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Inventor of the web says the web needs to be fixed, and fast

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the English scientist credited with the invention of the World Wide Web, isn’t too happy about where said web is going.

In an open letter published Monday — a day before the WWW’s 30th anniversary — Berners-Lee outlines the issues that plague the internet today, and what he thinks needs to be done to fix them.

“While the web has created opportunity, given marginalised groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit,” he wrote. Read more…

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Marking 30 years of the web, Tim Berners-Lee calls for a joint fight against disinformation

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has published an open letter to mark the 30th anniversary of the day — March 12, 1989 — when he submitted his original proposal for an information management system that went on to underpin the birth of online services. The proposal, dubbed “vague but exciting” […]

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Facebook’s ad team shoots itself in the foot by pulling Elizabeth Warren campaign ads

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

Facebook’s gang that couldn’t shoot straight advertising department has made another blunder, this time by pulling Elizabeth Warren campaign ads touting the Senator’s proposal to break up big tech. The offending ads were pulled, according to Politico, over their use of the Facebook brand in their copy. Meanwhile, other ads that the Senator’s Presidential campaign […]

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Celebrate the birth of the World Wide Web with this Google Doodle

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

March 12, 1989 was a big day in the annals of digital history.

It was on that day that Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of what we’ve come to call the World Wide Web. And so Google has decided to celebrate in classic Google style: with a Doodle.

The Doodle, which at the time of this writing is available to our friends living on the other side of the International Date Line (what up, Mashable Australia), depicts an old-school computer slowly downloading an image of a rotating Earth — dial-up modem and all.

Notably, in a blog post announcing the internet’s 30th anniversary, Google makes an effort to head off any possible pedantic ramblings regarding the web versus the internet. Read more…

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

sudshr47 March 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical […]

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Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Google, Amazon and Facebook

sudshr47 March 8, 2019

The influential Massachusetts Senator and Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has been a longtime critic of the consolidation of economic power by Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Now she’s making their break-up a key component of her Presidential platform. Warren has just released her plan for breaking up big tech, in what seems like a watershed moment […]

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Google says Nest’s secret microphone was ‘never intended to be a secret’

sudshr47 February 20, 2019

Google said there’s absolutely, positively, nothing to worry about the secret microphone in your Nest Secure smart home hub that it didn’t tell you about. Nope, not at all. Just an oversight, said Google. No need to be alarmed. Everything is just fine. When Google announced earlier this month that its Nest Secure would double-up as […]

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Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

Google today announced its intention to acquire Alooma, a company that allows enterprises to combine all of their data sources into services like Google’s BigQuery, Amazon’s Redshift, Snowflake and Azure. The promise of Alooma is that handles the data pipelines and manages for its users. In addition to this data integration service, though, Alooma also helps […]

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Reddit says government data requests more than doubled in 2018

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

Reddit has said the number of government requests for user data has more than doubled in 2018 than on the previous year. The news and content sharing site said in its latest transparency report, posted Wednesday, it received a 752 requests from governments during the year, up from 310 requests a year earlier. Broken down, […]

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Startups, demo tables are still available for TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

TechCrunch is known for helping startups get to the next level by providing a platform for them to showcase their work at a demo table. Startup demo tables for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI on April 18 are still available for any early-stage robotics or AI startup with $3M or less in funding. This is your chance […]

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Amazon buys Eero: What does it mean for your privacy?

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

In case you hadn’t seen, Amazon is buying router maker Eero. And in case you hadn’t heard, people are pretty angry. Deluged in a swarm of angry tweets and social media posts, many have taken to reading tealeaves to try to understand what the acquisition means for ordinary privacy-minded folks like you and me. Not […]