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$6.6 million for one video clip Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million. The video by digital artist, Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, was authenticated by blockchain, which serves as a digital signature to certify who owns it and that it is the original work. It’s a new type of digital asset - known as a non-fungible token (NFT) - that has exploded in popularity during the pandemic as enthusiasts and investors scramble to spend enormous sums of money on items that only exist online. Blockchain technology allows the items to be publicly authenticated as one-of-a-kind, unlike traditional online objects which can be endlessly reproduced.   “You can go in the Louvre and take a picture of the Mona Lisa and you can have it there, but it doesn’t have any value because it doesn’t have the provenance or the history of the work,” said Rodri

TikTok agrees to pay $92 million in privacy lawsuit in US San Francisco, Chinese short-video making app  TikTok  has agreed to pay $92 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over privacy violations in the US. According to a report in The  Verge , the lawsuit claimed that the platform collected "highly sensitive personal data" to track users and put them to target advertising.   "While we disagree with the assertions, rather than go through lengthy litigation, we'd like to focus our efforts on building a safe and joyful experience for the TikTok community," a TikTok spokesperson was quoted as saying in the report on Thursday. In 2019, TikTok settled a $1.1 million lawsuit over alleged children's privacy allegations. TikTok's parent company,  ByteDance , reached a settlement with a group of parents who alleged that the company collected and exposed the data and personal information of minors. In the same year, the company paid $5.7 million to t

  Crazy Love; A man was arrested for gifting to his girlfriend People are crazy to do everything for their LOVE; An Arabic person was arrested for allegedly stealing a highly valuable newborn camel for gifting to his girlfriend on her birthday, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as a newspaper reported. The newborn baby camel was theft this month from their farm reported by the owners; Dubai police search the area fruitlessly. After several days, an emirates man called authorities to say a stray camel had wandered onto his farm some 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) away. Stealer, admitted to trespassing neighbor’s farm to steal a newborn baby camel for his girlfriend, after police interrogated, according to the reporter. The man reported the stray beast when he grew worried about being caught. The girlfriend was arrested with his suspected boyfriend to charges theft camel and having false statement and the camel was returned to owners by the police

It's amazing!..... Pink Color Lake When you think of what color a lake might be; blue, brown, maybe even green may come to mind. But I doubt you would ever associate the color pink with of body of water. Well for anyone traveling over the western islands of Australia this unbelievable phenomenon can be witnessed with their own eyes. The captivating pink lake is not a trick of the light , and it retains its hue when removed, but the origin of it’s bubble gum aesthetics remains a mystery the science community is still trying to solve. best guess right now is that it has to do with the high salt levels in the water. Being that Lake Hillier is 10 times saltier than the ocean, it is the perfect breeding ground for the salt loving micro-algae  Dunaliella Salina.  These tiny little guys produce pigment compounds that absorb light like Beta Carotene which is the same kind of stuff that makes carrots orange and some cabbages purple.

  B Controller rechargeable AA smart battery turns your gadgets into smart devices While battery waste is a huge environmental problem, the AA battery is a necessity. That’s where the innovative B Controller rechargeable AA smart battery comes in. With this gadget, your AA devices become smart gadgets in an instant. Reducing your carbon footprint, this rechargeable AA battery works with an IoT-based charger hub. This hub collects all the data from your B Controller batteries. And you can use the connected app to manage all your devices with ease. So much better than conventional batteries, it provides low-battery warnings and fully recharged notifications. Additionally, if you use a rechargeable AA smart battery in your wall clock, use the automatic time adjustment feature to keep it set properly. Compatible with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings, it can give you as much power as 1,000 alkaline single-use batteries

  WhatsApp flap shows importance of message platform to Facebook     When WhatsApp users began to raise concerns about a new privacy policy being rolled out, members of a Washington pickup soccer group decided to switch their communications to rival messaging platform Signal, ditching the Facebook-owned service. The shift was “about moving as many users away from the Facebook Empire, which for my liking has become way too big and powerful,” said Bernhard Fleck, one of the players. The flap over WhatsApp's privacy policy ― described by Facebook as a misunderstanding about efforts to bring businesses onto the platform ― threatens to erode trust in the service which is increasingly important to the leading social network's future. The California giant last month delayed implementation of a new policy which critics said could expand data collection from some two billion WhatsApp users around the world. Even with the delay in place, the policy caused an uproar and pro