SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The chip industry is breathing a sigh of relief over the aborted purchase of ARM Ltd by U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp but the firms and their shareholders are left with challenges the deal would have addressed. Announced in 2020, Nvidia’s plan to buy Britain’s Arm from Japan’s […]
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By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – As bitcoin drifts towards mainstream maturity in 2022, daring crypto investors are eyeing up new sources of explosive action: “altcoins” that power online games and worlds. But, be warned, the foothills of the unformed metaverse are no place for the faint-hearted. […]
LONDON (Reuters) – On Jan. 12, an image of a computer-generated pixelated person was sold for about $50.6 million worth of cryptocurrency on a new online marketplace that caters for non-fungible tokens. Five minutes later, the same “Meebit” NFT – a virtual character clad in purple shorts and green sneakers […]
Pope, Smith and Kohler glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea Embayment are the focus of ongoing research that employs synthetic aperture radar interferometry, an advanced remote imaging system. Researchers are finding the glaciers retreating at rates never recorded before. Above, Pope Glacier with Mount Murphy in background. Photo credit: NASA […]
By Julia Love and Helen Coster (Reuters) – With just weeks to go before an expected launch, Donald Trump’s new media venture is trying to strike a delicate balance with its app: giving Trump’s base the freedom to express themselves, without running afoul of Apple and Google’s app store policies. […]
(HealthDay) MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A motorcycle crash left Michel Roccati with complete lower-body paralysis from a devastating spinal cord injury. But now, the Italian native is walking again, courtesy of groundbreaking Swiss research that restores motor function within one day by means of carefully targeted electrical […]