The $69m digital artwork
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How the boom in 'non-fungible tokens' helped one artist become a multimillionaire. Mike Winkelmann - also known as Beeple - explains why his art has sold for $69m at auction despite being freely available to download. Also on the programme: A global security breach of Microsoft's email software hits thousands of businesses. We hear from the BBC's cybersecurity specialist Joe Tidy on why so-called 'zero-day' vulnerabilities are so scary. And Onyinye Ough from the organisation Step Up Nigeria tells us how virtual reality is being used to fight corruption in the West African country. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield.
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| 0:55.5 | I'm Rory Ketland-Jones, and this week an attack on Microsoft's email program is being described as a global cybersecurity crisis with so-called zero-day vulnerabilities sparking alarm. |
| 1:07.6 | We'll explain exactly what they are. |
| 1:10.0 | A digital artist has made millions of dollars by selling |
| 1:12.8 | not his art, but a digital certificate, signifying ownership of it. We ask him what that's all about. |
| 1:19.4 | And how virtual reality is being used to fight corruption in Nigeria. Joining me this week is |
| 1:25.5 | BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Jane, what do you been up to? |
| 1:29.2 | Well, I've been learning about the Metaverse, which is part of something we'll talk about later, |
| 1:34.3 | all to do with Roblox and how we're all going to be living in digital spheres in future, Rory. |
| 1:38.6 | I feel I'm already living in a digital sphere and we'd quite like to get back to the real world. But there we go. |
| 1:44.6 | Here's a flavor of what's coming up. |
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