Daily Crunch: Startup that transforms real-world items into NFTs raises $6.9M seed round
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New Zealand gets its first crypto, web3-focused VC fund
The last few months have seen a wave of VC firms dedicating entire multimillion-dollar funds to the advancement of technology in the crypto, blockchain and …
Daily Crunch: US dangles reward up to $10M for info on 6 elite Russian military hackers
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World’s biggest earthquake occured 3,800 years ago in Chile, study proves
A recent study has revealed that the world’s biggest earthquake occured in northern Chile 3,800 years ago and caused a huge tsunami that reached New …
Spotify continues testing a TikTok-like discovery feed
Spotify is experimenting with yet another new discovery feature, following last week’s test of an “audio news feed” for podcasts. Now, the streaming service is …
Niantic makes another acquisition, absorbing AR studio NZXR
Just a month after its last acquisition of the WebAR development platform 8th Wall, Niantic announced its purchase of New Zealand-based augmented reality studio NZXR …
Mozilla launches paid subscriptions to its Developer Network
Mozilla today launched MDN Plus, a paid subscription product on top of the existing (and recently re-designed) Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), one of the web’s …
Netherlands cricket ventures to a new frontier in New Zealand
Although almost 4 centuries have handed since Dutch explorer Abel Tasman found New Zealand, his adventurous spirit lives on in a new era of pioneers …
Miruku replacing animals with plants to create dairy proteins
Miruku, a New Zealand-based foodtech company, is applying its molecular farming process to program plant cells to be mini factories for producing proteins, like fats …
New Zealand to reopen borders sooner than planned
New Zealand is bringing forward the opening of its international borders to some travellers after more than two years of COVID-19 isolation, with Prime Minister …