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How two friends made art history buying a $70M digital work
It took a few minutes for Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran to realize that they'd parted with $69.3 million for a digital artwork stored in a JPEG file, coincidentally securing their place in art history.
Mar 26, 2021
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Q&A: Artist Beeple on selling NFT collage for a record $70M
When digital artist Beeple put an NFT digital artwork up for auction this month, he became instantly famous when it sold for almost $70 million. The record sale also sparked huge interest in digital certificates of authenticity ...
Mar 26, 2021
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Are video games 'essential culture'? French lockdown stirs debate
Confusion over France's new partial lockdown has accidentally reignited an old debate: are video games works of art or just another computer product?
Mar 23, 2021
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Stuck on Zoom: How having more tech at home during COVID-19 creates longer, more stressful workdays
It's not just you. The workday working from home during the coronavirus pandemic doesn't just feel longer. For many of us, it actually is longer.
Mar 22, 2021
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Airtime: Flight simulators keep pilots sharp during pandemic
The coronavirus crisis has clipped the wings of airline pilots but those who have kept their jobs are doing what they can to stay sharp—using flight simulators when they're not in the few planes in the air.
Mar 12, 2021
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QR codes, health passports: China's tech arsenal against a pandemic
Daily life in China follows a rhythm of digital check-ins, with the QR code—at offices, malls and transport hubs—an integral defence against COVID-19 that helps to track, trace and isolate patients.
Mar 11, 2021
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Can the city cycling boom survive the end of the COVID-19 pandemic?
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2019-20, it had an immense impact around the world, but particularly in urban areas, where it was particularly transmissible. Lockdowns and curfews were imposed, as well as distance ...
Mar 04, 2021
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US infrastructure gets C- from engineers as roads stagnate
America's infrastructure has scored near-failing grades for its deteriorating roads, public transit and storm water systems due to years of inaction from the federal government, the American Society of Civil Engineers reports. ...
Mar 04, 2021
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How beers and Vikings gave Bluetooth technology its name
One of the best-known modern technologies owes its name and logo to a Viking-era king with a bad tooth: a quarter century ago, two engineers hatched the idea for the moniker "Bluetooth" over beers.
Mar 03, 2021
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Ohio State opens up Apple app development and coding program to the public
An educational program at Ohio State University teaching students app development and coding using Apple's Swift programming language will be available to the public.
Feb 10, 2021
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Study finds Singapore public less keen on drone use in residential areas than industrial zones
When it comes to drones, the Singapore public is not as keen for them to be used to provide services around their living spaces, finds a study by researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). ...
Jan 28, 2021
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Pushed by pandemic, Germany seeks to boost technology use
The German government on Wednesday agreed on a strategy to boost the use of data for commercial purposes and signed a deal with state education authorities to fund laptops for teachers who have to work from home because of ...
Jan 27, 2021
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