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Ulster University is playing a lead role in supporting this cross-Border initiative

<p><span>During the pandemic, UK firms have invested considerable sums in their technology as they cater for employees working from home. Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests this trend is continuing as investment in new technologies is still gaining traction &ndash; increasing by more than 7% from Q4 2019 to Q2 2021.</span></p>

Ethereum’s Altair upgrade is about to go live, in a big step towards a faster, greener ethereum 2.0.

By Daniel Broby for The Conversation The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (£363 billion). That’s still slightly less than half that of the biggest cryptocurrency, bitcoin.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to reinvent Facebook. He has been telling analysts and journalists that he wants the company to lead the way to a completely different internet. He said: In the coming years, I expect people will transition from seeing us primarily as a social media company to seeing us as a metaverse company … In many ways the metaverse is the ultimate expression of social technology. So what does the Facebook chief executive mean by “metaverse company"? And what will the company look like if and when it gets there? Where it comes from The term “metaverse" is used to describe the ...