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Flashback: Microsoft’s ‘Skinput’ research project in 2010 foreshadowed an AI gadget of 2023

GeekWire

“Skinput,” from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, circa 2010. As shown in the video below, from 2010, Skinput was a research project that projected light onto a user’s skin, using sensors to distinguish among the waves that run through the arm or hand to detect different inputs.

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ICANN sets plan to reinforce internet DNS security

Network World

In a few months, the internet will be a more secure place. It will mark the first time the key has been changed since it was first put in place in 2010. The ICANN Board at its meeting in Belgium this week, decided to proceed with its plans to change or "roll" the key for the DNS root on Oct.

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ICANN’s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch

Network World

That’s the report from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as it rolled out the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS) on Oct. So far, so good. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Internet Archive is now preserving Flash games and animations

The Verge

The Internet Archive — the non-profit digital library known for the Wayback Machine — announced that it will now preserve Flash animations and games , ahead of Adobe’s planned demise for the defunct web software at the end of 2020. Image: Puffballs United. In the years following, Adobe decided to end support for Flash on mobile.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

CTOvision

Blair Levin and Larry Downes provide an article explaining why even in failing, Google Fiber changed the nature of competition in internet infrastructure and accelerated incumbent broadband investments by years on Harvard Business Review : In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet (..)

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Google faces $1.7 billion lawsuit over AI chips patent infringement

Computerworld Vertical IT

A computer scientist, Joseph Bates, has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that the internet giant should pay $1.67 billion for using his innovations to develop processors for AI -related tasks. To read this article in full, please click here

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Three Impediments to the Internet of Things

The Investing Edge

This post is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things, along with What Nest Just Did for the Internet of Things and Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0. Also, existing Internet connections provide for transactions, not negotiation. Security needs to improve.

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