First rhino horn NFT sold for $7000 at auction in South Africa

A digital replica of a rhino horn was sold at an auction in South Africa late Thursday, as conservationists tapped into the craze for NFTs to raise money to protect real rhinos.
The NFT technology also allows a beneficiary to receive commissions from future sales, so if Jacobs sells his NFT in the future, Black Rock Rhino would receive a portion of that sale.
Poachers killed at least 249 rhinos in South Africa during the first six months of the year – 83 more than in the first half of 2020.

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Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta, warns of a ‘existential threat’ in Virtual Reality moderation.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth warned employees that creating safe virtual reality experiences was a vital part of its business plan – but also potentially impossible at a large scale.
While the full memo isn’t publicly available, Bosworth posted a blog entry alluding to it later in the day. The post, titled “Keeping people safe in VR and beyond,” references several of Meta’s existing VR moderation tools.
The company’s recent rebranding offers a potential fresh start, but as the memo notes, VR and virtual worlds will likely face an entirely new set of problems on top of existing issues.

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The investigation revealed that out of 20 free VPN iPhone apps, only 3 free VPNs respected users’ choice to not allow advertisers to track.
Notably, 9 free VPNs shared detailed information about the user, and 15 free VPNs shared basic information about users’ iPhone devices with advertisers.
The company identified the 20 most popular ad-supported free VPN apps on the U.S. version of Apple’s App Store.

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