Bored Apes owner Yuga Labs launches 2nd Trip Otherside metaverse experience

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Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Bored Ape Yacht Club parent company Yuga Labs launched its Second Trip for its Otherside universe today as a new “metaverse” experience. The company launched the experience with many thousands of simultaneous users, all interacting in real time, … Read more

Supreme Court Should Take and Reverse Fifth Circuit Decision that Creates a Catch-22 for Takings Claims Against State Government

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In its important decision in Knick v. Township of Scott (2019), the the Supreme Court reversed Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, a 1985 decision that made it almost impossible to bring takings cases against state and local governments in federal courts. Under Williamson County, a property owner who claimed the government has … Read more

My Comment on the OMB’s Proposal to Turn “Hispanic” into a Race

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The federal Office of Management and Budget has requested comments on several proposals to change the official federal racial and ethnic classifications. One proposal is to merge the ethnic question (are you Hispanic/Latino or not?) with the racial one (are you black/African American, white, Asian American, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander?), so individiuals would now be … Read more

A better solution to fraud and chargebacks than regulation

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Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More How best to handle payment disputes between cardholders and merchants is a point of some controversy.  The problem is framed as a zero-sum contest where merchants’ needs must be weighed against cardholders’ … Read more

An open data lakehouse will maintain and grow the value of your data

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Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Are recession fears eating at you? Worried about all your digital transformation investments evaporating like so much dew in the morning sun? That’s a natural way to feel. After all, the digital … Read more

Oil Companies Fail to Convince the Eighth Circuit Climate Cases Should Be Removed to Federal Court

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On Thursday, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected arguments by fossil fuel companies that state-law-based tort claims concerning climate change should be heard in federal court. On this basis the panel in Minnesota v. American Petroleum Institute affirmed the district court’s remand of the case to state … Read more

The enduring legacy of Gordon Moore

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Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Gordon Moore, the elder statesman of the technology industry, passed away today at the age of 94. He was one of the nation’s greatest citizens as a pioneer of the semiconductor industry and chairman emeritus of Intel, which … Read more