A very expensive block chain picture
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Auction house Christie has for the first time sold a digital-only artwork. Mike Winkelmann´s collage of sketches called “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” went for breathtaking USD 69 million
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Too many young are excluded from the web
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On the world wide web´s 32nd birthday, its founder Tim Berners-Lee published an open letter arguing that too many young people are excluded from accessing the web. To reimagine our
European Silicon Design Centre in Munich
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Apple announced that Munich will be the company´s European Silicon Design Centre, adding hundreds of new employees and a new state-of-the-art facility focused on connectivity and wireless technologies. Munich is
Instagram light introduced
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Instagram has launched a light version for Android phones. The idea is a service that uses minimal data. It requires 2 MB to down load instead of 30 for the
Big tech and publishers discussing payments
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An antitrust panel at the US House of Representatives have called big tech companies and publishers for a discussion about the market dominance of big tech platforms. The panel will
Google charity supporting women projects
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Google.org – the charitable arm of Alphabet´s Google – announced a women´s project financed by a donation of USD 25 million to celebrate International Women´s Day. The project is called
How a tweet ended up worth $2.5m
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is selling his first-ever tweet on a website called Valuables that auctions tweets. Dorsey’s 15-year old tweet – “just setting up my twttr” – is one
WhatsApp adding features competing with Zoom
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp is joining the competition for the attention of people locked up at home during the pandemic. The company announced it is introducing voice and video calling feature on
Twitter to fight misleading vaccine information
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Twitter will label tweets with potentially misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines, and introduce a strike system that can lead to permanent account suspension, the company announced joining for instance Facebook
AI to shorten waiting time in mammography
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New clinical research aims to explore if artificial intelligence (AI) can shorten what can often be a nervous waiting time to get results from mammography and improve the patient experience.