Below are RT Creative Lab’s pitches for the panels at SXSW 2022: DIGITAL “DA VINCIS”: RESHAPING BRAND STORYTELLING Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most prominent brand storytellers of his time. His renowned “Last Supper”, commissioned by the Duke of Milan, depicts a famous Biblical scene. Yet one detail …
Read More »Foreign travelers to China can now use digital yuan – central bank
“Foreign residents temporarily traveling in China can open an e-CNY wallet to meet daily payment needs without opening a domestic bank account,” the bank said in its so-called white paper on e-CNY, China’s government-developed digital currency. Despite e-payments being a major form of transactions in China, the country’s two leading …
Read More »Will the digital dollar make bitcoin obsolete? RT’s Boom Bust has the answer
RT’s Boom Bust asks crypto analysts Ben Swann and Christy Ai if that’s indeed the case. For more stories on economy & finance visit RT’s business section
Read More »Cyberattacks show the risks of digital currencies and centralised control – we need a return to community banking
The Miami, Florida-based IT company Kaseya found at the beginning of July that its IT management software Virtual System Administrator (VSA) had been hijacked by hackers with ransomware, asking for US$70 million to release its grip. Kaseya serviced around 1,500 customers across the globe, according to Reuters, and, when faced …
Read More »Death of John McAfee, bitcoin evangelist and digital outlaw, ruled suicide as family demands second investigation
McAfee was cleared to be extradited to the US on Wednesday after spending eight months imprisoned in Spain. According to the preliminary autopsy, he hanged himself in his cell. He was allegedly found by prison workers in the pretrial detention area. READ MORE: John McAfee tried to kill himself in …
Read More »Bank of England trashes bitcoin while praising its non-existent digital pound
During his speech at the Future of FinTech Conference on Thursday, he voiced the Bank of England’s (BOE’s) noncommittal interest in the development of a CBDC and its commitment to keeping cash “available for as long as [people] wish to use it.” Talking about the bank’s 2020 survey on CBDCs, …
Read More »India issues ‘last notice’ to Twitter urging it to comply with new digital information rules or face ‘unintended consequences’
The notice was issued by India’s ministry of electronics and information technology on Saturday. The ministry told Twitter that it was “dismayed to note that your responses to the Ministry’s letters neither address the clarifications sought by this Ministry nor indicate full compliance with the Rules.” The warning is the …
Read More »I fear that the EU’s new dystopian ‘digital identity wallet’ will be used to control and track people in the way China does
The European Union’s executive commission has just announced the introduction of a pan-EU digital identification that citizens of member states can use across the entire bloc that will store important identification and official documents, like a driver’s license, prescriptions, diplomas, and presumably Covid-19 test and vaccination certificates. It will also …
Read More »iPhone users ‘digital slaves’ to ‘overpriced, obsolete’ gadgets & are trapped in Apple’s grasp, says Telegram founder Durov
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born businessman who founded both the Telegram messaging service and the popular VKontakte social network, turned fire on the California-based tech giant in a post on Wednesday. He pointed followers to a New York Times investigation that claimed Apple is involved in a massive program of surveillance …
Read More »Space Farce! The US Space Force sets out its mission to achieve ‘digital dominance’ in the universe – & becomes a cartoon parody
In Kinka Usher’s 1999 superhero comedy film, Mystery Men, there is one character, a Mexican wrestler-turned-superhero who goes by the name ‘Sphinx.’ Throughout the film, the ‘Sphinx’ offers up platitudes that would rival Sun Tzu, Confucius, or Yoda. “He who questions training,” he says on one occasion, straight-faced, “only trains …
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