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I dismantled Google’s tracking systems — here’s what happened

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 12:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Recent scandals surrounding how the world’s largest tech companies and social media platforms make use of the data they collect from consumers have led many people, myself among them, to investigate the devices and digital services they use without a second thought each day. What I and many other folks around the world found was shocking: companies like Facebook, Apple and, perhaps above all others, Google, are collecting huge sums of data from us on a daily basis, even when we’re unaware of it. Here’s what happened when I turned off all of Google’s excessive tracking services, and the shocking…

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I dismantled Google’s tracking systems — here’s what happened

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 12:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Recent scandals surrounding how the world’s largest tech companies and social media platforms make use of the data they collect from consumers have led many people, myself among them, to investigate the devices and digital services they use without a second thought each day. What I and many other folks around the world found was shocking: companies like Facebook, Apple and, perhaps above all others, Google, are collecting huge sums of data from us on a daily basis, even when we’re unaware of it. Here’s what happened when I turned off all of Google’s excessive tracking services, and the shocking…

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Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Blockchain will be useless if it doesn’t help the environment

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Alibaba chief Jack Ma thinks blockchain tech is pretty meaningless – unless it helps us transform the manufacturing industry and protect the environment. In a keynote at World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China, the star entrepreneur shared his beliefs that budding technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) have yet to prove their utility to the world, local outlet cnBeta reports. “The data age is major opportunity for manufacturers to reform the industry,” Ma said at the conference. “But blockchain and IoT will be meaningless tech unless they can promote the transformation of the manufacturing…

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Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Blockchain will be useless if it doesn’t help the environment

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Alibaba chief Jack Ma thinks blockchain tech is pretty meaningless – unless it helps us transform the manufacturing industry and protect the environment. In a keynote at World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China, the star entrepreneur shared his beliefs that budding technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) have yet to prove their utility to the world, local outlet cnBeta reports. “The data age is major opportunity for manufacturers to reform the industry,” Ma said at the conference. “But blockchain and IoT will be meaningless tech unless they can promote the transformation of the manufacturing…

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Cryptocurrency researchers ask for XMR donations to secure Monero wallets

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 12:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptography researchers have urged the Monero community to donate XMR in order to continue the development of the popular anonymous altcoin Monero. Academics Brandon Gooddall (also known as Surae Noether) and Dr. Sarang Noether have launched crowdfunding campaigns to raise money to continue investigating the usefulness of Monero multi-sig wallets (wallets that require more than one key to send transactions). The reason the academics have appealed to the community for funds is because Monero is proudly an open-source and non-profit cryptocurrency project. As there is no defining, central organization to Monero, members of its Research Lab submit funding requests to…

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