Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Crypto investor Vignesh Sundaresan: ‘It’s the NFT that changed the world’

 


The entrepreneur on spending $69m on a non-fungible token artwork — and how an avatar helped him circumvent the status quo


How is your website impacting the planet


Website MEdia Dragon Carbon Calculator. The new data shows carbon impacts being roughly one third of those reported by the V1 carbon calculator, partly thanks to more robust data and partly due to the efficiency of web technology increasing rapidly over the past few years. V1 used data from 2012 whereas V2 uses data from 2017/18. The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that’s more than the entire United Kingdom. From data centres to transmission networks to the devices that we hold in our hands, it is all consuming electricity, and in turn producing carbon emissions. The average web page tested produces 1.76 grams CO2 per page view. For a website with 10,000 monthly page views, that’s 211 kg CO2 per year…”

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Hero rat that sniffed out over 70 landmines retiresThe Hill 


Fruit flies get ‘hangry’ without food, study showsSky News


‘Deliberately Patient’ Heisenberg Report. On May’s Job Report.


G7 set to strike deal on global corporate taxation FT


Self-Driving Cars Could Be Decades Away, No Matter What Elon Musk Said WSJ. As NC readers will not be surprised to learn.