Early on in its history, I wasn't particularly thrilled with Wikipedia as a project or reference source. To put it mildly, I viewed the very concept behind the project with a great deal of skepticism, some of which was voiced nine years ago when a medical Wikipedia was proposed. In particular, the fact that anyone could become an editor and edit articles seemed to me to be a recipe for disaster.
Two years into the pandemic, online conversations are for many of us still the primary interactions that we are having every day, and we are collectively having billions of them. But as many of us have discovered, not all of those are squeaky clean, positive experiences. Today, a startup called Spectrum Labs — which provides […]
Why would anyone pay millions for an image that can be downloaded from the internet for free? If you have wondered about this, then welcome to the arcane world of NFTs. What is it? Why is it making waves, this article takes a shot at explaining that. The world of NFT includes an auction, an item which is being auctioned, a creator who created that item and a buyer who buys the items. The only difference between the auction of NFTs and every other type of auction is that there is no banging of gravel or the raising of bid paddles. Yet, bids are placed and items sold. Auctions have been happening for centuries. The auction of t-shirts, bats, balls, football signed .
The Non-Fungible Token of the edit, a unique digital object, was sold by Christie s for $750,000 while his Strawberry iMac fetched $187,500 at auction on Wednesday.