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Paolina Russo and her Bae Blades are boldly entering the digital realm

As the Rihanna-approved knitwear label drops three looks for Roblox, creative directors Paolina Russo and Lucile Guilmard discuss the benefits of taking things from IRL to URL

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Nov 30, 2023

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Is Britain prepared to face the ‘existential threat’ of AI?

The UK has declared its aim to lead the world in AI, one of five ‘technologies of tomorrow’ – but what is the government actually doing to maximise the benefits and curb the risks of new tech?

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Jun 14, 2023

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Cao Fei’s Duotopia is a trippy look into the future of technology

The Chinese artist’s show at Sprüth Magers is a ‘journey into the depths of our connections’

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Metaverse Fashion Week 2023: log on or touch grass?

As the second edition of Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week goes live, we round up some of the best events, exhibitions, and parties

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Mar 28, 2023

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Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs are over

Meta is cutting collectible art from Facebook and Instagram – plus another 10,000 jobs – as part of Zuck’s ‘Year of Efficiency’

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Mar 14, 2023

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Can the metaverse reshape the future of fashion in 2023?

In 2022 Decentraland hosted the first Metaverse Fashion Week and Mark Zuckerberg brought Balenciaga to the masses, yet fashion is still blinkered to the potential of a technological revolution in 2023

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Jan 06, 2023

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Snow Crash: the 30-year-old novel that predicted today’s twisted Metaverse

Prophetic sci-fi author Neal Stephenson tells Dazed what his seminal story got right and wrong about today’s terminally online world

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Dec 09, 2022

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Nick Knight is building a ‘new civilisation’ in the metaverse

The photographer’s latest project, Ikon-1, casts @uglyworldwide as the deity of his brave new world – here, they discuss the importance of beauty, and why shaping the metaverse can’t be left to the likes of Mark Zuckerberg

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Nov 17, 2022

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Idoru is the app making avatars more realistic and representative than ever

A new app that allows users create realistic, lifelike avatars of themselves is providing a level of representation rarely seen in the gaming and digital world

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Nov 08, 2022

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What happens when drag and the metaverse collide?

Meta’s Queens of the Metaverse event saw LGBTQ+ digital designers collaborate with some of the UK’s top drag acts to imagine a future of the art

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Oct 28, 2022

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The author who coined ‘metaverse’ is building his own online world

Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson has teamed up with a crypto bro to create an open metaverse and fight back against Big Tech

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Sep 23, 2022

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Lu Yang’s digital reincarnations explore the ghost in the machine

LuYang NetiNeti is the Shanghai-based artist‘s first solo UK exhibition

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Sep 22, 2022

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Can digital spaces help heal sexual trauma?

Offering a safe and controlled environment, people with sexual trauma are increasingly turning to digital-only sex spaces to experience, experiment and heal

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Aug 20, 2022

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Why thousands of users are abandoning the world’s most popular VR game

‘Don’t think I’ve seen a bigger fuck up in gaming history’

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Jul 29, 2022

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Which beauty subculture will you belong to in the metaverse?

From Romantic Radicals to Soul Alchemists and Shape Shifters, trend forecaster Geraldine Wharry predicts the subcultures that will reign supreme in our virtual future

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Jul 11, 2022

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