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FT News Briefing

Web founder Tim Berners-Lee auctions off original source code

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Unknown, News & Politics, Daily News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Tokyo Olympic Games will need a public bailout of about $800m if spectators are banned, and the end of the interminable EU and US struggle over aircraft subsidies marks a major truce in what seemed an intractable trade conflict. Plus, the FT’s global technology correspondent, Tim Bradshaw, spoke to world wide web founder Tim Berners-Lee about his decision to auction off the original source code as digital art. 


Tokyo Olympics will need bailout if games go ahead without spectators

https://www.ft.com/3cd58c64-039e-4147-a744-af676de1691d?


Airbus/Boeing deal explained: what is in it and what happens next

https://www.ft.com/content/1e04dfe1-9651-4b9e-90d9-fdbd82b45253


Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT

https://www.ft.com/content/a77ad1bf-fae0-478b-aa05-a07790314ebc?



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0:00.0

Good morning from the Financial Times.

0:01.6

Today is Wednesday, June 16th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

0:08.7

The city of Tokyo would need a public bailout if Olympics organizers decide to ban spectators,

0:14.8

and the US and EU have finally ended their never-ending Airbus Boeing trade dispute.

0:20.4

Plus, Tim Berners-Lee wrote the code that was the basis for the worldwide web.

0:24.7

Now, he plans to auction it off as digital art.

0:27.8

Our global tech correspondent Tim Bradshaw has a preview.

0:31.2

The video is a 30-minute looping video of the code cascading down the screen.

0:35.7

It's not quite matrix style because it's being typed rather than fully horizontal,

0:38.9

but it's that kind of vibe.

0:40.5

Our Tim will also tell us more about what the pioneering computer scientist is up to these days.

0:45.6

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

0:55.3

The Tokyo Olympics are just five weeks away,

0:57.6

and organizers have not yet decided whether to allow spectators.

1:01.6

It's the biggest controversy right now over an already controversial Olympics,

1:06.5

but organizers budgeted for full stadiums and already spent the billions of yen raised

1:11.5

from ticket sales.

1:12.8

So if organizers do decide to ban spectators or even limit them,

1:17.6

the city of Tokyo would be on the hook, since local officials agreed to underwrite the cost

1:21.9

of staging the delayed games, and that would require a taxpayer bailout of about

1:27.4

$800 million, according to an FT analysis of Olympic committee finances.

1:37.8

The EU and the US have finally resolved their dispute over subsidies for the aircraft makers

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