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A GPS-Based Bug Could Roll Back Your Devices to 2002

Gizmodo

No one needs low-rise jeans to come back. Or capri trousers. And though they were supremely comfortable for their time, the Juicy Couture tracksuit can stay in the vault we put it in. Time has to stay synced precisely to the second, to prevent there from making a comeback. But a bug in the time rollback checking code… Read more.

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Cyber Safety Review Board finds Microsoft security culture ‘inadequate,’ calls for accountability

GeekWire

At one point, the report says Microsoft’s leaders need to consider refocusing its product development, prioritizing security features over new product features, effectively reviving the spirit of the “Trustworthy Computing” initiative that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously instituted in 2002.

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The past, present, and future of location-based mobile social networking

Trends in the Living Networks

I have long believed that location-based mobile social networking is central to how technology will connect us. The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people’s familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is – finally – ready to take off. The Present.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan.

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Your future brain chip is now $280 million closer

Dataconomy

Clarium Capital Management LLC was established by Peter Thiel in 2002 as a hedge fund that specializes in macro investment methods. By combining his firm Confinity with X.com, he co-founded PayPal, a thriving online payment network. We’re extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors

CTOvision

Founded in 2002, San Francisco-based ARTIS Ventures supports and partners with entrepreneurs who are driven to positively impact their world through disruptive technological innovation. Notable companies the firm has backed include YouTube, Nimble Storage, Practice Fusion, Aruba Networks, Quid, Omicia and Stem CentRx among many others.

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