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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is auctioning off the original source code as an NFT (Non Fungible Token) at Sotheby's. This will be the first digital-born artefact to come to auction at Sotheby’s. The sale will go on from June 23 to June 30, with bidding starting at $1,000.

Tim Berners-Lee predicts AI assistants working for humans. He envisions users owning their data through a data store and accessing apps with data pods. He mentions the European Union's Digital Markets Act and potential actions by the European Commission. “Maybe at some point in the future, agencies will have to work to break up big companies, but we don’t know which company that will be,” he added.

The US Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Google, seeking to break up the tech giant, aligns with a prediction made by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee foresaw the potential need to dismantle large tech companies due to their AI monopolies. Google plans to challenge the ruling, arguing that such a move would hinder innovation.

Even as the clamour for putting in place a regulatory mechanism to monitor the internet more stringently and curb cybercrime is growing, the father of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, feels that a multi-stakeholder model may be the best way to navigate the intricacies of the web and regulate it effectively.

Beware indiscretion on the Internet, the father of the world wide web has cautioned, in a reminder that his brainchild has become one of the biggest, most permanent data 'archives' in human history.

The World Wide Web (WWW) turned 30 on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, and the day was celebrated with a Google doodle.

On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee had submitted the 'Information Management: A Proposal' to his boss which is celebrated as the day World Wide Web was born. Berners-Lee worked at Europe's physics lab CERN, where the World Wide Web was conceptualised as an information management system. By 1991, the external Web servers were running and it went public in 1993.

The world wide web or what we popularly and incorrectly refer to as the internet, celebrates its 15th birthday today.

There was a time when the internet — the “network of networks” superstructure on which the online world is built — was limited to a few hundred computers and about a couple million users. But this month 30 years ago saw the birth of the idea that would unleash the power of information technology that has driven the leap from the industrial into the digital age.

Professor Shuji Nakamura is a 21st-century Thomas Alva Edison, the man who invented the incandescent light bulb.

The world wide web, or what we popularly refer to as the Internet, celebrated its 15th birthday on Saturday.

Tech giant Google is celebrating the 30th birth anniversary of the World Wide Web with a doodle.

The inventor of internet wants to 'fix' his own creation. Tim Berners-Lee launched his plan to save the internet. He said, “If we leave the web as it is, there’s a very large number of things that will go wrong. We could end up with a digital dystopia if we don’t turn things around. It’s not that we need a 10-year plan for the web, we need to turn the web around now,”

Inventor of the World Wide Web, tim berners lee, has said that US whistleblower Edward Snowden must be protected. Lee said this in response to a question on a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) he held on the 25th anniversary of the web, where he was asked, "Edward Snowden: Hero or villain?"

British publication The Independent has released its 'Happy List 2017'. Introduced in 2008, this list honours the top 50 people who make a positive difference to the UK with no thought of personal gain. Previous winners include celebrities like JK Rowling and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

The father of the Net wants a talking web. It would be a boon for millions of Indians who are illiterate, just like the legendary dramatist Kalidas before he discovered the written word.

If you haven’t heard of Web3 then you are not alone as it is a rather new phenomenon but you might hear of it a bit more in the next couple of years. Web3 is the ‘next-gen’ internet which has got many — including Elon Musk and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — skeptical about the idea of the new internet. So what is Web3 and why has got it the likes of Dorsey and Musk speaking against it. Read on:

Three-year-old Tagore Bharadwaj can reel off the capital cities of 118 countries and all Indian states and answer 40 GK questions.

According to Australia's competition watchdog, for every $100 spent on online advertising, Google captures $53, Facebook takes $28 and the rest is shared among others. To level the playing field, Australia wants Google and Facebook to pay for using expensive-to-produce news content in their searches and feeds.

Public access to official data has become even more difficult, according to a world ranking looking at which country is most open and transparent in the world.