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Digital future of football

FC Barcelona is the first elite football club to enter the metaverse realm. Barca’s president, Joan Lapota, announced that Barcelona will be making their own metaverse with own cryptocurrency and launching own chain of NFTs. There...

Satoshi Island: Highly innovative Ponzi scheme

A new technology bubble is raising up, and this time it involves already existing bubbles as well as an old libertarian dream. A group of businessmen, PR specialists, crypto coders and 3D modellers announced...

Google Moonshot Dream Brought Down to Earth by the Chinese

How many of us remember Google Glass? Google originally advertised Glass as the first augmented reality device. The 2012 (yes, it was that long ago) demo reel featured biking aids and showed user-friendly information instantaneously appearing on-screen...

Distributed GPU Rendering on the Blockchain

Etherium tokens are all the rage, especially those that power the recent NFT craze. Not all of them serve a useful (or justifiable) purpose but one of them might become a useful tool for...

Into the Metaverse with the new AI Research SuperCluster

Social media conglomerate, Meta Platforms, requires better AI to realise their metaverse plans. In summer 2022, the company plans to launch a new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), expected to be one of the fastest...

Dr. Vasos Vassiliou on the rise of Smart Cities

An Interview with Dr. Vasos Vassiliou, Smart Networked Systems Research Group Leader on the concept of Smart Cities and their benefit on businesses. What are the main characteristics and advantages of a “Smart City”? A smart...