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Title: Start Your Hedging: LedgerX to Begin Trading Cryptocurrency Derivatives Excerpt: For the first time ever, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has given permission to a private company to exchange and clear any number of crypt…

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.

An overview of virtual worlds in these times of pandemic. Will the be a solution for musicians and performers or stay niche?

The IFTF explains how futurism can be used in times of pandemic

DeepMind got another breakthrough, this time with far reaching consequences, and inspired by gaming

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.

Even the Chinese warn for the social consequences of AI

Video-conferencing firm's clients include the US government, Amnesty International and Spotify. A Norwegian videoconferencing company whose technology is used by the US government, Amnesty International, Spotify and PayPal is seeking to raise $200m in what could be the largest software IPO in Scandinavia.

interesting for the diglife-folks.