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Mark Zuckerberg is looking to reduce his platforms’ dependence on advertising by introducing virtual coins referred to as “Zuck bucks” which are seemingly named after the Meta founder, chairman, and CEO reported The Guardian on Thursday. The new in-app tokens would be controlled by the company and would function in a manner similar to the Robux currency found in the popular children’s game Roblox.

Digital tokens that diversify income sources

Meta’s new digital tokens and “creator coins” will serve to diversify income sources and refresh the platform’s user base, which is constantly competing with new firms in the field such as TikTok. Some of the ideas that the company has conceived of include “social tokens” or “reputation tokens” which would work on a reward basis and “creator coins” ideal for influencers on Instagram.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Marcin Glowacki, who previously worked at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, has made an impressive discovery from 5 billion light-years away, according to a statement released by the institution on Thursday.

Using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, the researchers discovered a powerful radio-wave laser, called a ‘megamaser’, that is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected. Its light has traveled 58 thousand billion billion (58 followed by 21 zeros) kilometers to Earth.

When galaxies collide…

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Agricultural PV (or agrivoltaics) is the simultaneous use of land for both agriculture and solar power generation. This year‘s Intersolar Europe in Munich will put a major focus on this topic.

Hypersonic air travel promises point-to-point passenger and freight interplanetary connectivity. The market is heating up.

Metaverse is the internet’s next big thing. Soon people will be preparing for metaverse jobs that will prove beneficial for tech enthusiasts who are interested in this domain.

John Abbruzzese, On using the multiverse to avoid the paradoxes of time travel, Analysis, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 36–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/61.1.36.

GitHub can now block and alert you of pull requests that introduce new dependencies impacted by known supply chain vulnerabilities.

This is achieved by adding the new Dependency Review GitHub Action to an existing workflow in one of your projects. You can do it through your repository’s Actions tab under Security or straight from the GitHub Marketplace.

It works with the help of an API endpoint that will help you understand the security impact of dependency changes before adding them to your repository at every pull request.

The Neuro-Network.

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As with so much in physics, it has to do with Einstein’s theory of general relativity.