Favour Nerrise, 22, is a Ph.D. electrical engineering student at Stanford University in Stanford, California, and the National Society of Black Engineers’ national chair (NSBE). She has set a lofty aim of graduating 10,000 Black engineers in the next three years. The current graduation rate for Black engineers is 6,000, according to the National Society of Engineering Education, which records engineering graduation rates.
Day: March 30, 2022
Ladderworks sits down with Tyrance Billingsley II, founder and executive director of Black Tech Street to discuss the challenges that he is currently facing.
Bitcoin and Dogecoin reached all-time highs last year, but 2021 was the year of the nonfungible token. Last year, almost $25 billion was spent on NFTs, a few billion more than was spent at the global box office. Despite – or perhaps because of – that high result, there is a stigma attached to NFTs. Most people are either perplexed by the exorbitant pricing NFTs command or are sure they are a sophisticated deception, a rip-off waiting to happen. Critics see NFT purchasers as scumbags who waste money on JPEGs that they could simply “right-click-save” for free.
That refrain won’t remain true for long. NFTs are developing, for better or worse, in 2022.
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The metaverse explained!
“Metaverse” is currently a big term in the worlds of technology, business, and finance, and its definition, like all buzzwords, is hazy, debated, and molded by the objectives of those who use it. In its broadest sense, the metaverse is defined as a graphically rich virtual arena with some degree of realism in which people can work, play, shop, socialize — in short, do the things humans enjoy to do together in real life. Proponents of the metaverse frequently emphasize the concept of “presence” as a defining factor: feeling like you’re really there, and that other people are also truly there with you.