Starbucks is shutting down its NFT rewards program

and everything will be encrypted.

People have often told me—I refrain from using the word compliment because I cannot think of youthful looks as praise—that I looked young for my age.Plants were not news consumers because their world remained unaffected by changes in governments and results of cricket matches.

Wedding anniversaries would be a joke given the number of marriages a tree went through in its lifespan.All around me were estate developers sending their fleets of workers to construct skyscrapers to tight schedules.An epiphany wrapped me like a tendril—were trees freelancers or salaried employees? A tree was a daily wage laborer.

I loved the way in which trees coped with dark and lonely places while sunlessness decided curfew hours for me.the learning acquired at different times of the day and in different places cramped into a few hours of writing time.

But how does one live to tree time in this deadlined world? I began by trying to dismantle the architecture of time units inside my head.

(Was it this that Salvador Dalí wanted to invoke when he placed so many of his melting clocks on trees in his paintings?) I was tired of speed.when user interfaces shifted from requiring arcane.

and trustworthy independent oversight in order to implement ethical practices surrounding AI.he discusses how to adapt existing practices of reliable software engineering.

he remains sceptical that AI will surpass or successfully imitate human intelligence -- scepticism that extends to newwere still a ways from seeing fully autonomous trucks in regular freight use on American roads.