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In response to the highly unpopular reduced payouts from certain Gran Turismo 7 races, players have created a way to hands-off earn credits without grinding in-game, and it involves not actually playing.

Credits are needed to purchase high-end cars in the shop, and by making it harder to earn free credits just through gameplay, Polyphony Digital incentivizes purchase of in-game credits with real money instead--a move GT7 players are unhappy with.

Spotted by VGC, PSN Profile user Septomor posted a hands-off AFK script to farm credits. It's only usable with Windows and PS4 Remote Play for now, and the script essentially runs the same race with the same car over and over again without any user input.

GT7 also came under fire for an extended maintenance period. Explaining why the game was offline for so long, Polyphony Digital explained that it discovered a major bug "where the game would not start properly in some cases on product versions for the PS4 and PS5."

With the combination of reduced credit payouts from certain races and longer-than-expected maintenance, GT7's Metacritic score took a dive. Players are expressing their dissatisfaction with the recent in-game change by review-bombing the game. GT7's user score currently sits at 1.8.

In our Gran Turismo 7 review, Alex Goy scored it 8/10. He said, "It plays as close to driving a real car as you can get on a console, and much like shaving a few seconds off your commute, or playing on your favorite road in the real world, the game draws you in with challenges, physics, and luscious visuals."

The 90's Ape Club team is excited to introduce their collection of characters inspired from the 90's which have been designed by award winning Artist Keivo, who was named Young Cannes Lions Global 2021 Winner in Digital Art.

The 90's was a magical time – the birth of the internet created the innovation of the website and email with the rise of CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL and more.

For the first time, people could make friends around the globe in a much more meaningful and connected way – not through pen pal letters or the digital equivalent of bulletin boards, but instead through chat rooms and GeoCities and TriPod – searches still had to be done through HotBot or AltaVista and your brand new 28.8 baud model on your brand new Intel Pentium machine running Windows 95 was Rad and L33T.

For many of us, culture and music reached a pinnacle – MTV was still playing music videos.  You probably still listen to the music from that age - 2Pac and Biggie, WuTang and Big L – you remember Ja Rule and DMX, Brittany and No Doubt – Nirvana and Soundgarden and STP and when you hear Jock Jamz you're instantly transported back to a grade school or high school sports game – or maybe Mariah Carey's “Hero” comes on the radio and you remember your first slow dances at the 8th grade mixer or maybe just remember watching Dennis Rodman and Michael Jordan go HAM on the court – or the bright neon scrunchies and Hot Topic studded belts or chain wallets on JNCO pants that sagged so low they defied the physics being taught in your high school classroom.

Sound familiar? You might just be a 90s kid – or maybe you wish you were. The 90s Ape Club was created as a place for 90s kids (both in age and spirit) to come together for the next big rise of the internet: into the Metaverse.

Their goal is to rekindle that nostalgia and control our own destiny in the Metaverse with multicultural collaboration, 90s themed parties around the globe, and building an impassioned vision of the future. They want to make sure that this important era is preserved on the blockchain forever – and you can be part of it.

The collection contains 5,555 apes generated by Artificial Intelligence. The first 1,000 were minted in the OG mint and boast special Genesis traits, making them extremely rare.

What was the mint price for Genesis Apes?
0.055 ETH 

What will be the mint price for presale and public sale?
Presale: 0.06 ETH Public sale: 0.08 ETH

Whitelisted members can mint up to 3 Apes per wallet during presale.

Any Apes that are not minted by whitelist members will be available in the public mint. During this mint, users will be able to purchase up to 10 Apes per wallet.

Utilities

Being a 90's Ape Club holder offers a number of impressive utilities as shown below:

Events

The team has proposed 2 NFT conferences and meetups in 2022 exclusively for holders. One of these meet-ups will be held in early August in Slovenia while the other will be held in North America with the exact location TBA. Holders will also attend special online NFT conferences for members that can't attend the IRL conferences. The goal is to share experiences and knowledge with the members as well as educate them about topics such as mental health and security in the NFT space, as well as the future of the metaverse.

