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Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace
Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea are the co-founders of Blockstack, a project to rebuild the internet using blockchain technology so that individuals can reclaim direct control over their own identities, contacts, and data. The goal is to bring the property rights we enjoy in the physical world to cyberspace.
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Over 3000 of Canada's Indigenous Lands are now on Google Maps
More than 3,000 Indigenous communities in Canada have been added to Google Maps and Google Earth. The move will allow the properties of 1.4 million indigenous people across the country, who have been historically excluded, to be represented in a base map.
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An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech
Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and free speech. They are right. The Internet has become our public square, our newspaper, our megaphone. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to turn it in something more akin to commercial cable TV, and we all have to work together to stop it.
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Petya cyber attack: Ransomware spreads across Europe with firms in Ukraine, Britain and Spain shut down
Major firms, airports and government departments in Ukraine have been struck by a massive cyber attack which began to spread across Europe on Tuesday afternoon.
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The iPhone killed my inner nerd
When I was a teenager, this time of year would be insufferable. My bedroom would be nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit without air conditioning, but it wasn’t even particularly hot outside. I had at least five tower PCs running inside my bedroom, all contributing a lot of heat to my tiny little room. Each performed its own role in my home network, with a file server, domain server, Exchange server, and media center PC among them. All of those tower PCs are now inside my pocket, thanks to the iPhone.
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British teenagers among world's most extreme internet users, report says
More than one in three British 15-year-olds are “extreme internet users” who spend at least six hours a day online – which is more than their counterparts in all the other 34 OECD countries apart from Chile, research has found. The report, by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) thinktank, says: “Over a third (37.3%) of UK 15-year-olds can be classed as ‘extreme internet users’ (6+ hours of use a day) – markedly higher than the average of OECD countries.
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Casino ATMs are using facial recognition to spot money launderers in Macau
Casino destination Macau is requiring facial recognition and identification card checks for withdrawals made by Chinese UnionPay cardholders at all ATMs, as reported by Bloomberg. Customers who make a withdrawal from the updated cash machines will be asked to stare into a camera for six seconds so the facial-recognition software can verify them against their identity card.
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Snail Mobile Reveals i7 Android Gaming Phone At MWC Shanghai
SnailMobile has officially outed its new i7 gaming smartphone via a live showing of a pre-production model at MWC Shanghai. The device is the first phone out in a while to sport physical gaming buttons and has a respectable set of modern specs to show for it. Its 6-inch display panel has is of the 1080p variety, with the handset itself being powered by the MediaTek Helio X20 system-on-chip (SoC) and 6GB of RAM. The fairly powerful processor and the large screen of the phone will see runtime that’s likewise more than ample...
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Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself
MP3s are so natural to the Internet now that it’s almost hard to imagine a time before high-quality compressed music. But there was such a time—and even after "MP3" entered the mainstream, organizing, ripping, and playing back one's music collection remained a clunky and frustrating experience.
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Illinois poised to ban geolocation tracking without consent
The US state of Illinois is poised to pass a law that makes it illegal to track a phone’s location without the owner’s consent. The law, the Geolocation Privacy Protection Act (HB3449), was passed in both houses of the state legislature last week. It’s now on the desk of Governor Bruce Rauner, ready to be signed into law.
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Google's next EU fine could be even bigger for Android violations
Google was hit with a record-breaking $2.7 billion fine last month by the European Commission for breaking antitrust laws. The EU says Google demoted rivals and unfairly promoted its own services in search results related to shopping. While the fine is the largest antitrust judgement ever, an even bigger fine could be on the way for Google.
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Hope u Like it , This is THE WORLD BIGGEST EV Scooter
Made by Editor of EvNerds for an Investor. The Scooter goes 100kmh, 10kw and a shi..load of batteries. 72v 40ah
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Verizon Disconnects Heavy Rural 'Unlimited' Data Customers
Verizon continues to boot heavy users on the company's "unlimited" wireless data plans off of the Verizon network. Users over at Howard Forums (hat tip, BGR) note that the target appears to be largely rural customers on partner carriers of Verizon's LTE in rural America program (LTEiRA), which provides smaller rural carriers spectrum and technology access in exchange for extending Verizon's cellular reach in these markets.
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A city scraps its HOV lanes. Disaster ensues.
A new study from MIT researchers, published Thursday in Science, showed the impact on a city's traffic when high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes were removed. The average speed of Jakarta drivers during the evening rush hour plummeted from 13 mph to 7 mph. In the morning, speeds fell from 18 mph to 12 mph. The impacts weren't felt solely in the HOV lanes, but across the city.
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"Chairless chair" is designed to provide support for active factory workers
This flexible exoskeleton, designed by Swiss studio Sapetti, allows its wearer to sit down whenever and wherever they need to.
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Why DxOMark scores are basically worthless
This week, following a small amount of fanfare, the OnePlus 5 nabbed a DxOMark Mobile score of 87. A day later, as if timed perfectly to demonstrate the flaws of its rating system, DxO gave the LG G6 an 84. And the Internet is suitably riled up. Comment threads suggest something untoward has happened as a result of OnePlus's recently-announced partnership with DxO. Reddit is swimming in incredulous anger.
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This $2,500 Nokia phone commemorates the meeting of Trump and Putin
Some people buy newspapers to remember historical events. Others buy customized Nokia smartphones. As first spotted by TechCrunch, a Russian phone-customization company debuted its latest creation this week: a new Nokia 3310 with embedded, gold-plated portraits of US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin on the back. The phone is meant to commemorate the two world leaders meeting at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.
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Amazon is quietly rolling out its own Geek Squad to set up gadgets in your home
For 15 years, Best Buy’s Geek Squad installation and repair service has served as one key advantage over Amazon that the e-commerce giant seemed unlikely to match. But over the last few months, Amazon has quietly been hiring an army of in-house gadget experts to offer free Alexa consultations as well as product installations for a fee inside customer homes, multiple sources told Recode, and job postings confirm. The new offering, which has already rolled out in seven markets without much fanfare, is aimed at helping customers set up a “smart home” — the industry term used to describe household systems like heating and lighting that can be c
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Self-Driving Taxis Will Become the Most Disgusting Spaces on Earth
With the entire automotive industry looking toward a future of driverless mobility, commercially owned self-driving taxis seem poised to be on the frontline of tomorrow. However, nobody seemed to realize that these vehicles will eventually become little more than mobile toilets.
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It’s our last chance to choose information independence over special interests
What if you were charged $30 dollars to access only 100 websites? Could you still stream videos online if you had to purchase a $10 “expansion bundle” every month to access video streaming services? Or would you still search the news if you had to spend an additional $20 dollars for an “extension package” every month to access Fox News, CNN, CNBC or MSNBC’s websites?
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