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Bots drove nearly 40% of internet traffic last year — and the naughty ones are getting smarter

Apr17
by on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Distil Networks today published its 2019 Bad Bot Report, which looks at the current state of automated web traffic, both good and bad. The paper highlights some startling figures, including that bots accounted for 37.9 percent of all online traffic during 2018. This is a admittedly a startling number, but it actually represents a welcome decrease on last year’s figures. This decrease can be found across legitimate bot traffic (like, for example, the scrapers travel sites use to identify flight deals) as well as ill-intentioned bots (like those used to conduct denial-of-service attacks). These slumped by 14.4 percent and 6.4…

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2Do is the highly rate Mac app that helps you get more done, and it’s $30 off

Apr17
by on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


Once you dig into 2Do, you’ll find stacks of cool time-saving features that can be deployed in seconds. It starts with Quick Entry, which allows users to insert notes, URLs, addresses and more within seconds. From a full complement of sort, focus, tag, location and date-range filters, 2Do lets you keep, organize and manage all your workflows any way you like.

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Carrefour wants to track 20% of its products on the blockchain by 2020

Apr17
by on April 17, 2019 at 11:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Carrefour is betting big on distributed ledger tech. The french supermarket behemoth wants to track 20 percent of all of its in-house products on the blockchain by the end of 2019. The retailer already uses the technology to track 20 out of its 300 Carrefour-branded products across the supply chain, but it plans to add about 40 more goods to the list over the coming months, Carrefour blockchain program director Emmanuel Delerm told Hard Fork. The company’s blockchain pilots are currently running in six countries, including France, Italy, Spain, and China. Carrefour customers can access detailed information about the origin…

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Carrefour wants to track 20% of its products on the blockchain by 2020

Apr17
by on April 17, 2019 at 11:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Carrefour is betting big on distributed ledger tech. The french supermarket behemoth wants to track 20 percent of all of its in-house products on the blockchain by the end of 2019. The retailer already uses the technology to track 20 out of its 300 Carrefour-branded products across the supply chain, but it plans to add about 40 more goods to the list over the coming months, Carrefour blockchain program director Emmanuel Delerm told Hard Fork. The company’s blockchain pilots are currently running in six countries, including France, Italy, Spain, and China. Carrefour customers can access detailed information about the origin…

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Why the new breed of entrepreneurs looks beyond making a profit

Apr17
by on April 17, 2019 at 11:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider


Big tech is broken. From Uber’s sexual harassment scandal to Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony and Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown, tech disillusionment is definitely starting to set in for many people. It’s a shift that’s perceptible everywhere. Last month, at SXSW — normally an unabashed celebration of new tech — Elizabeth Warren, one of Big Tech’s biggest enemies, was one of the main speakers.   A growing number of people in the industry dares to ask the hard questions: What do we do about privacy? How do we keep AI in check? Can personal data be harnessed to do good? At…

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