sothebys
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15 Pieces of Apple History That Hit the Auction Block for Big Bucks
You don’t become one of the largest tech companies on the planet without leaving a trail of artifacts in your wake. While many of Apple’s former products and ventures may have been lost to time, others have been scrounged up by antique collectors and enthusiasts to be auctioned off for some huge returns. Everything from…
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This Mercedes Is Officially the Most Expensive Car Ever Sold at $202 Million
RM Sotheby’s just crowned this car the most expensive in the world: One of only two 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupés, sold for €135 million (roughly A$202 million at current exchange rates) in an exclusive auction at the Mercedes museum earlier this month.
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Crypto-Fuelled Plan to Buy the U.S. Constitution Ends With a Big Pool of Money and No Constitution
After raising nearly $US49 (A$67) million in the ether in just a few days, the ConstitutionDAO that galvanised blockchain idealists did not win a copy of the US Constitution at Sotheby’s. Last night, the document, one of 13 surviving first edition copies, hammered for $US43.2 (A$60) million (going to — sigh — hedge fund billionaire…
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Error Found in the NFT of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Code
On Wednesday, Tim Berners-Lee sold off a copy of the source code of the world wide web (that he’d written) for a mind-boggling $US5.4 ($7) million at Sotheby’s. Apparently, though, the lucky anonymous buyer should have gotten a bit of a discount. Not long after the sale, a security researcher uncovered some errors hiding in…