Did you knowHard Fork is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of crypto during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! NFT artworks can sell for jaw-dropping prices, from adigital collagethat cost almost $70m toa GIF of a catthat bagged $560,000. The value of these pieces derives, in part, from scarcity. The works are linked tonon-fungible tokens (NFTs) secured by blockchain tech, which makes them unique and proves ownership....

In the following short film, DirectorCasey Neistatdocuments his journey from Amsterdam to New York City to purchase the first iPhone in 2007. He spends the night in front of an AT&T store in Manhattan just to be the first in line when the store opened at 9am. He left the footage unpublished until now and concluded the film, 4 years later, with a few shots from the very sad scene outside of the Apple store in SoHo....

BankSimple, the online bank that is still in private beta, hasupdated its blogwith a “first look” of the service. The Next Web hascovered BankSimplepreviously, and the company has been quietly working away on their product and user experience I’m told, with a heavy focus on customer service. The company says: We’ve been testing the product for a few months now, and it has been awesome. The product isn’t finished. It will never be finished....

Got a problem and need some advice? Take it toJig, the new answers-based community from Delicious founder Joshua Shachter and his stealth project Tasty Labs. After being acquired by Yahoo, Delicious languished inside the Sunnyvale behemoth, and many wondered what would come next when it was revealed that Schacter had moved on to start Tasty Labs. The buzz around Silicon Valley was palpable, and now we get a first look....

A foolproof guide to image manipulation in Python with OpenCV Install OpenCV Now it’s the time to install OpenCV using only one simple command: Importing a simple image The first thing you will need to learn is importing a simple image and displaying it using OpenCV. The code is straightforward: After reading the code, if you think that we are doing more than just loading the image, you are right. After all, loading an image with OpenCV goes down to only one line of python code:...