Secular shift to digital has gone to next level in India, says Adobe

India outranks every other country in the world in terms of preference on dealing with brands and the secular shift to digital has gone to the next level in the country in the post-Covid world, a top Adobe executive said on Monday. https://ift.tt/aZfOUkq

Chainalysis: NFT sales totaled just over $1B in June 2022, a 12-month low since June 2021 when sales were $648M; sales reached a peak of $12.6B in January 2022 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Chainalysis: NFT sales totaled just over $1B in June 2022, a 12-month low since June 2021 when sales were $648M; sales reached a peak of $12.6B in January 2022  —  Sales of non-fungible tokens totalled just over $1bn in June, compared with peak of $12.6bn in January

A look at national security concerns around modern cars filled with cameras and sensors, as a Chinese town bans Teslas during a communist party conclave (Justin Ling/Wired)

Justin Ling / Wired:
A look at national security concerns around modern cars filled with cameras and sensors, as a Chinese town bans Teslas during a communist party conclave  —  Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue.  Just ask Tesla. China's Electric Dream

10 popular ‘family-tracking’ Android apps that can be ‘dangerous’

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Survey: experts split on the likely evolution of an immersive metaverse by 2040, worry about the dominant platforms building it, and expect more useful AR/MR (Pew Research Center)

Pew Research Center:
Survey: experts split on the likely evolution of an immersive metaverse by 2040, worry about the dominant platforms building it, and expect more useful AR/MR  —  Hype?  Hope?  Hell?  Maybe all three.  Experts are split about the likely evolution of a truly immersive ‘metaverse.’ They expect …

As Apple ramped up investment in Mac chips, the progress of its other chips slowed down; sources: Apple Watch Series 8 may be able to tell if users have a fever (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
As Apple ramped up investment in Mac chips, the progress of its other chips slowed down; sources: Apple Watch Series 8 may be able to tell if users have a fever  —  When it comes to Apple's chip advancements, the company's iPhone and watch are taking a back seat to the Mac.