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Fox is making a blockchain animated series with Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon to sell you NFTs

The Verge

The company plans to try to generate buzz for the show with its own brand-new NFT company dubbed Blockchain Creative Labs, THR reports. The image of Disaster Girl, whose real name is Zoe Roth, went for $500,000 , and Nyan Cat’s creator Chris Torres sold that meme for nearly $600,000.

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A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, Greece and other Mediterranean nations have been fighting fires for weeks to bring a number of massive blazes under control. Within 20 minutes, the team will have generated a high-resolution 3D model of the property down to the centimeter. Following the IPCC’s report, we need more technology to respond to more disasters.

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Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech

TechCrunch

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. Most key scientists and investors understood, but the general population and politicians were ambivalent at best.

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