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Is Metaverse a boom or a bubble?

There is hardly a day that goes by without a mention of the metaverse. Since Facebook’s brand name changed to Meta, the word has really caught on and everybody wants to be a part of it.

Mark Zuckerberg may have drawn the world’s attention to the metaverse but the digital world has been on the rise for quite some time. Minecraft, an online game, has been around since 2011, where not only does one get to stay in a digital world but also has the tools to build it around themselves. With their versions of the metaverse, what Meta and the others now want to do, is build up these worlds rapidly, so that people can just come and spend their time in there. ## Time is Money.

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A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of unit fractions.

Scientists in China have created a transistor using graphene and molybdenum disulfide with a gate length of just 0.34 nanometers. “We have realized the world’s smallest gate-length transistor,” says one of the paper’s authors, an electrical engineer at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Powerful tricks from computer science and cybernetics show how evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up by Michael Levin & Rafael Yuste + BIO.