Welcome back to V3RSD and thank you for being here! This is Subnation’s weekly roundup of relevant, interesting, and hard-hitting stories from the web3, gaming, and tech spaces. The following five articles cover the topics from our 5Cs: Culture, Content, Community, Conversation, and Commerce. Enjoy, and let us know what you think by leaving a comment!
Snoop Dogg’s Bored Ape has been busy! Dr. Bombay now has seven flavors of ice cream available in 3,500 Walmart stores. The line features flavor names like Bonus Track Brownie, Rollin’ In the Dough, and S’more Vibes.
Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video. If you’ve enabled the AI-based SGE feature in Search Labs, you’ll now start to see more multimedia in the colorful summary box at the top of your search results. According to the Verge, Google is no longer simply trying to find good links for you every time you search — it’s trying to synthesize and generate relevant, true, helpful information.
Binance announced that its yearly “Blockchain Week” will be taking place in Istanbul, Turkey this time around. Attendees are expected to come from all over the world, and those who cannot will be able to watch on Binance Live.
Twitter Blue (which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X Blue) now includes the option to hide the notorious blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps.
According to CNBC, tech companies shed more than 386,000 jobs last year. In the first half of this year, that number is climbing. While layoffs have taxed workers, a booming artificial intelligence market is giving the industry a renewed sense of optimism.
If you’re interested in learning more on any of these topics, you can read the full articles below.
CULTURE
Snoop Dogg brings his NFT into real life with new ice cream line available in select Walmart stores
USA Today — Rapper and entrepreneur Snoop Dogg is teaming up with Happi Co., a consumer packaged goods company, to launch a new line of ice cream called Dr. Bombay.
Dr. Bombay Ice Cream will be available in 3,500 Walmart stores starting July 24, and sold for $4.98, according to a press release.
The new brand takes its name from Snoop Dogg’s NFT character and will start by offering seven flavors: Bonus Track Brownie, Cocoa Cream Cookie Dream, Iced Out Orange Cream, Rollin’ In the Dough, S’more Vibes, Syrupy Waffle Sundaze, and the vibrant Tropical Sherbet Swizzle…[cont]
CONTENT
Google’s AI search is getting more video and better links
The Verge — Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video. If you’ve enabled the AI-based SGE feature in Search Labs, you’ll now start to see more multimedia in the colorful summary box at the top of your search results. Google’s also working on making that summary box appear faster and adding more context to the links it puts in the box…[cont]
COMMUNITY
Binance Blockchain Week picks Turkey to host thousands of Web3 lovers
Cointelegraph — Binance is inviting crypto and blockchain enthusiasts to participate in the discussion of the future of Web3 at Binance Blockchain Week in Istanbul, Turkey.
The accelerated growth of the Web3 ecosystem has been a surprising outcome of the current bear market, prominently known as “crypto winter.” Developers and businesses saw the flattening price tickers as an opportunity to focus on building, and innovation has picked up the pace.
True to the phrase, “A bear market is good for building,” Web3 development has achieved new horizons on many fronts, from decentralized finance (DeFi) to gaming and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The momentum of innovation brought the need to gather and talk about the latest and most significant trends in crypto and blockchain that would shape the future of Web3…[cont]
CONVERSATION
X’s Subscription Service, Formerly Twitter Blue, Now Lets You Hide Your Blue Check Mark
Variety — Have you paid Elon Musk for an $8-per-month subscription to Twitter Blue (now called X Blue, under Musk’s rebranding effort) but are embarrassed to advertise the fact?
X now lets subscribers to the premium X Blue service hide the blue check mark on their account. Musk has promoted the perk as democratizing Twitter’s most recognizable status symbol. He tweeted last fall that “There shouldn’t be a different standard for celebrities” when it comes to verified status, and Musk complained that Twitter’s previous process of doling out blue check marks was “corrupt” and “nonsensical.” [cont]
COMMERCE
How layoffs and A.I. are impacting tech workers
CNBC — Tech companies shed more than 386,000 jobs last year and in the first half of this year, according to Layoffs.fyi. That number is climbing.
But while layoffs have taxed workers, a booming artificial intelligence market is giving the industry a renewed sense of optimism.
“I have been in San Francisco for almost 12 years now and I have never felt this kind of energy,” said Flo Crivello, CEO of AI startup Lindy. “And I was here for the mobile boom.”
Crivello said it’s quite clear what’s driving the enthusiasm…[cont]
APPENDIX
- Cointelegraph — Web3 has permanently changed how marketing works
- Cointelegraph — Web3 Compass: The first and only search engine of the WEB3
- Coindesk — Japan Signals More Web3 Promotion Policies Are Coming
- Forbes — The Future Of Manufacturing: Generative AI And Beyond
- Coindesk — Opinion: Is It Finally Time to ‘X-it’ Twitter for Threads?
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