A special effect video showing a teenager falling down some stairs and then bouncing all over the city, causing chaos and destruction everywhere he lands.
Mattel has just announced that it will soon release a Lara Croft Barbie doll! The doll will also come with a climbing ax, a journal, a map, and a doll stand. You can pre-order the doll right here on Mattel’s website.
“Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished mysteriously. Leaving everything she knows behind, she embarks on a journey to his last know destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island. Lara ventures into the unknown armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and stubborn spirit. She must push herself beyond her limits. Can she survive this perilous adventure, and earn the title of TOMB RAIDER?”
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Blockchain enthusiasts often stress how the concept isn’t just about cryptocurrencies and a planned program in Africa could prove that point. The idea is to use a blockchain to boost the fight against child labor in cobalt mining.
Cobalt is a key material in producing the lithium ion batteries that make pocket-sized cellphones practical. More than half of the known cobalt still in the ground is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and human rights groups have criticized tech firms for not doing enough to show they have checked that their suppliers don’t use child labor in the country.
In principle, the solution could be as simple as keeping a paper trail from a batch of cobalt being mined to it being used to make a phone. In practice that’s tricky not just because the supply chain is often complex with multiple middle-men, but because there’s a major incentive for less reputable suppliers to falsify documents.
The World Economic Forum is now developing prototype programs to use a blockchain, a form of digital ledger that’s designed to be extremely difficult (and ideally impractical) to tamper with without being detected.
The idea would be to track cobalt mined by companies known to have good labor practices. It’s suggested each bag of cobalt could be sealed and digitally tagged before being tracked along the supply route. The tag would include both the weight and a spectrometer measurement of the proportion of pure cobalt in the batch (which is what will eventually be made accessible during smelting.)
Reuters notes that blockchain has been trialled successfully with diamond supplies, but the cobalt supply chain has more than twice as many steps to track.
Super, we all know Spider-Man fights crime, but he also happens to be a really good dancer!
Watch as Marcus Laporte and Adam Ellis from Master & Apprentice fabricate the massive 7 foot Jawblade from Monster Hunter World. It’s Monster Hunting time!
Animator Guy Collins illustrates what lag would look like if it’d be a thing in real life.
Yes, I know this is kind of old, but I thought I’d share it with you guys anyways. Plus, it’s the weekend and I need a break. :)
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