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Man offers Newport council £50m if it helps find bitcoins in landfill
James Howells offers to share 25% of the £200m he claims is on hard drive he accidentally threw out in 2013. A computer engineer who claims he accidentally threw away a hard drive containing a virtual currency worth tens of millions of poundshas promised to give a local council a quarter of the fortune if they help him dig it out of a rubbish tip.
How much data is generated every minute?
In an increasingly digital world intensified by the outbreak of COVID-19, 2020 has introduced a new era where technology and data have taken more significant roles in our daily lives. As we learn to adapt to this new era, data never sleeps.
Photos of the Year 2020
The second year of the Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition has just come to a close, and the winners have been announced. The contest “celebrates close-up, macro, and micro photography,” among seven separate categories. More than 6,500 entries were received from 52 countries this year. Organizers have been kind enough to share some of the winners and finalists with us below.
‘You Could Compare It to a Picasso’: Chinese Buyers Pay $1.9 Million For a Racing Pigeon
New Kim, a Belgian racing bird, set an auction record after a bidding war between two Chinese buyers. In the pigeon racing world, breeding brings big bucks — but never before as much as for New Kim, a 2-year-old female pigeon who sold for a record 1.6 million euros, about $1.9 million, after a bidding war between two Chinese buyers at a Belgian auction.
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