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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company is taking bids for a trip of a lifetime. On Wednesday, the aerospace manufacturer announced it was auctioning off a single seat for its first-ever space tourism trip aboard the New Shepard. The five-week public auction is divided into three separate phases; the first of which is a sealed online auction that runs through May […]
Twitter and Billboard have joined forces to create a real-time music chart powered by social media engagement. The online platform announced the partnership Wednesday, during its Digital Content NewFronts presentation. Billboard explained the chart, dubbed the Billboard Hot Trending, will be a daily ranking of music-related trending topics, “including buzz around new releases, awards show, and festival moments, music nostalgia threads and […]
Meek Mill paid a pretty penny to alleviate his FOMO. On Tuesday afternoon, the Philadelphia rapper took to social media to announce he had purchased $50,000 worth of Dogecoin—a cryptocurrency that has experienced a massive surge this year, thanks in large part to Elon Musk’s co-sign. “I just grabbed some doge,” he tweeted. “I’m tired of missing out.” […]
Carole Baskin has join the growing list of celebrities who’ve launched digital currencies. On Tuesday, the Tiger King star formally announced her “fan token” called $CAT—an altcoin that is intended for supporters of her Big Cat Rescue animal sanctuary. Baskin emphasizes the coin is not intended for investment, but rather “a purr-ency of our fans to show their love […]
Max Hodak, co-founder of Neuralink, has left the company. Over the weekend, Hodak—who founded the neurotechnology company alongside Elon Musk and others back in 2016—announced his exit. Per Hodak, he’s actually been away from the company for several weeks now. “Some personal news,” Hodak said in a tweet on Saturday. “I am no longer at […]
NASA is taking the “better safe than sorry” approach. Earlier this week, the space agency kicked off a five-day “tabletop exercise” that simulates a hypothetical asteroid impact on Earth—a scenario that reportedly remains very unlikely at this point. The exercise, which is being lead by Center for Near Earth Object Studies, aims to test how experts and agencies […]
Zoë Roth, popularly known as the girl in the “Disaster Girl” meme, has sold the image to the popular meme as an NFT for almost $500,000, the New York Times reports. The image was bought by a Dubai-based music production company known as 3F Music, which spent $411,000 for the image from the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme in April. When asked to explain […]
In what might be one of the most bizarre ways to catch a felony, a Texas woman is being charged for not returning a VHS tape in Oklahoma 20 years ago. According to KMOV, Caron McBride said she was shocked to learn that a VHS tape she forgot to return would catch up to her. “The […]
Eminem is getting in on the NFT action. On Thursday, the hip-hop legend announced the launch of Shady Con, a digital festival that gives fans the opportunity to own a Shady-approved NFT collectible. The drop, presented in collaboration with Nifty Gateway, will was inspired by Em’s passions for comic books, trading cards, and toys from his childhood, […]
Instagram has announced new features aimed at protecting users from seeing abusive DMs while also providing the ability to prevent a blocked user from attempting to contact you via a new account. On Wednesday, the Facebook-owned social media platform shared an extended blog post detailing the latest updates and describing the combatting of abuse as […]
