Since the dawn of the new millennium, California has increasingly been cast in two wildly different films. In one, it is a smoldering dystopia. Broke. Burning. Unaffordable. Fleeing residents in rented U-Hauls headed for Texas. In the other, it is a sun-drenched dreamscape. The birthplace of the internet. The laboratory of climate action. A place so dynamic it could stand alone as a nation state. Both movies contain truth. Neither is the whole story. If California were a country, it would ran...

When I was in my early twenties, I bought a small van with my then girlfriend and traveled across Australia free camping. I remember being struck by the plight of the native Aboriginal communities, how they couldn’t adapt to modern Western society, often ending up jobless, alcoholic, and on state benefits (Simon Reeve covers this topic in his Australia series.) But the interesting thing I noticed about my response to the natives, was that I identified with their plight much more intimately th...

In some ways, the findings of this walkability study should feel intuitively obvious. But at the same time, it's an important reminder that we are all products of our environment. If you grow up and live in a city like San Francisco, there's going to be a higher probability that you will choose a career in something tech-related versus if you're in, say, Scranton, Pennsylvania. If you grow up and live in a city like Copenhagen, there's going to be a higher probability that you will cycle vers...

NFTs evolved from status symbols to digital trust infrastructure. Learn how Nodle's network and Click camera app use C2PA content credentials to prove media provenance and fight deepfakes.

From the last week of January through the first week of February, the hub became a temporary home for the Open Source Village — two weeks of coworking, gatherings, and spontaneous collaboration around FOSDEM. We welcomed more than 400 visitors and built a team of nearly 20 volunteers who helped shape a space where meetups, conferences, board game nights, a dedicated kids village, city and nature walks, and daily coworking could live side by side. On Sunday, we opened the doors to families and...

Vitalik Buterin outlined a five-year cypherpunk-principled roadmap to make upgrades across the state tree, Lean consensus, ZK-EVM verification, and VM.

We announced the first show in our upcoming Tokyo event series on April 10th with.. you guessed it... Mr. Daniel Allan!Daniel Allan CIRCUS Tokyoダニエル・アランがCIRCUS TOKYOでの2回目の公演のために東京に戻ってきます。\ この1年で彼のキャリアは大きく飛躍し、「Bet You Didn't Need」「In the Middle」「I Just Need」、そして最新のバイラルヒット「Luv Sosa」のベースフリップなどで注目を集めています。 これまでにSan Holo、Louis the Child、Tiffany Dayといったアーティストともコラボレーションを行い、エモーショナルなダンスミュージックと重厚なベースサウンドを融合させた独自のスタイルを確立しています。 Coop Recordsは彼の最新プロジェクトでレーベルを務めており、新しいイベントシリーズの第一弾として、再び日本に迎えられることをこれ以上ないほど楽しみ...

Strata is implementing an update to the yield distribution parameters of the Ethena USDe market to reflect a materially improved underlying risk environment.

There’s something powerful about artists who choose their own path and decide that building their dream is worth more than clocking in for someone else’s. For our Lucky Number 7 Artist Spotlight, we’re featuring an artist whose name alone carries the energy of growth, abundance, and life. Ekinusu, better known in the art world as 0ffline. She is a visionary creator blending spirituality, symbolism, and cosmic depth into minimalist surrealist works that feel like transmissions from another dim...