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Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid, and Bruce Schneier
The father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee announced an ambitious project known as Solid about 18 months ago. The … Read the story...
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid, and Bruce Schneier
The father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee announced an ambitious project known as Solid about 18 months ago. The … Read the story...
Electric vehicles are changing how we move around and think about road traffic in general. One of the innovations of the battery powered vehicle is that cars automatically communicate with the car manufacturers’ data center, … Read the story...
Just when you badly need that specific email message received three or four years ago, your email service goes down. It may happen to any hosting company, although it shouldn’t be a frequent event. Or perhaps you have decided to … Read the story...
Online advertising industry must be doing something wrong if half of all internet users have ad blockers on their mobile devices and computers. Digital 2020 Global Overview report produced by a consortium of publishers, marketeers, consultancies and social media companies … Read the story...
Nextcloud is an open source software package for organizations and individuals who want to host their own secure cloud services. With additional downloadable applications, Nextcloud has more functionality than, for instance, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and Docs. When Nextcloud … Read the story...
Today, everyone is aware that Facebook, Google and Twitter, among many other free digital services sell their users’ personal data to advertisers. Many savvy users are protecting their privacy with additional software plugins to prevent this automatic data collection. Behind … Read the story...
Microsoft, the current owner of Skype internet telephone service, was recently caught listening to ordinary people’s phone conversations conducted on Skype.
The first case was reported in August 2019 when Microsoft utilized Skype’s automatic translation feature to listen to phone … Read the story...
Electric vehicles are becoming mass market products in many categories during the next few years. Volkswagen is planning to manufacture millions of electric cars, pickup trucks like Rivian are powered by batteries, and European and Japanese van manufacturers have electric … Read the story...
Programming languages are tools for creating computer applications and services. If you need a hammer, you use a hammer for a job. It sounds simple, but there are many programmers who are devoted to a language they love. They may … Read the story...
The reason why I won’t let WordPress automatically update the core software, plugins and themes is this: it is practically impossible to ensure the new version works together with thousands of possible system configuration combinations on the server.
Years ago, … Read the story...