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Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen back $30M fund exclusively investing in NFT art

TechCrunch

“NFT assets are what we think are going to be a really big deal over the next decade, like orders of magnitude larger than they are today, because NFTs give us a digitally native way to invest in culture at internet scale,” Goldberg tells TechCrunch in an interview. In the past 30 days, the OpenSea platform has done $2.3

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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Bitcoin’s bid to become the “one chain to rule them all”

TechCrunch

Its status stems, in part, from the advantage of having been the first cryptocurrency token on a public blockchain. . But as new blockchains continue to spring up, and after last year’s “DeFi” summer that brought new traction to Ethereum, Bitcoin investors have had to start watching their backs. More than just an asset.

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Free Programming Courses from Harvard, MIT, Microsoft and more (Sponsored)

David Walsh

The nonprofit site offers 2000 online courses from 140 institutions worldwide. Along with the C programming language comes Linux, an essential operating system that powers almost all supercomputers and most of the servers worldwide, as well as all Android devices and most “Internet of Things” devices. Courses are free to try.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Despite not having electricity or internet access half of the time, the company keeps working and growing, saying it has sustainable 50% quarter-over-quarter growth. The ultimate 4g lte modem for fast internet anywhere in the world. ELVTR Is an online learning company offering professional courses in the US. nect WORLD Inc.

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

TechCrunch

All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson on ‘the conversation no one has during an upmarket’ Internet is the new Miami. Banana Capital’s debut fund is for internet-first founders.

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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This algorithm has been designed for CPUs with limited capabilities–specifically CPUs used in “Internet of Things” devices. Fastly’s Fast Forward Program provides free CDN services to open source projects and nonprofits that make the world a better place. California’s DMV is putting car titles on a blockchain.