venus flybys, the spacecraft actually accomplished this feat in April, but it took...
Nike has acquired RTFKT (pronounced as “artifact”), a company that makes NFTs and virtual shoes for the metaverse. Co-founded by Benoit Pagotto, Chris Lee, and Steven Vasilev just last year in 2020, RTFKT uses NFT, blockchain, and augmented reality technology to create digital artifacts such as viral sneaker designs. Zoom...
Particle, a non-fungible tokens platform co-founded by former Christie’s post-war and contemporary art chairman Loïc Gouzer, will be dividing Banksy’s iconic Love is in the Air painting into 10,000 NFTs [https://www.particlecollection.com/banksy]. Earlier this year in May, the company purchased the painting at a...
The US scientists who have created the world’s first living robots have now found a way to make them reproduce. Known as “Xenobots,” the robots were created for the first time last year using stem cells of the Xenopus laevis, an African clawed frog. An AI program powered by...
Starting Christmas Day, Los Angeles’s iconic Staples Center, home to the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers, the NHL’s Kings, and the WNBA’s Sparks, will be known as Crypto.com Arena. Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com is reportedly paying $700 million for the naming rights to the building...
