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How Web3 Could Revolutionize Fashion
Web3 is what many imagine to be the future of the internet. A work in progress, Web3 refers to an internet that utilizes the power of blockchains and cryptocurrencies to shift from a centrally-owned system to one that is more broadly decentralized. Among the goals of Web3—though there is no single definition for this next iteration of the internet, and many participants in the development of Web3 have differing viewpoints of how it should operate—are the redistribution of control away from a sma...
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Human vs. AI-Generated Music: Indistinguishable, or Uncanny Valley?
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has advanced to the point where AI systems can be used to create new musical works and songs. As AI becomes more ubiquitous in the process of making music, artists and listeners both will have to address a looming question: do humans or machines make better music? Before digging into this question, we must first acknowledge that taste in music, like all art, is subjective. Certainly there is no way to reach a consensus about which human artists create the...
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How the Fashion Industry Uses Generative AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), a subgroup of AI that produces content ranging from text to music to images and more, has grabbed hold of public attention in recent years thanks to high-profile tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The famous chatbot is known for writing screenplays and bedtime stories as much as it is for helping students to cheat at writing papers, but it has myriad other applications as well. While ChatGPT is among the best-known generative AI tools, it is far from the only o...
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What is MiCA? What the EU Crypto Governing Framework Means for You
Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) is a set of regulations in the European Union that governs the issuance and provision of services pertaining to cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and related assets. It is a landmark regulation in that it is the first such legislation worldwide, and when it takes effect in the coming years it could have a significant impact on the crypto space in Europe. Of course, because cryptocurrencies are not confined to central authorities and spaces like traditional currencie...
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What Is Wearable Tech: Smart Clothing, Jewelry, and Other Stuff on Your Body
When people think of wearable technology today, they likely picture smart watches, fitness trackers, virtual reality headsets, and similar products. The history of wearable tech is an important part of the longstanding connection between the fashion world and the technology sector and in fact extends back to well before those products existed. Wearable tech is also one of the fastest-evolving areas of the fashion industry and one that is likely to continue to evolve with the development of artif...
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Could Human Photosynthesis Be Possible?
Photosynthesis—the process by which plants turn sunlight into food—may be for many people a reminder of high school science class and nothing more. But a growing number of scientists, tech entrepreneurs, and health gurus are considering whether it may be possible for human beings to somehow replicate or at least approximate the way that plants gather nutrients to sustain and grow themselves. The increased interest in so-called “human photosynthesis” in the last several years is often considered...
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How the Fashion Industry Uses Generative AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), a subgroup of AI that produces content ranging from text to music to images and more, has grabbed hold of public attention in recent years thanks to high-profile tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The famous chatbot is known for writing screenplays and bedtime stories as much as it is for helping students to cheat at writing papers, but it has myriad other applications as well. While ChatGPT is among the best-known generative AI tools, it is far from the only o...
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Ethical Issues of AI and Fashion
Both the fashion industry and the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) space face a host of ethical dilemmas and considerations. In fashion, these concerns include ones related to labor practices, environmental impact and sustainability, representation, stereotype, and more. As a younger industry, AI’s ethical concerns are only more recently coming into focus, but they are similarly significant and include inherent bias in AI systems, transparency, replacement of human jobs, and intellectual...
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AI, Fashion Supply Chains, and Sustainability
As we’ve seen, artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming the fashion industry in a significant number of ways, and it’s likely that this transformation will only continue to accelerate in the years to come and as technology continues to improve. In this portion of the course, we’ll look at how AI can be used to impact two crucial areas for the fashion business: supply chains and sustainability. Fashion Supply Chains Fashion supply chains work similarly to chains in other industries. T...
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The History and Future of Wearable Tech
When people think of wearable technology today, they likely picture smart watches, fitness trackers, virtual reality headsets, and similar products. The history of wearable tech is an important part of the longstanding connection between the fashion world and the technology sector and in fact extends back to well before those products existed. Wearable tech is also one of the fastest-evolving areas of the fashion industry and one that is likely to continue to evolve with the development of artif...
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An Introduction to Fashion and Technology
To an outsider, it may seem odd to think that fashion and technology could be deeply linked. After all, when most of us think of fashion we think of high-end clothing worn by models on runways—or of the clothes that we wear on a day-to-day basis. Yet, techno-fashion is both a rapidly-developing industry and one with roots extending back for centuries. Now, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of dramatically reinventing the industry has made the relationship between fashion...
