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  • The 69 million-dollar JPEG: Beeple's Everydays: the First 5000 days
    Collectibles
    Money for nothing: NFTs spark a new digital gold rush
    A digital artist called "Beeple" is now one of the top three most valuable artists alive – in any medium – after he sold a JPG file of his work for US$69,346,250. Welcome to the crazy world of NFTs, and the internet's latest wild gold rush.
  • Among IBM's annual 5 in 5 list is the world's smallest computer, smaller than a grain of salt – seen here as the tiny white dot on the lefthand corner of the chip
    Computing
    World's smallest computer and unhackable data top IBM's annual future-tech list
    IBM Research has released its annual “5 in 5” list, outlining five technologies that the company believes will be instrumental over the next five years. This year’s list focuses on security and AI, predicting that by 2023 we’ll have unhackable encryption, unbiased AI and mainstream quantum computers
  • PlayTable is a gaming console that can be played using physical game pieces, or users' mobile phones
    Games
    Blockchain-based PlayTable digitizes board game night
    To keep 21st century kids interested, classic toys have been getting high-tech makeovers lately. Now, a new company known as Blok.Party is targeting tabletop gaming with PlayTable, a tablet-like gaming console that uses physical pieces and runs an operating system based on a blockchain.
  • Students are examining ways to make Bitcoin more appealing to a wider range of businesses (Image: Shutterstock)
    Good Thinking
    Students look to improve bitcoin transparency
    In an effort to make bitcoin more attractive to a wider range of legitimate businesses, students at Trinity College Dublin are looking for ways to increase transparency in transactions without ditching the anonymity altogether and believe a "credit-check" database could be one answer.