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Be cautious, free VPNs are selling your data to 3rd parties

May28
by on May 28, 2018 at 2:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


It isn’t unusual to find companies using deceptive practices when trying to market and grow their brands. One niche where this is very rife is in the VPN industry. It was recently revealed that contrary to claims on their websites, 26 of the 117 most popular VPN services log user data despite touting contrary claims in their marketing. That revelation will seem tame compared to findings on how free VPNs operate: many openly and brazenly share/sell user data. Now that new GDPR laws are enforceable, more attention is being focused on how organizations use user data for marketing purposes. When…

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This VR project shows us how animals see the world

May28
by on May 28, 2018 at 1:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


London-based design studio Marshmallow Laser Feast is using VR to let us reconnect with nature. With headsets, you can see a forest through the eyes of different animals and experience the sensations they feel. Creative Director Ersinhan Ersin took the stage at TNW Conference last week to show us how and why they created the project, titled In the Eyes of the Animal. He started by showing us a series of logos, and asked us if we recognized them. The entire audience did — they were universally identifiable. Then Ersin showed us six different kinds of leaves, and only a…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

This VR project shows us how animals see the world

May28
by on May 28, 2018 at 1:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


London-based design studio Marshmallow Laser Feast is using VR to let us reconnect with nature. With headsets, you can see a forest through the eyes of different animals and experience the sensations they feel. Creative Director Ersinhan Ersin took the stage at TNW Conference last week to show us how and why they created the project, titled In the Eyes of the Animal. He started by showing us a series of logos, and asked us if we recognized them. The entire audience did — they were universally identifiable. Then Ersin showed us six different kinds of leaves, and only a…

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Tech execs can’t be trusted to fix the monster they created

May28
by on May 28, 2018 at 1:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, syndication


Social media, smartphones, and other cutting-edge technology were supposed to improve the social experience and facilitate communications and access to information. But now they’ve become the source of many ills, including fake news, live suicides, and murders, hate speech and trolling, inescapable filter bubbles, and an immense distraction problem. In the past year, we saw an increasing number of incumbent and former tech execs acknowledge the adverse effects that their most revered products have on their users and the society in general. Their story runs oddly in parallel to that of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the fictional scientist who tried to…

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