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Unopened first-gen iPhone sells at auction for $190,000
Someone with deep pockets has snapped up a piece of tech history after forking over $190,000 for a first-generation iPhone from 2007. That's around 300 times the device's original price.
The Wachowskis are auctioning iconic film props to support trans youth
Lana and Lilly Wachowski have announced that they're holding an auction of props from films like The Matrix and Cloud Atlas to raise money for vulnerable trans youth
The first text message is now a $150,000 NFT
Vodafone will donate the proceeds to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Jimmy Wales is auctioning off an NFT of his first Wikipedia edit
Following in the footsteps of Tim Berners-Lee and others, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is auctioning off a piece of internet history.
Rare commemorative Game & Watch handheld sells for $9,100 at auction
Another Nintendo collectible has set a sales record, but this one is a bit different.
Sealed 'Super Mario 64' game sells at auction for a record-breaking $1.56 million
A case fresh copy of 'Super Mario 64' has sold at auction for more than $1.5 million.
Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning off the web's source code as an NFT for charity
Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee will auction the original code for the modern internet as an NFT.
Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first tourist flight
Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will be on board Blue Origin's first suborbital tourist flight.
A sealed copy of 'Super Mario Bros.' just sold for $660,000
The copy was one of the earliest shrink-wrapped versions of the games you could buy in the US.
A Jony Ive-designed Leica camera prototype is going up for auction
The final prototype version of a Leica M camera designed by Jony Ive is going up for auction in June.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has created an NFT for the first tweet
The first tweet ever is up for auction, or at least an NFT linked to it is.
A copy of ‘Super Mario Bros. 3’ sold for $156,000
It's the most expensive game ever sold at auction.
Many Android phones will offer Bing alongside Google search in Europe
Microsoft scores key markets in the latest browser choice auction.
Verizon spends big in FCC auction ahead of mid-band 5G launch
Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) was the biggest winner in the FCC’s recently concluded auction for licenses in the 3.5 GHz band.
FCC votes to auction C-band satellite spectrum for 5G use
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has been pressing for an auction of "mid-band" wireless spectrum that could be useful for expanding the reach of 5G, and on Friday the commission voted to approve rules for just such a redistribution. The rules cover "C-Band" spectrum that satellite companies like Intelsat, SES SA and Telesat are currently using, and include payment incentives for those companies to speed plans to shift operations away from those frequencies by dates in 2021 and 2023. Otherwise, the spectrum will need to be freed up no later than December 5th, 2025. Those payments could add up to $9.7 billion, and dissenting FCC commissioners argued that there wasn't enough consideration on how much they should be or how funds from the auction should be distributed, and that the FCC was misusing its powers under the law. Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement (PDF) that, "We could start a fund a new initiative to help with rural broadband. We could fund the nation's transition to next-generation 911, which is sorely needed and would benefit public safety in every state. Or we could use some of the revenues to seed a Homework Gap Trust Fund to help our nation's students stuck in the digital divide. It could support WiFi hotspots for loan in every school library—and virtually eliminate the Homework Gap overnight."
'Jessica Jones' props will hit the auction block in December
If you've ever fancied yourself as a private eye with superpowers, you'll soon have the chance to get your hands on a desk that might make you look and feel the part. Props and costumes from the Netflix series Marvel's Jessica Jones, including the eponymous PI's desk, will hit the auction block in December.
UK police auction TalkTalk hacker's cryptocurrency
A UK police force auctioned off more than £240,000 of cryptocurrency that they confiscated from the teenage hacker behind the 2015 TalkTalk breach. In April 2018, police discovered that Elliott Gunton was stealing personal data in exchange for hundreds of thousands of pounds in cryptocurrency. According to BBC, he admitted to five charges, including computer misuse and money laundering. He was sentenced to 20 months jail time and ordered to pay back £407,359. Apparently he was also sitting on a pretty large stash of cryptocurrency.
MegaBots calls it quits, puts battle robots on eBay
The era of giant battle robots appears to be over... although you might have a chance to bring it back. MegaBots has gone bankrupt after once again running out of money, and it's auctioning its 16-foot-tall Eagle Prime robot on eBay as part of the shutdown. It's a fully functional bot that even includes weapon attachments, CAD files and a shipping container full of parts, and the only real damages are its battle scars and some worn-down plastic pads. The real challenges are the support costs, as MegaBots and its co-founder Matt Oehrlein explained.
Marvel is auctioning props from its Netflix shows
The Netflix era of Marvel TV shows has drawn to a close, but that doesn't mean you'll have to walk away from it empty-handed... in fact, you might just own a piece of the shows themselves. Marvel and Prop Store are auctioning off props and costumes from Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist on August 12th through the 13th, with online bidding starting now. And no, these aren't just incidental objects that would require a freeze-frame to recognize. Many of them are major, instantly recognizable items that defined the shows.
Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million (updated)
Today, bidding on a laptop packed with some of the world's most dangerous malware closed at $1.345 million. Dubbed "The Persistence of Chaos," the Samsung NC10 contains six viruses that have caused an estimated $95 billion in damages. Despite what you might think, it's not meant to be a tool for any world domination scheme. It's intended strictly as an art piece -- though it could be used for academic purposes -- and it's currently isolated and air-gapped to prevent foul play.
