Science & Technology

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are starting to create series and new business franchises around student-aged athletes in both high school and college, now that the NCAA is allowing these players to monetize themselves in name, image, and likeness deals. There is a new cohort of public figures that marketers can now…

I'm not sure if this is a brilliant marketing strategy or what, but this music video for Sarah Brand's Red Dress is making the rounds on the internet and everybody has understandably started dunking on it. If you watch it you'll immediately understand why, because it's absolutely one of the worst things I've ever seen/heard/experienced…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Horizon Blockchain Games has raised $4.5 million to further develop its blockchain-based gaming ecosystem around games such as Skyweaver. Toronto-based Horizon Blockchain Games views itself as both a game company and a Web3 wallet and platform for blockchain technology. The funding comes from…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Livepeer has raised $20 million for its decentralized video transcoding network built on the Ethereum blockchain. It’s another sign that blockchain, the transparent and secure digital ledger behind cryptocurrency, is inspiring a sea change in computing toward decentralization. DCG led the round with participation…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Is the world ready for deeper and more comprehensive reporting on environmental, social, and governmental (ESG) matters? Diginex just announced a $6 million bet that it is. Today it’s closing a series A round led by Fitch Ventures, the equity investment arm of…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees joined a walkout today to protest the company’s initially harsh response to allegations of sex discrimination at the company that makes games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. The backlash against the company’s stance was…

Green tree frog. Credit: Jodi Rowley, Author provided Over the past few weeks, we've received a flurry of emails from concerned people who've seen sick and dead frogs across eastern Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. One person wrote: "About a month ago, I noticed the Green Tree Frogs living around our home showing signs…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are huge differences in species numbers among the major branches of the tree of life. Some groups of organisms have many species, while others have few. For example, animals, plants and fungi each have over 100,000 known species, but most others—such as many algal and bacterial groups—have 10,000 or less.…

This representative dynamic image shows the base sample, emerging jet, no-groove control region and static calibration foils. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have experimentally tested the predictions of a 2020 study that computationally investigated the effect of melting on shock driven metal microjets. That earlier work predicted that melting…

Illustration of gas-giant planet COCONUTS-2b. Credit: B. Bays (SOEST/UH) Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes. A University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate student has beaten the odds and discovered a directly imaged exoplanet, and…