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Pudgy Penguins plans to launch an early-access version of Pudgy World, an interactive digital playground for Pudgy Penguins NFT holders, before April 2024 (Elizabeth Napolitano/CoinDesk)
Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: Pudgy Penguins plans to launch an early-access version of Pudgy World, an interactive digital playground for…
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A look at China's global satellite internet ambitions in competition with Starlink, including homegrown startups that experts say will ultimately be state-owned (Meaghan Tobin/Rest of World)
Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: A look at China’s global satellite internet ambitions in competition with Starlink, including homegrown…
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A profile of Bela Bajaria, Netflix's global head of TV who leads its hyper-aggressive strategy to adapt successful show formats to different parts of the world (Rachel Syme/New Yorker)
Rachel Syme / New Yorker: A profile of Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of TV who leads its hyper-aggressive strategy…
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A profile of Shaik Salauddin, an Uber driver turned union leader, who has become a quasi-celebrity in India after fighting for gig worker rights in the country (Varsha Bansal/Rest of World)
Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: A profile of Shaik Salauddin, an Uber driver turned union leader, who has become…
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Scams have started impacting Amazon sellers across Pakistan, which Marketplace Pulse says has the third-highest number of registered sellers on the platform (Rest of World)
Rest of World: Scams have started impacting Amazon sellers across Pakistan, which Marketplace Pulse says has the third-highest number of…
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What 2023 may bring for crypto regulation in the US and around the world, as bankruptcies stretch into the new year, attracting lawmakers and criminal probes (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: What 2023 may bring for crypto regulation in the US and around the world, as bankruptcies…
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A look at the use of AI to design and test games, such as to tune difficulty, find world geometry flaws, and sniff out situations that make it impossible to win (Matthew Smith/Wired)
Matthew Smith / Wired: A look at the use of AI to design and test games, such as to tune…
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A look at Embracer Group, which owns more video game studios than any other company in the world, overseeing 237 games being developed across 132 studios (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)
Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times: A look at Embracer Group, which owns more video game studios than any other…
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Mastodon's decentralized nature raises concerns about the liability of users running their own instances, under copyright and privacy laws around the world (Amanda Hoover/Wired)
Amanda Hoover / Wired: Mastodon’s decentralized nature raises concerns about the liability of users running their own instances, under copyright…
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Sources: Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou say they got COVID-19 at the plant in December and some were asked to keep working; one said he was dissuaded from testing (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Sources: Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou say they got COVID-19 at the plant in December…
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