Jack Thompson Still Has a Grudge
A new profile of Jack Thompson, the notorious anti-violent video game crusader of the mid-2000s. The Verge: When the video game industry is valued at $300 billion, a Halo TV series trailer is occupying prime real estate during the AFC Championship, a.....»»
Top tech CEOs will testify about social media’s role in the Capitol attack this week
Social media executives will be answering to Congress directly for their role in January’s deadly attacks on the U.S. Capitol this week. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai will all app.....»»
The first-ever tweet sold as an NFT for $2.9 million
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold the first-ever published tweet as an NFT, a digital collector's item of sorts. The final bid was $2.9 million......»»
Jack Dorsey"s first ever tweet sells for $2.9m
The Twitter founder will donate the money to charity after it was bought by a Malaysia-based businessman......»»
Jack Dorsey Sells First Tweet As NFT For $2.9 Million
phalse phace writes: Twitter boss Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for just over $2.9 million on Monday. The tweet -- "just setting up my twttr" -- was Dorsey's first tweet, made on March 21, 2006. The NFT was sold via auction on a platform.....»»
An NFT of Twitter"s very first tweet just sold for nearly $3 million
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of his very first tweet for $2,915,835.47. Dorsey put the tweet up for auction on March 5 and received a $2.5 million bid the next day from Sina Estavi, CEO of blockchain firm Bridge Oracle. Dorsey set his auction.....»»
Why did Alibaba"s Jack Ma disappear for three months?
Alibaba's Jack Ma appeared to fall out of favour after criticising China's regulators......»»
Picking up a book for fun positively affects verbal abilities: study
Bring on Twilight. Lee Child's Jack Reacher? Yes, please. More of James Patterson's Alex Cross while we're at it. And let's finish off with revisiting the million-plus words of the Harry Potter saga......»»
China wants to dismantle Alibaba’s media empire: reports
Over the years, Jack Ma has accumulated a media portfolio in China that rivals that of Jeff Bezos in the United States. But now the future of Ma’s media empire is in the crosshairs of the Chinese government, which is wary of the billionaireR.....»»
Gene discovery may help peaches tolerate climate stress
A Boyce Thompson Institute-led team has identified genes enabling peaches and their wild relatives to tolerate stressful conditions—findings that could help the domesticated peach adapt to climate change......»»
The best Apple Watch apps
Apple Watch is a jack of all trades, where the best apps allow you to carry out a variety of useful tasks......»»
You can buy the first-ever tweet. The current bid: $2.5 million
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is selling the first-ever published tweet as an NFT, a kind of digital collector's item......»»
Jack Dorsey: Bids reach $2.5m for Twitter co-founder"s first post
The Twitter co-founder has listed his first ever tweet for sale as a form of digital memorabilia......»»
Jack Dorsey: Bids reach $2m for Twitter co-founder"s first post
The Twitter co-founder has listed his first ever tweet for sale as a form of digital memorabilia......»»
WOX9: A jack of all trades
Researchers used CRISPR, a genome-editing tool, to figure out the hidden roles of a developmental gene called WOX9. It usually induces flower branching in tomatoes and influences embryo growth in a plant related to broccoli. By tweaking the DNA in th.....»»
WOX9: A jack of all trades
Over evolutionary time scales, a single gene may acquire different roles in diverging species. However, revealing the multiple hidden roles of a gene was not possible before genome editing came along. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor an.....»»
Atomic just raised $260 million more to build and fund its own companies
Jack Abraham has a lot of confidence in what he’s building. Then again, you can’t be immodest or unsure of yourself if you’re going to bet exclusively on your own startups as an investor, which is precisely the model that Abraham.....»»
Atomic, which only funds the startups it launches, just closed its newest fund with $260 million
Jack Abraham has a lot of confidence in what he’s building. Then again, you can’t be immodest or unsure of yourself if you’re going to bet exclusively on your own startups as an investor, which is precisely the model that Abraham.....»»
Watch out, PayPal. Square just launched its own bank
Square, the financial payments firm run by Jack Dorsey, launched an in-house bank that it says will allow it to "operate more nimbly" in an increasingly crowded fintech market......»»
Square launches an in-house bank as fintech competition heats up
Square, the financial payments firm run by Jack Dorsey, launched an in-house bank that it says will allow it to "operate more nimbly" in an increasingly crowded fintech market......»»
The 2008 moment when triumph turned to torment for SpaceX
Flight Three of the Falcon 1 rocket could make or break the company. Enlarge / The launch of Flight Three of the Falcon 1 rocket looked promising at the beginning. (credit: Chris Thompson/SpaceX) This is an excerpt from chapter eight of the boo.....»»