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12 January 2024
The Bitcoin trends, ups and downs

The price of Bitcoin reached $45,045.36, reflecting a decrease of -5.68% in the last 24 hours. This was a highly volatile day for Bitcoin, it briefly surged above $49,000 before retracing to the $46,000 range by evening. Interestingly, the focal point of the day wasn't solely the cryptocurrency's price movement. The spotlight was on the […]

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6 January 2024
Walmart Metaverse experience: an immersive e-commerce and the collaboration with Unity

Walmart Inc. is using metaverse since a couple of years, bringing different perspectives and using new tools. “As we began to craft this experience, we listened to our growing community on the platform and found that they were seeking easier ways to discover experiences and virtual items,” Walmart Chief Marketing Officer William White said after […]

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29 December 2023
New York Times vs OpenAI and Microsoft: a growing conflict over generative AI use

The New York Times, one of the pillars of information in the United States, has cast a strong shadow on the Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) community by taking a firm stand against the use of its content to train artificial intelligence models. According to The Verge, the newspaper blocked OpenAI’s web crawler access to its […]

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27 December 2023
Blockchain and gaming: pay attention to those two

In 2023, blockchain gaming recorded investments of 2.3 billion dollars. Those data, provided by DappRadar, a monitoring platform for decentralized apps, shows that $600 million was invested in the blockchain gaming sector in the third quarter of 2023. Among investments in Q3 2023, $213 million went into the development of games and technologies related to […]

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20 December 2023
US Federal Court orders CZ to pay $150 million and Binance $2.7 billion as penalty for anti-money laundering violation

ILLINOIS - The crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, was ordered respectively to pay $2.7 billion and $150 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for anti-money laundering violation. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has officially approved a consent order against Binance and its former […]

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13 December 2023
Crypto trusts, Google to update its Ads policy

Changes for Google's cryptocurrency advertising policy. A new era of advertising for “Crypto Trusts” is coming with the update of policy that will permit the use of the trusts related to cryptocurrencies. The new policy will take effect on January 29 2024, ahead of the expected approval of Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). That is to […]

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7 December 2023
Google's Gemini enters the AI market with a completely new model

Once upon a time there was "Bard", the Mountain View Company first AI, conceived as ChatGpt's competitor. Now Google is ready to embrace a new AI era and has just presented, on December 6th, a new model of artificial intelligence: Gemini. Gemini it is capable of interpreting texts, images, audio, video and code. The new […]

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5 December 2023
Société Générale released its first digital green bond on public blockchain

FRANCE - The company Societe Generale has issued its first digital green bond, leading an important step toward a blockchain system working side by side with the classical finance. The bond is a Security Token directly registered by SG-FORGE on the public Ethereum blockchain. Société Générale is the fourth bank for capitalization of banking groups […]

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4 December 2023
Boies Schiller Flexner Opens New Office in Rome

December 1, 2023: Boies Schiller Flexner today announced that the firm has opened an office in Rome, with Natalia Bagnato and Simone Grassi joining as partners. The Rome office is the firm’s second within the European Union and arrives two years after the firm launched BSF Italy in Milan. The addition of partners Natalia Bagnato […]

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