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Virtual Land Just Sold For 4 ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $8,122, which is 2.83x the current floor price of 1.237 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Benzinga

Meta Opens First Physical Store

Facebook parent Meta has opened its first physical store - in Burlingame, California - to showcase its hardware products like virtual and augmented reality goggles and glasses. The store, which is open to the public as of Monday, is made for people who want to test out products like Ray-Ban…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Josh Frydenberg for PM’: stories in Chinese circulating on WeChat are positively gushing over the treasurer

Praise for the ‘prince of tennis’ and ‘super scholar’ is targeting the Kooyong community whose votes will be critical on election day

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Canadian order on intermediaries a big boost for Indian news outlets

Rule to ensure platforms like Facebook and Google pay news publishers fairly for their content

The Hindu

Face-scanner Clearview agrees to limits in court settlement

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to restrict the use of its massive collection of face images to settle allegations that it collected people’s photos without their consent

The Independent UK

Hacienda 40th anniversary rave tickets to go on sale - and how to watch 8 hour live stream

Tickets for the 40th anniversary rave in the car park at the original club site will go on sale - or you can watch a full live stream

Manchester Evening News

Why social media firms will struggle to follow new EU rules on illegal content

Social media allowed us to connect with one another like never before. But it came with a price – it handed a megaphone to everyone, including terrorists, child abusers and hate groups. EU institutions recently reached agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims to “make sure that what…

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Man stumbles across 'dead man's fingers' stretching from ground in chilling discovery

It turns out that the horrifying formation that Mike Roberts had stumbled upon was just a rare fungus called dead man's fingers which he saw poking through the greenery

Daily Mirror

How to get a free paint profile picture for Facebook

If you're on Facebook, you will have seen the paintings popping up on friends' profiles

Manchester Evening News

Governments and Big Tech in playoff for world power

Big Tech companies and the Chinese and US governments are embroiled in a complex relationship of harmony and conflict. We are all at the mercy of the outcome.

360info

Thousands of donkey skins listed for sale online

The trade is estimated to involve the trafficking and slaughter of 4.8 million donkeys annually, according to the Donkey Sanctuary charity.

The Independent UK

Women aren't objects

In Thailand's social hierarchy, women are considered lower than men. Should it then come as a surprise when an elderly rector of a leading university with a fetish for snapping photos of pretty air hostesses while they work -- without their consent -- decides to post the pictures on his…

Bangkok Post

Paul Heaton puts "cash behind the bar" at 60 pubs to celebrate his 60th birthday - here's where in Manchester

The Beautiful South star is celebrating his 60th birthday in style - and wants fans to join him. Here's the list in full of pubs where his cash will be behind the bar on Monday

Manchester Evening News

Edinburgh mum turns lockdown activity with kids into successful business

Sophie said that she tried out tie dyeing with her kids during the first lockdown in 2020 and fell in love with the art. She has since turned it into a successful business.

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Glasgow Live

Facebook to ditch Nearby Friends and Weather Alerts features this month

It has been confirmed that Facebook are set to ditch both of the popular features this month according to the social media giant, with Nearby Friends and Weather Alerts no longer being used by the end of May.

WEKU

Listen up! Here are the finalists of the 2022 Student Podcast Challenge

The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR's contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people.

Pedestrian.tv

Leaks Suggest Zuck Was Fully Aware He Was Zucking Us By Blocking Emergency FB Pages Last Year

At the time, Facebook claimed that blocking emergency pages was "inadvertent".

ABC News

Federal election: Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese face off in second leaders' debate — as it happened

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have gone head-to-head in the second leaders' debate discussing issues including national security, aged care and cost of living.

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Bringing order to the chaos of reality… Jarvis Cocker interviews six collectors

What impulse unites a collector of ceramic cats with someone who gathers broken records or sweet wrappers?

Manchester Evening News

From moneysaving apps to switching the boiler off at night, your tips to help save money

“Now, I only switch the boiler on when I actually need hot water to wash up, take a bath etc, then switch it off"

ABC News

Ukraine-Russia war: Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing Luhansk school where 90 were sheltering — as it happened

Ukrainian authorities say they have rescued 30 people from the ruins of a school in the Luhansk region, where civilians were sheltering.

The Guardian - AU

‘I am not a Nazi’: Liberal Democrats candidate ‘deeply regrets’ white supremacist Facebook posts

Anthony Bull cited the works of US terrorist David Lane and wrote ‘victory’ over Indigenous Australians should be celebrated

The Canberra Times

Trash, treasure and everything in between in the Buy Nothing world

Welcome to the hyper-local world of Buy Nothing, where a suburb divided is a community strengthened.

ABC News

Political candidates are campaigning hard this election to court Indian-Australian voters. Are their strategies paying off?

Scott Morrison is not the only politician trying to influence the Indian-Australian voter. Candidates across the spectrum are seeing Australia's Indian diaspora as a demographic of growing influence — and working hard to woo them.

Daily Record

Facebook to axe a number of location-tracking features from app later this month

Millions of Facebook users have been notified of the changes coming into force from May 31.

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