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Web 3.0 Trustless Data Technology a Boost for the Creative Economy
Web 3. 0 represents a major shift away from data monopolization and autocracy. The movement is based on peer-to-peer transactions of data between users instead of through a regulating and rent-charging intermediary. дальше »
2021-8-15 18:00 | |
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US court says scraping a site without permission isn’t illegal
An appeals court situated in California, US, today said it’s not illegal to scrape data from public websites without any prior approval. Web scraping refers to the process of collecting large troves of data with the use of web crawlers – scripts designed to lift information from web pages. дальше »
2019-9-10 18:02 | |
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Data Leaks and Deplatforming Drive Businesses Away From Web Giants
Consumers and enterprises are exiting centralized web platforms amid growing concerns over unwarranted data sharing. Loss of privacy and data leakage are the primary drivers leading users away from web giants such as Google and Facebook. дальше »
2018-12-25 05:15 | |
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The internet is toxic because humans are toxic
When in doubt, blame the robots. As Facebook has fallen from grace and struggled to reconcile its role in spreading propaganda and stoking political anger, the company has proposed a familiar solution: If the algorithm has failed, let’s just build a better algorithm. дальше »
2018-12-23 04:00 | |
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IOTA is dishing out shares of $220K bounty — if you can crack its new hash function
IOTA Foundation, the company wanting to be the cryptocurrency for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), has just launched a new hash function, and it’s dishing out shares of a $220,000 (200,000 euro) bounty to anyone that can crack it. дальше »
2018-12-20 18:00 | |
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Why GDPR pop-ups could actually violate your privacy
Have you noticed the increasing number of pop-ups asking you to consent or “agree” when you visit a website? Do you find these annoying and tend to just click accept without reading the policies? So do most people, and here’s why that’s a problem. дальше »
2018-12-20 17:00 | |
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Обновления платформы Waves: Face-ID, сканирование отпечатков пальцев и новый язык программирования RIDE
Запущенная весной 2016 года блокчейн-платформа Waves была разработана под руководством программиста Александра Иванова. В ходе проведения ICO на развитие проекта было собрано $16 миллионов. Кошелек Waves Изначально команда разработчиков Waves фокусировалась на предоставлении услуг проведения ICO, поскольку платформа позволяет с легкостью создавать и запускать токены. дальше »
2018-12-20 16:10 | |
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Researchers developed an AI robot that can assist with childbirth
Instead of looking up at the sky to see whether you need an umbrella, people increasingly ask virtual assistants such as Alexa. And they may be wise to do so. AI methods are powerful – capable of anything from analyzing astrophysical data to detecting tumors or helping to manage diabetes. дальше »
2018-12-20 12:00 | |
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Nintendo Switch’s US sales surpass the PS4 and Xbox at the same age
Nintendo today revealed the Switch has now sold over 8. 7 million units at the 21-month mark in the US, more than both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One did when they were the same “age. ” Given how little we know about the sales of at least one of the consoles past that mark, this might be the last time we get to compare the three reliably. дальше »
2018-12-19 02:24 | |
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Darknet Vendors Charge $1 per Stolen Personal Data “Account”
No one is surprised to learn that the darknet is firing on all cylinders at any given day. Numerous underground marketplaces have come to the forefront recently. Every individual platform has its own specific niche market, yet selling personal information on the deep web has become very common these days. дальше »
2018-12-19 02:07 | |
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Dry data analysis of Christmas songs to get you in the holiday mood
Can we quantify different features of music? Apparently yes; folks at Spotify have identified and measured songs’ features like danceability, accoustiness, valence, energy, pitchiness, and more. дальше »
2018-12-18 22:00 | |
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Google reportedly shuts down its Chinese censored search project
Google has stopped developing its censored search engine for China, known as project Dragonfly. The tech giant was forced to shut down a data analysis system used for its development after members of the company’s privacy team objected to it, according to The Intercept. дальше »
2018-12-18 14:04 | |
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Redditors work out player counts to over 100 PS4 games
Leave it to Reddit to parse the tiniest details of a minor feature for PS4 players and turn it into a wealth of data about games. In this case, the feature is the “My PS4 Life” videos Sony recently began offering to players. дальше »
2018-12-18 02:08 | |
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How numb are we to Facebook’s fuck-ups at this point?
