Day: January 12, 2022

Source: Boris Johnson Apologizes for Party at Downing Street During U.K. Lockd... Discovered on: 2022-01-12 18:43:00 LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized for attending a drinks party held in the Downing Street garden when strict lockdown measures were in place in 2020, seeking to tamp down growing public outcry and respond to pressure from his own lawmakers over the event.During a boisterous session in Parliament on Wednesday, Mr. Johnson said he regretted joining a party in Downing Street billed as a “bring your own booze” party. He explained that he thought the gathering was a work event. “I know the rage they feel with me, with the government I lead,” Mr. Johnson said. In May 2020, a senior official in Mr. Johnson’s team emailed staff inviting them to meet for drinks...

Source: Taking NFTs into the science and technology sphere Discovered on: 2022-01-12 21:31:00 Sotheby's sold the original source code for the World Wide Web for $5.4 million — © AFP Martin BUREAU A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. Over the past two-years NFTs have been adopted for authenticating and exchanging intellectual property in the fields of art, gaming, and other collectibles, with the tokens being in the form of digital assets. One of the sparks for the boom was NFT for “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” (a digital work of art created by Mike Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple) being sold for $69.35 million in March 2021. Accord...