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How To Stake AVAX on Avalanche Using Core
Staking—the process by which holders of proof-of-stake digital tokens lock up the value of a portion of their tokens to contribute to the management of the blockchain and are rewarded with staking rewards—is an increasingly popular way to put your crypto to work. Avalanche is a fast, flexible, secure platform for developing blockchains and decentralized apps (dapps). It offers powerful scalability, throughput, and transaction processing, all made possible by the platform’s novel consensus mecha...
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What is Friend.tech? The Social-Token Driven Decentralized Social Network
Crypto platform Friend.tech, launched in August 2023, has some enthusiastic supporters hailing it as the first real success story in the social crypto space. In the first two weeks after its launch, the platform reportedly gained more than 100,000 users and made about $25 million. This was followed by reports of its early demise, which was in turn followed by a sudden surge in popularity. Social token-driven platforms allow users—including individuals as well as brands and businesses—to create...
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Deepfake Pornography: Is Consent Over Your Image a Lost Cause?
In early September 2023 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said that deepfakes pose a “real risk” to markets. Deepfakes, fake videos or images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) but appearing at first glance to be authentic, can be made to represent high-profile investors and even regulators like Gensler, seeming to show these influential figures saying things that are likely to sway elements of financial markets. Creators of the deepfakes in these cases stand to b...
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How to Use Yieldflow: the DeFi Protocol for Passive Growth of Digital Assets
Centralized exchanges, once the primary hubs for trading and storing crypto tokens, have fallen out of favor among many investors in recent years. The collapse of high-profile exchanges like BlockFi and FTX played a big role in this shift, as crypto enthusiasts realized that centralized platforms could leave them exposed to significant risk—if a centralized exchange goes down, it’s possible that investors could lose all of their tokens housed there, particularly in cases in which the tokens have...
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Who is Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Creator?
Earn a free on-chain certificate touting your knowledge of Ethereum by taking Decrypt U's free course, Getting Started with Ethereum. As of September 2023, Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world by total value, with a market capitalization of over $229 billion. Despite the fact that Ethereum’s value is lower than that of rival Bitcoin, though, there is a good argument to be made that Ethereum is more important for the crypto and blockchain spaces overall than its larger comp...
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What Is PepeCoin (PEPE)?
Launched in mid-April 2023, PEPE is an example of a memecoin, though one of a different variety than the oft-popular doge or Shiba Inu tokens. Memecoins—cryptocurrencies based on internet memes and usually popularized and promoted by influencers or major figures in the space like Elon Musk—have drawn both investor attention and eyerolls over a perceived lack of seriousness. But the potential for investors to score big with memecoins is real, nonetheless. Below, we look more closely at PEPE. Note...
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Who’s Who in Global Crypto Regulation
Greyscale scored a coup in its quest to get its spot Bitcoin ETF approved; on August 29, 2023, the crypto asset manager won an appeal against the Security and Exchange Commission's blocking the process. Grayscale Wins Appeal Against SEC to Convert Bitcoin Trust to ETF Indeed, the speed at which cryptocurrencies have proliferated has far outstripped the ability of governments and bureaucracies to assess and regulate them, and regulators are only now beginning to catch up. It has only been in the...
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What is Worldcoin? Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Global ID 'Orb' Project Hits Regulatory Roadblocks
Worldcoin, a digital identification platform that proves your "personhood" (i.e. that you are not a bot), is ramping up following its July 24, 2023 launch by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. As of August 31, 2023, the company claimed that 2.3 million users had already signed up. But it has not been a smooth ride: just five weeks after its launch, a number of nations have launched investigations on the legality of Worldcoin, including France, Germany, Kenya and the UK. Kenya suspended Worldcoin on August 2...
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How AI Could Lead To Discriminatory Hiring Practices
The topic for this article was chosen by Decrypt readers via Snapshot vote! To help shape future Decrypt content, vote here. To learn more about AI and earn a free on-chain certificate, take our free Getting Started with AI course. Decrypt will cover the gas fees for the first 10,000 mints. With the recent dramatic uptick in artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and technology, disruptors are keen to find new ways that AI can automate a host of tasks previously performed by humans. Indeed, AI h...
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