Facebook apparently couldn’t get to the end of its awful 2018 without exposing even more user data — photos, in this case. But at this point, we’re so inoculated to Facebook’s colossal leaks and data breaches that I challenge anyone to summon up a more impassioned response than a slight shrug. дальше »
2018-12-15 21:45 | |
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Blockchains should have ‘privacy by design’ for GDPR compliance
General data protection regulation (GDPR) and blockchain is one of the industry’s most contentious debates at the moment. Some believe that public permissionless blockchains cannot be GDPR compliant, and that private blockchains might be the answer to blockchain’s regulatory woes. дальше »
2018-12-14 14:59 | |
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Google+ to shut down early after second major security incident
After another data leak, its second such leak in a year, Google today announced it was shutting down its beleaguered social media platform, Google+. API access will shut down even sooner, within the next 90 days. дальше »
2018-12-13 04:31 | |
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Google Search Trends show off the emotional rollercoaster that was 2018
Google today released its data on search trends in 2018. While these always reflect the state of the world over the course of the year, in this case the list of trending searches range from joyful to very, very sad — we’ve had a rollercoaster of a year. дальше »
2018-12-12 21:59 | |
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Day 1 of TNW’s Advent Deals: laser tag, wireless, and DNA
This holiday period, Plugged is running a very special advent calendar. Over the next twelve days we’ll be sharing a selection of sweet, sweet deals. Thank us later. On the first day of TNW’s advent, the lovely team gave to me… Three months of premium wireless from Mint Mobile for only $20 Mint Mobile offers an easy way to get wireless service on your phone in the US and the company is currently running an offer you’re gonna love. дальше »
2018-12-12 15:45 | |
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Starwood breach affecting 500M users reportedly part of a larger Chinese state-sponsored attack
Remember that massive breach of the Mariott-owned Starwood hotel chain from last month, which saw 500 million users’ data stolen? The New York Times reports that the intrusion was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred on by China‘s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security. дальше »
2018-12-12 09:46 | |
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Starwood breach affecting 500m users reportedly part of a larger Chinese state-sponsored attack
Remember that massive breach of the Mariott-owned Starwood hotel chain from last month, which saw 500 million users’ data stolen? The New York Times reports that the intrusion was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred on by China‘s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security. дальше »
2018-12-12 09:46 | |
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Watch: Google CEO Pichai explains to Congress that Google doesn’t make iPhones
Google‘s chief executive Sundar Pichai today appeared on Capitol Hill to answer questions about a number of issues. Most pressing were issues with the collection of data, plans for a heavily censored Chinese search engine, and how to best combat misinformation, including what role, if any, Google should play in stopping it. дальше »
2018-12-12 05:38 | |
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New LongHash Data Shows Blockchain Startups are Predominantly a Man’s World
With so much attention around the gender pay gap, women’s equality, and feminism lately, it should come as no shock that the blockchain industry has not been exempt from collecting data on the subject. дальше »
2018-12-12 05:34 | |
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85% of employees at recently launched blockchain startups are male
At this point, gender inequality in tech is well documented. As it turns out, the blockchain industry is absolutely no different – there is a staggeringly disproportionate amount of males employed by the next wave of cryptocurrency companies. дальше »
2018-12-11 20:10 | |
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Researchers show how data science techniques can find Twitter ‘amplification bots’
Researchers from Duo Security, an authentication services company owned by Cisco Systems, have published a blog post that explains how to methodically identify “amplification bots. ” These are defined as automated Twitter accounts that purely exist to artificially amplify the reach of content through retweets and likes. дальше »
2018-12-11 17:00 | |
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All those free apps on your phone are tracking your location and selling your data
In a detailed story published yesterday, The New York Times explained how several popular Android and iOS apps – some designed to simply bring you weather and sports updates – are tracking your precise location round the clock, and then selling that data to third parties. дальше »
2018-12-11 12:51 | |
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TRD COIN ICO
INTRODUCTION We want to build an exchange website known as Bittrader where many coins will be listed and the main pair will be the TRD Coin. Similar to Binance, some of the notable features of Bittrader include strong security, privacy, and untraceable features. дальше »
2018-12-11 09:03 | |
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Facebook is hiring engineers and researchers for its blockchain team
It seems Facebook is looking to step up its “decentralization” efforts. The social media giant is currently recruiting blockchain engineers and researchers. Facebook wants to add a data scientist, a data engineer, and a couple of software engineers to its growing blockchain team, according to its careers page (via SludgeFeed). дальше »
2018-12-10 14:01 | |
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Reddit’s data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr’s NSFW content
After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet reacted with predictable rage. At TNW, we speculated about whether the move would kill the platform. дальше »
2018-12-7 02:50 | |
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Mozilla and ThingsCon launch certification mark for secure IoT devices
Mozilla and ThinksCon today announced the launch of the Trustable Technology Mark, which will help consumers determine if their latest “smart” home gizmo is designed with privacy and security in mind. дальше »
2018-12-6 16:00 | |
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Internal docs show Facebook absolutely loves your data
Unless you’re waking up from a decade-long deep slumber, you know that Facebook doesn’t give two hoots about your privacy, and about how it gets your data. If that wasn’t clear, you should have a look at the 250-page document that contains the company’s internal emails, just released by the UK parliament. дальше »
