Metaverse is a connected, persistent virtual reality where we will live digital lives alongside our real lives. Superstars, including Snoop Dog, have already snapped up plots of virtual land. The average price for the smallest plot of land available to buy on Decentraland or the Sandbox was under $1,000. Today it’s sitting at around $13,000, so is this another chance to pick up the newest digital assets before they blow up?
Nvidia debuted its latest self-driving car technology platform, Drive Hyperion 9, which will be used by EV makers Lucid Motors and China's BYD. The company says its Automotive business has a revenue pipeline of $11 billion over the next six years.
A South Africa court has ordered Amazon's construction of a 4 billionrand ($300million) headquarters to pause over concerns that the company defiled sacred land in South African over concerns of indigenous people. The court also ordered the project to conduct meaningful engagement and consult with the people who are the site's original inhabitants, which is located in the area of the site.
Microsoft has updated its translation service with new machine learning techniques. The new models can translate between a large number of languages at once. They are based on a technique called the “spare Mixture of Experts” approach. Microsoft says the new models often score between 3% and 15% better than previous models.
Yuga Labs has raised $450 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation. The company is the owner of three of the biggest NFT brands on the market. It plans to use the money to build a media empire around NFTs, starting with games and its own metaverse project.
The NFT hype has begun to die down, with the search trend for the term 'NFT' dropping. This is in line with the prediction of experts who believed the NFT bubble would burst someday. However, the impact of digital ownership won't be lost to certain domains and a handful of NFT use cases will continue to exist.
NVIDIA unveiled its first-ever datacenter CPU at its 2022 GPU Technology Conference. The Grace CPU Superchip is actually two Grace CPU chips connected via NVLink technology. It integrates 144 ARM cores into a single socket and consumes approximately 500 watts of power. The company also announced its highly anticipated Hopper GPU architecture.
Gartner VP of midsize enterprise security Paul Furtado says companies aren't doing fundamentals well. 56 percent of attacks exploit known vulnerabilities where patches have been available for more than 90 days, he says. Data protection should be using immutable backup technology and protecting all critical data, he adds.
The new architecture brings cloud services from all of the major HPE infrastructure groups from storage to networking to compute onto a single platform. GreenLake, HPE.com also provides seamless integration to manage the complete hybrid estate from HPE GreenLake to all the three major public clouds: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
President Joe Biden said intelligence indicated a growing Russian cyber threat to the US. He said Russia was "exploring" cyber attack, but the US would use "every tool" to prevent and respond to such a move. The cyber security world has been braced for some sort of large scale cyber-attack from Russia since tensions began building between Russia and Ukraine.
Many Apple services, including the App Store, Apple Arcade, Music, iMessage and Maps experienced outages on Monday. Service was restored by about 3:45 p.m. ET. It's not clear what caused the outage and an Apple spokesperson declined to comment.