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Justin Bieber has seemingly lost more than 1.2 million real, fungible U.S. dollars on a single digital image of a sad chimpanzee. The multihyphenate pop sensation and mega-star joined in on the crypto/NFT celeb-endorsement hype train in January 2022, when he purchased one of Yuga Labs’ notoriously shitty-looking Bored Apes. The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So FarThe Canadian singer bought into the Bored Ape Yacht Club to the tune of $1.29 million (500 ETH) early last year. Even at the time, that purchase price seemed…

The egg held the record for most liked Instagram post for nearly four years, taking the crown from Kylie Jenner.Image: Marcelo Endelli (Getty Images), Pineapple studio (Shutterstock)As the World Cup comes to a close, Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi took home more than just the titular trophy. Messi’s Instagram post celebrating the team’s win is now the most-liked Instagram post in history. “I dreamed it so many times, I wanted it so much that I still haven’t fallen, I can’t believe it...” Messi wrote in the caption,…

The Lena test image. The original is a 512 by 512 pixel square. Photo: Dwight Hooker, 1972In her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, Samantha Cole traces the twisting history of the “Lena Centerfold,” an image from Playboy that became an international standard for training computers to recognize images. The image, taken in 1972, persisted for decades in computer science, even inspiring op-eds in 2015 from engineering students. The image and its ubiquity came to…

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The Bored Ape Yacht Club is one of the most noteworthy NFT collections on the Internet.Image: Mario Tama (Getty Images)You know the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the popular NFT collection that has enticed the likes of Justin Bieber, Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon? Well, the company behind the collection, Yuga Labs, is suing an artist they believe is trying to devalue the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The first rule of Bored Ape Yacht Club: Do not devalue Bored Ape Yacht Club. Yuga Labs filed a trademarkinfringement lawsuit in California…