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Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downloadable content and online services. However, at least in Japan, a modem add-on for the Famicom offered those features. Released in 1988, the Family Computer Network System (FCNS) offered all that using its modem to dial into Nintendo’s servers.…

The 16-year-old sitting in her bedroom in suburban Phoenix represents the future of finance. Born in 2008, she has never known a world without smartphones, social media, or digital money. While her parents debate the legitimacy of cryptocurrency, she navigates Discord servers dedicated to NFT trading, completes blockchain programming tutorials for token rewards, and earns…

“It’s not gambling, it’s girl math,” is the headline of an article by Nancy Walecki in The Atlantic, in which she reflects on how the gambling industry is trying to win over female audiences with matcha tea memes, girlboss-style advertising, and prediction markets tied to pop culture. On the popular prediction market platform Kalshi, some…

Japanese authorities have reportedly called on the U.S. government to stop using characters from some of Japan’s most famous entertainment franchises in political memes, arguing that such content may violate intellectual property rights and harm the image of beloved characters, AzerNEWS reports.