A few friends have asked me is it possible that Facebook is listening to their phone calls or intercepting their online communications because it mysteriously seems to know all their travel plans. Well, I didn’t take it seriously until now. A Read >
Ebook news: developments in book trade and self-publishing, 2019 trends, favorite books of Obama
From: Klaava Travel Guide nonfiction ebooks
News on books, writing and publishing Self-publishing News: New Year New Predictions Alliance of Independent Authors takes a look at developments of 2018 that are likely to strengthen in 2019. Subscription platforms, artificial intelligence and blockchain Read >
Writers already use artificial intelligence software for drafting books
Writers who can develop computer software have tried creating applications that can write long form texts for years. Automatic and almost automatic tools that can write simple news reports and structure scientific papers already exist and are used for real work. Read >
The future of WordPress after release 5.0
A major release of WordPress (version 5.0) open source publishing software and a major gathering of WordPress experts (Wordcamp) coincided in early December 2018. It wasn’t a coincidence. People who had contributed to the new software could explain what was new, Read >
Ebook news: border library, authors and filmmakers disagree on EU laws, Notting Hill movie bookshop
From: Klaava Travel Guide nonfiction ebooks
News on ebooks, writing and self-publishing Haskell Library by nekonomist. How to Write Even When Life Gets in the Way Writing long works, like books requires persistence and patience. Excuses don’t advance a project. Write Nonfiction Read >
The demand for batteries show how fundamentally traffic will change
Every day, new markets and new business opportunities are discovered and created across the world. Most of them don’t go anywhere, but some do. It is not every day that a market-changing, even world-changing, new market is looking at us right Read >
Experts agree that this is the best smartphone of 2018
If you ask a generic question like “What is the best phone available at the moment”, experts tend to give different answers because they don’t know the requirements the user has for the device. Product tests conducted by offline and online Read >
Microchip implants are threatening workers’ rights
From: The Next Web
It’s not often trades unions and employers are equally worried about an issue threatening workers’ rights. But recently, the UK’s Trades Union Congress and the main body that represents British businesses, the CBI, have both voiced concerns about Read >
Think twice before buying any of these gadgets if you want to protect your family’s privacy
In addition to phones, tablets, ereaders and computers that we are frequently using, new gadgets that are marketed as home appliances have been discovered to leak private data to corporate marketing databases. Internet software development organization Mozilla examined a range of Read >
All right, there is one extremely useful thing Google does when it sucks our private data
A real life experience proved how software that is constantly spying on mobile phone users has its benefits, too. In a catastrophic situation where you can’t retrieve any data from an old Android phone – and you don’t have backup files Read >