Roblox: Music festivals in the metaverse

If you baulked at those £200-plus Adele concert tickets, how about watching KSI and Ava Max for nothing....the catch? It’s all in the popular cartoon-like social gaming world Roblox. We speak to global head of music, Jon Vlassopulos on the line from Lisbon’s Web Summit. The Evening Standard’s City news editor Simon Freeman talks VR and future tech with Web Summit CEO, Paddy Cosgrave. Ancient ‘shipyard’ building galaxies found 11 billion light years away. Tech bosses face criminal charges ‘within months not years’ of new internet safety laws, warns Culture Secretary Dorries. Hoping for gains, New York mayor wants his first wages in bitcoin. Up, up and away for Israeli startup using hot air balloons to capture frozen carbon above the clouds. Highly endangered chicks hatch at British zoo...only 200 remain in wild.

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