Gaming

The team are currently developing their exclusive P2E game which is set in an alternative 1991 Hollywood called ‘Apewood'. You will assume the role of your NFT hero on a revenge rampage against the underworld. It will be inspired by some of GameBoys classics back in the 90's. Teasers of the game will be being released to the community in the near future. The game is set to be released in Q4. Alpha The team will also offer holders an alpha channel where they will have up-to-date information about existing and upcoming projects, exclusive whitelist opportunities, alpha alerts, special giveaways, and a host of other valuable information and benefits. 

Merch

In addition to the Alpha opportunities, members will have access to premium 90's Ape Club merchandise at exclusive prices. 20% of all Merchandise sales will be donated to a Monkey Sanctuary in New Zealand. Free t-shirts will also be provided for holders which we will distribute at one of the live conferences.

Metaverse

Sandbox and Decentraland integrations are coming in Q2 2022. 90s Ape Club holders will have access to private events in the Metaverse. More details about that will be announced soon.

The Public Mint date will be in April, the exact date is yet to be announced but you can keep up-to-date with all the latest 90's Ape Club news and information on the links provided below.

Social Media: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/90sApeClub

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/90sapeclub/

Opensea: https:// opensea.io/collection/90s-ape-club-v2

Discord: https://discord.gg/ hZfB3ngDTA

Media Details: 

Company Name: 90aspeclub 

Contact Name: Jaka

Email: 90sapeclub@gmail.com

Website: https://90sapeclub.io 

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Chains.com, an early-stage multiproduct cryptocurrency startup launched in February 2022,  has seen over 380,000 accounts created on the platform so far, in anticipation of the launch of the Chains Launchpad and Prism products.

“The traction so far underlines just how attractive Chains' offering proved to appear to a large cross-section of users,” says CEO and Founder of Chains.com, Anderson Mccutcheon. 

Anderson adds: “We saw a gap in the market for a platform supporting not only different cryptocurrencies and blockchains, but also services designed specifically for those not interested in the underlying technology”

Scaling from zero to hundreds of thousands of users meant that the company had to make significant adjustments, rapidly deploying changes to both the frontend and backend of its product.

The team introduced fingerprinting, multiple captcha touchpoints and account verification methods to eliminate risks posed by automated botting and DDoS attempts. 

Anderson says: “We can confidently say we are at a very low risk of being compromised thanks to the tireless work of our cyber security specialists. Our top priority is the security and stability of our systems. Users need to be able to trust us with their data.”

Over 30,000 users applied to have their accounts whitelisted for the upcoming CHA token sale on the Chains Launchpad and this is expected to rise as more details emerge about the presale.

Those who have signed up for the presale indicated TRON, Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain as the blockchains they prefer to have the token deployed on. The flexibility offered by Chains.com means users can pick and choose between a variety of chains to which their tokens are to be deployed after the token sale, an industry first.

About the Founders:

Anderson Mccutcheon, a former Riot Games and Stars Group executive, as well as an IDF Unit 8200 veteran, comes from a diverse technological and marketing background. A blockchain industry pioneer, Anderson co-founded Unicoin and Synereo and specializes in algorithm development for real-time thermochemical control systems. 

Assaf Patir, the Chains Chief Economist, holds two PhDs, one in Economics from Northwestern University and another in Physics from the Weitzmann Institute of Science. Assaf's specialty field is Macroeconomics and he currently holds the position of Chief Economist at the Start-Up Nation Policy Institute.

About Chains: Chains, a Seychelles International Business Company, was founded in 2020 with a view to simplify the cryptocurrency and NFT experience for non-technical users and create a gateway to access the space and relevant services on one platform.

Media Contact:

Daria Kuznetsova,
CMO of Chains.com
daria@chains.com

Acquiring CT data at two different energies improves the quality of images used for radiotherapy treatment planning and offers an insight into functional processes inside the body

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Physicists are devising clever new ways to exploit the extreme sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. But so far, they’ve seen no signs of exotica.

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