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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Zara and South Korean brand Ader Error have teamed up to create their AZ Collection collaborative collection, now available in real life and online. Elon Musk is confident that Neuralink will start implanting its chips into human patients next year.

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Zara enters the metaverse with Ader Error

Zara is taking its first step into the metaverse with South Korean label Ader Error to launch its first collaborative project, which explores the metaverse and virtual reality.

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According to Ader in a release, the AZ Collection is ‘inspired by the identities and uniqueness of all generations from A to Z, blurring the boundaries between the virtual and real worlds, and features the lives of young people who pioneer their own Persona.’

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The AZ collection is now available online and at select stores in South Korea, Spain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Italy, the US, China, and Japan. Don’t worry if you live outside of these countries, as the line is also in the virtual world through the social media platform, Zepeto.

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The name of the collection, AZ, refers to the first and last letters in the alphabet as well as the names of the two collaborators. Ader launched in 2014 and ever since has become one of the most exciting labels to come out of Seoul, so it’s no surprise it is one of the first brands to take the leap into the metaverse with Zara.

Tom Brady announces his second NFT collection

Tom Brady has announced he is dropping a new NFT collection that focuses on the beginning of his football career. 

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback is launching the “Live Forever: The Tom Brady Origins Collection,” consisting of over 16,000 collectible items that highlight the start of his career, such as a stopwatch, cleats, and a jersey used at the NFL combine.

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“When we saw such incredible demand for Autograph’s Preseason Access collection this summer, we knew the very next day that we wanted to start planning for what was next,” Brady commented. “It’s such an exciting time in both this industry and personally in my career, so we wanted to commemorate it in real time as much as possible.”

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Holders of Brady’s first NFT collection will have early access to the December 9th launch. Token owners will be able to unlock them five days later, unveiling a collectible that has five different possible styles and five possible tiers of rarity.

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Brady launched his NFT platform Autograph earlier this year, along with other prominent athletes, including Tiger Woods, Naomi Osaka, Tony Hawk, Simone Biles, Usain Bolt, and other legendary names in sports.

The Waves

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🖼️ Seattle is opening an NFT museum next month

👟 eBay introduces an interactive 3D sneaker viewer

Tech Special

Neuralink brain chips could be in humans by 2022

Neuralink CEO, Elon Musk, is confident that his brain-interface technology company will start implanting its microchips in humans next year.

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Neuralink was co-founded by Musk in 2016, with the goal to develop a chip that could be safely implanted in people's brains to simultaneously record and stimulate brain activity.

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When ready, Neauralink will use its chips to help treat people with serious health problems, such as spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders.

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During a live-streamed interview at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit earlier this week, Musk was questioned about Neuralink’s plans for next year, and he didn’t hold back on details.

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"Neuralink's working well in monkeys and we're actually doing just a lot of testing and just confirming that it's very safe and reliable and the Neuralink device can be removed safely," Musk revealed.

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"We hope to have this in our first humans — which will be people that have severe spinal cord injuries like tetraplegics, quadriplegics — next year, pending FDA approval," he added.

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Twitter acquires messaging platform Quill

Twitter has officially acquired Quill, a business-focused messaging service known for being Slack’s main competitor.

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It’s not the type of acquisition you’d expect, as Twitter’s first move will be to shut Quill down and welcome its team to Twitter’s Experience org to work on messaging tools, specifically Twitter direct messages.

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Yesterday Quill announced the Twitter acquisition news in a blog post, saying, “We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication. We believe the tools we use to communicate today are not the best they can be. Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone.”

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Quill users will have until 1 pm PST, Saturday, December 11th to export their team message history, when the company will turn off its servers and delete all data. For all active teams, refunds will be issued.

Twitter is testing out changes on how it handles reported tweets

Twitter announced that they are currently testing out a new process of reporting tweets which will make it much easier for users to alert individuals of abusive and suspicious behaviour on the platform.

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The current approach that Twitter has for reporting Tweets is streamlined to allow users who are reporting a tweet don't have to choose a reason from the list of pre-selected descriptions of what rule the tweet is violating. With the new process that the company is testing out, users will now be asked questions in a "symptoms first" approach similar to how doctors ask "Where does it hurt?" to patients who enter the emergency room.

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Twitter has stated in a blog post that they hope that by shifting the focus towards the user that is reporting the quality in which the company receives reports will improve. The quality will improve by gathering more first-hand details as to why the user is reporting a tweet as well as being more precise when deciding how the company handles reported tweets. At the moment, the new reporting process is only available to a small group within the U.S., but we can expect it to be rolled out to a wider audience in 2022.

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The wallets are really simple to setup, and to move your crypto over to, so there’s no reason not to secure your assets and take control of your cryptocurrency now and get yourself a Ledger device. You can manage 1800+ coins and tokens directly in the Ledger Live app once you’ve got your device up and running, so you’ll always have your entire portfolio covered.

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