Big Time Studios Aims to Bring NFTs to the Masses, Set to Raise $21 Million in Funding
The Los Angeles-based company Big Time Studios has announced the company is set to raise $21 million in two funding rounds backed by a number of investors. The company’s founder Ari Meilich was the CEO and co-creator of the Ethereum metaverse Decentraland. Big Time Studios aims to bring non-fungible token (NFT) assets to the billion-dollar gaming industry. Multiplayer NFT Game Maker Big Time Studios to Raise $21M in Funding A...
WordPress Rejected 83% of all DMCA Takedown Notices Last Year
Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress.com, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders. Compared to other online services such as Google and Reddit, the numbers are relatively low. That said, there are some figures that clearly stand out. 50% Increase This week Automattic published its latest transparency report, revealing that it had processed 18,594 DMCA takedown notices during...
FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder’s Apple Account, Email Claims
As the world’s leading distributor of millions of otherwise ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”. At the same time as being loved by many academics and students, Sci-Hub has become public enemy #1 in publishing circles, with the major academic publishers doing everything in their power to shut the platform down, hinder access to it, and prevent its operator from communicating with the...
The Pirate Bay Promotes ‘Mysterious’ Digital Pirate Token (Updated)
The Pirate Bay has been both an early adopter and a pioneer when it comes to cryptocurrencies. (Update, there’s now a statement posted on The Pirate Bay, posted in full at the bottom of this article) More than eight years ago the torrent site added support for Bitcoin donations, with Litecoin and Monero following later. The Pirate Bay was also the first large website to start mining cryptocurrency by using the computing resources of...
3 Python 3.2 features that are still relevant today
This the third article in a series about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of those Python versions have been out for a while. For example, Python 3.2 was first released in 2011, yet some of the cool and useful features introduced in it are still underused. Here are three of them. argparse subcommands The argparse module first appeared in Python 3.2. There are many third-party modules for command-line...
