The future of retail is coming. It won’t have cashiers. More retailers are experimenting with self-checkout options, including apps that allow for customers to scan and pay for items with their phones. Nadja Sayej 2.14.22 10:29 PM
Opinion: Non-Fungible Olive Gardens started as a joke, but here's why the project has serious implications Satire or not, the NFTs (which can come with free "breadstick" tokens) have real-world impact. That might be why the restaurant chain is cracking down. Joon Ian Wong 1.24.22 4:55 PM
10 venture capitalists who made bold bets and scored massive returns From Jim Goetz to Peter Thiel, Peter Levine and Masayoshi Son, these investors won big by getting in early. Othmane Zizi 1.20.22 8:08 PM
Even funerals aren’t safe from disruption — meet the woman shaking up the $20 billion death industry Felicia Barlow Clar helps people save money and arrange creative funeral alternatives, such as a “celebration of life” or having ashes shot into the sky as fireworks. Christie Smythe 1.14.22 7:23 PM
VR development, "asset creation," NFTs: who's winning and losing these battles in building the metaverse Some companies are surging ahead while others fall behind in these spaces before the metaverse is even built. Othmane Zizi 1.11.22 10:11 PM
Opinion: Outages show the internet is fragile — here’s why blockchain will make it stronger The centralized nature of the internet means it doesn’t take much for one engineer (or one hacker) to bring down a whole web ecosystem for a day. Web3 could change all that, though. Joon Ian Wong 1.6.22 8:12 PM