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Crypto & Blockchain

Introducing Hidely: The Reliable Free Bitcoin Wallet

In the ever-expanding world of cryptocurrency, owning a secure and convenient Bitcoin wallet is essential. With numerous options available, finding one that combines reliability, ease of use, and affordability can be challenging. Enter Hidely, the [...]
Crypto & Blockchain

What are stablecoins? A blockchain expert explains

Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency linked to an asset like the U.S. dollar that doesn’t change much in value. The majority of the dozens of stablecoins that currently exist use the dollar as their benchmark asset, but many [...]
Crypto & Blockchain

The metaverse is money and crypto is king – why you’ll be on a blockchain when you’re virtual-world hopping

You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces – the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a fundamental but slightly more cryptic [...]
Crypto & Blockchain

What are NFTs and why are people paying millions for them?

Last week, Christie’s sold a digital collage of images called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for US$69.3 million dollars. This week, Elon Musk said he’s selling a tweet of his as an NFT, which contains a [...]
Crypto & Blockchain

NFT performance art: Corporations could capitalize on protest

Russian artist Petr Davydtchenko made what what he claims was the first performance art NFT in February. According to an article in The Art Newspaper, in a digital recording, Davydtchenko “eats a live bat in front of the European Parliament [...]

‘Social profit orientation’ can help companies and nonprofits alike do more good in the world

September 4, 2024

Economist Milton Friedman’s influential maxim, that a company’s sole obligation is to maximize profits, is [...]
Study highlights importance of social media influencers in information dissemination during mpox outbreak

September 4, 2024

A recent study shows social media influencers are more important than previously thought when it [...]
Companies with emotionally intelligent managers make more money, research shows

September 3, 2024

Companies with emotionally intelligent managers are not only nicer places to work, but also make [...]
People in financial distress behave more morally, says study

September 3, 2024

A new study conducted at Reichman University, in collaboration with Aarhus University in Denmark, challenges [...]
Research explores whether ‘everything as a service’ will live up to its great expectations

September 3, 2024

It’s no secret that the composition of the American economy is changing. As the manufacturing [...]
Going down: A drop in rankings matters more than a rise for organizations, study finds

September 3, 2024

People love rankings—but do they really mean all that much? Sometimes they do, depending on [...]
Miscategorization fuels discrimination within organizations and workplaces, say researcher

September 3, 2024

How does discrimination arise? A new paper by Muhammed Alperen Yasar, Ph.D. student at Ca’ [...]
Simulation study explores how gift giving drives social change

September 3, 2024

New findings provide quantitative criteria for classifying social organizations in human history, together with potential [...]
The right to be wrong: How context or human rationality may influence our decisions

September 3, 2024

Conventionally, decision-making is portrayed as a rational process: individuals calculate potential risks and aim to [...]
Poor quality of employment is responsible for UK workers’ reliance on foodbanks, study shows

September 3, 2024

University of Liverpool researchers have published the first-ever peer-reviewed study of workers using foodbanks in [...]

How thinking about death—mortality salience—drives early Halloween shopping and retail trends

September 2, 2024

It’s becoming as much of a tradition as costumed trick-or-treaters and skeletons crawling across lawns [...]

Queer tabletop roleplaying games provide valuable lessons that even ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ can learn from

September 2, 2024

By studying how some tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) are putting queerness front and center, Northeastern [...]

Plenty of ups and downs are key to a great story, research finds

August 30, 2024

Since at least Aristotle, writers and scholars have debated what makes for a great story. [...]

More frequent financial reporting benefits investors

August 30, 2024

When it comes to financial reporting, how much information is too much? Public companies in [...]

AI can mitigate bias against women in loan decisions and boost lenders’ profits and reputations

August 30, 2024

Recent research from the University of Bath shows discrimination against women worsens if Artificial Intelligence [...]

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