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Gucci, adidas, and others are pushing the metaverse towards digital fashion

The second annual Metaverse Fashion Week event, set in Decentraland’s Luxury District, featured more than 60 brands, from iconic names like DKNY to smaller web3-native upstarts like DressX. While attendance went down, sales went up, and alarm bells signalling the start of the digital fashion era went off. Randy Ginsburg explores what the future of fashion holds and how we can expect to get there.

Extended reality is going mainstream by embracing art

As Justin Melillo, co-founder of world-building platform Mona, puts it, “There are really big numbers spending more and more time inside headsets.” If society has ever been ready to explore art through the lens of technology, it’s now. Clovis McEvoy talks with the builders who are uniting creative communities and exploring the artistic metaverse.

Amidst financial crisis, crypto is empowering women in Latin America

Latin America faces some of the highest inflation rates in the world. An ever increasing amount of the continent’s governments are embracing crypto to help tackle this issue. Meanwhile, crypto is providing a new way for Latin American women to gain financial independence. Preetam Kaushik explores the reasons behind the initiative and speaks with some of the companies driving it forward.

neurocolor’s art gives you the psychedelic experience you never knew you needed

After graduating from a traditional art school, neurocolor began to create art that went against everything he had learnt there. But he discovered that there wasn’t a market for it. That was before he discovered NFTs. The Mexican artist tells Nina Knaack about finding unexplored relations between visual styles, and why web3 is the perfect place for avant-garde art to thrive and grow.

Here’s why teachers are taking their students into the metaverse

Educational institutions are entering the metaverse, using fully immersive experiences paired with virtual reality tech to engage students in schools across the world. The potential to reach hundreds of millions of learners worldwide is making their investment well worth it, as educators embrace extended reality to reach them.

Defining the metaverse — and problems with the media that write about it

The metaverse is the latest in a long line of futuristic ideas to get misrepresented by the tech media. Technology coverage needs to do more than hate on the subjects it writes about, argues Leo Nasskau.

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Artificial intelligence has shot into the global discourse after increasingly fast progress in the field. That progress has come too fast, argue a group of AI researchers and business leaders led by Elon Musk, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steve Wozniak, creating the potential for an ever accelerating and ever riskier race to deploy advanced AI systems that society already does not fully understand.

Spreading her wings: how Tina Eisen is redefining beauty through macro photography

An admirer of the obscure, Tina Eisen is well-known for her exceptional macro self-portraits. Having accumulated more than 10 years of experience in the commercial beauty industry, she explores unconventional concepts in her personal projects. She talks with Nina Knaack about where her love for intricate detail comes from and how photographing herself has given her more artistic freedom.

How blockchain is fixing the $2 trillion problem in business financing

The business sector faces a finance gap worth $2 trillion, while businesses around the world are looking to borrow the same amount. But financing companies aren’t helping them. With blockchain, businesses can reach those companies willing to support them, and the technology ensures that everything is transparent and simple. Inês Bragança Gaspar examines how blockchain is moving financing forward.

Inês Bragança Gaspar

March 28, 2023

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Gucci, adidas, and others are pushing the metaverse towards digital fashion

Extended reality is going mainstream by embracing art

Amidst financial crisis, crypto is empowering women in Latin America

neurocolor’s art gives you the psychedelic experience you never knew you needed

Here’s why teachers are taking their students into the metaverse

Defining the metaverse — and problems with the media that write about it

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Spreading her wings: how Tina Eisen is redefining beauty through macro photography

How blockchain is fixing the $2 trillion problem in business financing

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Gucci, adidas, and others are pushing the metaverse towards digital fashion

Extended reality is going mainstream by embracing art

Amidst financial crisis, crypto is empowering women in Latin America

neurocolor’s art gives you the psychedelic experience you never knew you needed

Here’s why teachers are taking their students into the metaverse

Defining the metaverse — and problems with the media that write about it

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Spreading her wings: how Tina Eisen is redefining beauty through macro photography

How blockchain is fixing the $2 trillion problem in business financing

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