2018-12-6 15:35 | |
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Switzerland says its national blockchain will be more secure than Bitcoin – it won’t be
Switzerland‘s state-run postal and telecoms services are hellbent on building a national blockchain in a bid to recruit local businesses to convert to distributed ledger technology (DLT). Swiss Post and Swisscom have shared details of joint-venture to build a completely private Swiss blockchain for launching locally operated “decentralized” applications. дальше »
2018-12-6 14:11 | |
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Millions of Brits can’t access mobile internet as O2’s data services go down
One of the largest UK phone networks, O2, is investigating a network outage that has rendered mobile data inaccessible to the company’s 25 million customers. The issue is also impacting customers of MVNOs that piggyback on O2’s infrastructure, like GiffGaff, Tesco Mobile, and Lyca Mobile. дальше »
2018-12-6 13:48 | |
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Binance Showcases Decentralized Exchange Progress in Latest Video
Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token. дальше »
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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Binance Showcase Decentralized Exchange Progress in Latest Video
Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token. дальше »
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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250-page document dump is another nail in Facebook’s coffin
As part of its investigation of Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the British government seized a huge cache of the company‘s internal documents. Despite Facebook‘s best efforts, those documents are now online. дальше »
2018-12-5 21:48 | |
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NASA sends spacecraft to meet asteroid on collision-course with Earth
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu – which may be on collision course with the Earth – after traveling for just over two years since its launch in September 2016. дальше »
2018-12-5 16:32 | |
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India’s new satellite is a first step in providing rural areas with faster internet
India launched its heaviest satellite, the GSAT-11, also called ‘The Big Bird,’ from the French space port of Kourou in South America, earlier today. The satellite is expected to provide high-bandwidth connectivity in the country, with data transfer speeds of up to 14 Gbps. дальше »
2018-12-5 14:53 | |
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415,000 routers worldwide hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrency
Researchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency. The attack, which is still ongoing, affects MikroTik routers in particular. дальше »
2018-12-4 20:38 | |
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Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows
Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner. дальше »
2018-12-4 17:27 | |
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100m Quora users’ data stolen by hackers
Quora announced today that its Q&A platform was breached by hackers on November 30, and that approximately 100 million users’ data was compromised. The attackers are believed to have accessed the following information: Account information, e. дальше »
2018-12-4 07:49 | |
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How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters
Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as a clue to their stance on women’s reproductive rights, or immigration. Yet, in 2016, this is just the type of data Cambridge Analytica poured over in attempting to sway undecided voters. дальше »
2018-12-4 02:58 | |
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Report: Some of you definitely did your Cyber Monday shopping at work
New data from analytics company Mixpanel reveals some facts about the habits of online shoppers — namely that some of you are probably doing your holiday shopping right now, even if you’re not supposed to be. дальше »
2018-12-3 21:02 | |
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DeepMind’s AI models new proteins for life-saving drugs in hours instead of years
One of the best uses of AI is harnessing its power to tackle problems that require looking at large amounts of data. To that end, DeepMind may have just cracked a way to help develop cures for diseases by simulating protein structures. дальше »
2018-12-3 15:04 | |
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What GoDaddy is doing wrong about privacy — here’s what it should do
“GoDaddy cares about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal data only as it might be needed for us to deliver to you our world-class products, services, websites, and mobile applications. дальше »
2018-12-1 17:30 | |
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Starwood hacked with over 500 million customer details accessed
If you’ve stayed at a Starwood hotel in the past few years, it’s time to buy some credit monitoring. The Marriott International-owned hotel brand has reported a massive hack that saw the details of over 500 million customers accessed by an unauthorized party. дальше »
2018-11-30 19:34 | |
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Amazon’s Glacier archiving service now lets you store 1TB for just $1 per month
Amazon has introduced a cheaper tier for its Glacier long-term data archiving service, which is useful for businesses, developers, and folks like you and me. The new Glacier Deep Archive will let you store 1TB of data in the cloud for as little as $1 per month. дальше »
2018-11-29 08:41 | |
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AI-generated fingerprints could soon fool biometric systems
Research led by two top universities has shed doubt on whether biometric security systems, on their own, can protect our most sensitive data. Humans are notoriously bad at creating secure passwords. дальше »
2018-11-29 06:52 | |
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Spotify unveils this year’s hilarious Wrapped billboards
Spotify started rolling out its Wrapped year-end billboards, where it blasts out trivia about its users and occasionally calls out the stranger ones. Most of the facts are hilarious, though it does remain a bit creepy just how much the company is willing to reveal. дальше »
2018-11-29 02:03 | |
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Project Fi is now Google Fi as it adds support for iPhones and more devices
In the three years since its launch, Google’s Project Fi has one of the most reasonable phone plans out there, but it’s been tough to recommend because the service is compatible with so few phones. дальше »
2018-11-29 23:42 | |
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