Largest Japanese Bank MUFG Projects to Offer Financial Services in Metaverse by 2023
MUFG, the biggest bank in Japan, is projecting to offer financial services through the metaverse in 2023. The financial giant has partnered with ANA Holdings, a holdings consortium focused on air transportation companies, to be part of ANA’s Granwhale metaverse, and explore the possibility of selling financial products on this platform next year. MUFG Prepares to Enter the Metaverse The biggest financial institution in Japan, MUFG, is...
Crypto Market Rout Fuels Global Exchange Volumes — Kraken, Coinbase Report Connectivity and Latency Delays
Amid the market carnage on Tuesday, Nov. 8, the top ten cryptocurrency exchanges have seen trade volumes soar. During the 24-hour period on Tuesday, the top five exchanges alone recorded more than $60 billion in trade volume. Out of the top ten crypto exchanges by trade volume, exchanges saw increases between 126% to 305% during the past day. While the exchange volumes soared, the trading platforms Coinbase and Kraken reported the...
Filmmakers Win $4.2m Piracy Damages from Defunct VPN Hosting Company
Copyright holders have tried a wide variety of options to tackle online piracy over the years, including through direct legal action More recently we have seen lawsuits against people who allegedly downloaded and shared pirated content, but operators and developers of pirate services have also been sued. A group of US-based independent movie companies has expanded its legal reach by going after third-party intermediaries. The makers...
Pirate IPTV Service Must Pay $15.7m But Court Rejects ‘Overbroad’ Injunction
In September 2021, U.S. broadcaster DISH Network filed a copyright infringement complaint in a Michigan court targeting two sets of defendants. Atlas Electronics, a Michigan-based retailer of unauthorized IPTV services, and company owner Alaa Al-Emara made up the first set. The second comprised iStar Company and owner Ahmed Karim, the suppliers of iStar set-top boxes and operators of ‘Online TV’, the iStar IPTV service resold by...
Why sysadmins should choose Awesome window manager on Linux
Why sysadmins should choose Awesome window manager on Linux Seth Kenlon Wed, 11/09/2022 – 03:00 Awesome is a window manager for the Linux desktop. A “window manager” is a graphical interface that primarily (if not literally) just manages the drawing and arrangement of windows. In practice, even the most rudimentary of window managers actually provides a little more than just the ability to draw a window. Most also...
