Twitter Ticks NFTs | Serena’s Crypto Smash | The Amazon Mall Experience

Plus: The World’s Most Valuable Sports Empires 2022

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Twitter has unveiled a new feature that will allow owners of non-fungible tokens to verify and show off their digital assets. Also making moves in the crypto space is Serena Williams, who has joined the board of blockchain-based fantasy football game Sorare as an advisor. Amazon, meanwhile, is instead expanding its retail footprint in the brick-and-mortar world, announcing plans to open a fashion store at a California mall. Finally, don’t miss this year’s ranking of the world’s most valuable sports empires.

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Singer and actor Meat Loaf, whose 1977 album Bat Out Of Hell was one of the best selling of all times, died on Thursday aged 74. 

Intel is reportedly planning to invest $20 billion to build a new chip-making facility in Ohio in a bid to bring production closer to home in the face of ongoing global supply chain struggles.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s re-election campaign spent a total $50,000 at Mar-a-Lago in the last two months of 2021, following in the footsteps of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kari Lake—who are both running for state offices—whose campaigns have spent at least $50,000 at former president Donald Trump’s out-of-state private club.

Crypto.com, one of the world’s biggest and best known cryptocurrency exchanges, has revealed that hackers stole $35 million worth of bitcoin and ether from the platform in a recent attack—more than double the figure initially disclosed.

Tennis champion Serena Williams has signed on to the $4.3 billion blockchain-based fantasy soccer game Sorare as a board advisor, as the company plans to add women’s sports to its offerings this year.

Twitter has introduced a feature that will verify a user’s ownership of a specific non-fungible token (NFT), allowing it to be displayed as the user’s profile picture. It’s the first project launched since the social media company set up a crypto team, focused on integrating blockchain tech into the business.

The successful transplant of a kidney from a gene-edited pig into a brain-dead human patient by researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) paves the way to clinical trials—and hope for thousands of patients suffering kidney disease. 

Amazon’s planned launch of a fashion store at a mall just outside Los Angeles later this year, which will feature a hybrid of digital and physical shopping experience, is an opportunity for the e-commerce giant to show whether it can apply its huge trove of data to a brick-and-mortar reality.

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