The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. AWS was a commercial product that would provide the backbone for companies to run their own internet businesses from the cloud. Shaw & Co. Image: Amazon.

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Vox

JUNE 9, 2021

Fame, it seems, is not a viable currency on the app unless the user is already internet famous. Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. Snap brought in about $2.5

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2021

With Among Us and the newest Animal Crossing in particular, gaming as a social event came to the forefront like it never had before, because in 2020, your real-life friends and your internet friends were effectively the same people. Recapping a wild year for games. Then, of course, COVID-19 hit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Then came the arrival of 5G, edge, and the Internet of Things (IoT). For instance, IDC found that 84 ZB of data was created, captured, or replicated in 2021, but just 10% of that data could have been used for analysis or artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models 1. 2021, September 28). 3] © Copyright IDC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Then came the arrival of 5G, edge, and the Internet of Things (IoT). For instance, IDC found that 84 ZB of data was created, captured, or replicated in 2021, but just 10% of that data could have been used for analysis or artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models 1. 2021, September 28). 3] © Copyright IDC.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks the metaverse will be the next iteration of the internet, a technological shift akin to the mobile phone.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The service, PlutoSphere , is meant to stream games live over the internet to compatible VR headsets without the need for a local PC as a go-between. It also requires 50 Mbps of bandwidth and a 5 Ghz WiFi 6 internet connection. billion on games and hardware. The official PlutoSphere logo. Pluto VR Image). Pluto VR photo).

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

It is even weirder to own a Zune in 2021 — let alone 16 of them. If you talk to them, they’ll tell you that these MP3 players are the best pieces of hardware to ever run a Windows operating system. And yet, 27-year-old Conner Woods proudly shows off his lineup on a kitchen table. Photo by Conner Woods. Picked up this beauty for $25.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

Now it’s 2021 and you have a massive product line, you have different products in all kinds of different stores. I would show up at retailers where I thought it would make a lot of sense, like some of the hardware channels. One of the reasons I wanted to have you on the show was to talk about your social media strategy.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Air-gapping a device or system is thought of as a way to isolate your device from the internet, or other public-facing networks, so that it is highly secure and untouchable to threat actors. For the most part, it's a very good way to secure your device. Though, there are exceptions. The data can be textual (e.g.,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Social sites more often give users the ability to add alt text or captions to their content, and more people are learning to use them. You assume every game has remappable keybinds — it’s 2021, they should,” he says, “but you’d be surprised.”. Hardware improvements. Another major element of game accessibility is hardware.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The video game industry came into 2021 with a lot of momentum , with millions of new customers, high sales, and venture capitalists falling over each other to put more money into the system. There have still been successes, surprises, and big hits, but 2021 in games has been a story about what could have been. Bungie Image).

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Patrick Von Sychowski from the Celluloid Junkie joins the Hacker Mind podcast to discuss his SecTor 2021 talk on Ghost #1, explaining how the transition from 35mm to digital in theaters and how unique third iteration of cinema in China allowed this digital projector to evade anti-piracy safeguards for nearly three years.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Of course, there’s plenty of discussion to be had about what does or does not count as a robot — to anyone with a smart home setup, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant could be considered robots, as they can do any number of tasks if you buy the necessary hardware. Image: Byte Magazine / The Internet Archive. Release year: 2021(?).

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Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Those plans are now coming into focus: Facebook is now called Meta, and it’s not just a social media company, it’s a metaverse company. And as the new name implies, Meta wants to win in this space, just as Facebook won in social media. Regulators are paying attention. Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

The company says that device is coming in 2021 , but we’ll believe it when we see it. At the time, Segway told The Verge it planned a 2020 launch for businesses and a 2021 launch for consumers, though it didn’t yet have a price to announce. Throw a chainsaw on it and it’s ready for 2021. Segway S-Pod. Current status: Vaporware.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Sometimes, even when you do pay, your data still might not be recovered.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Sometimes, even when you do pay, your data still might not be recovered.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along the lines of the internet and mobile revolutions — or is it simply a lot of hot air? Rapid development in 3D, AR, VR, new hardware, digital payments, etc., Meta Photo). What is the metaverse? How far off is it? Has this changed? ” Kirby Winfield of Ascend.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It also feels like we’ve reached an inflection point for game streaming: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all have services that allow you to play games on any device by streaming them over the internet — a plan that has led to controversy and conflict with Apple, which has put up roadblocks for these services in the iOS App Store.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If your internet and home network is strong, Nvidia’s GeForce Now will give you a free virtual PC for an hour at a time that you can play free games on. As for the weird, experimental Nintendo that relied on quirky hardware? Games have become de facto social spaces. It’s the ultimate cheapskate move. Tom Warren. Taylor Lyles.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Hypponen: We had a bright moment in malware history, starting from October 2021. Russia has been actively using disinformation to wage an information war against Ukraine but now Ukraine is fighting back with the digital Minister Mikhail Obrador leading the front by using social media to rally international support against Russia.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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Vox

AUGUST 1, 2023

Policymakers have been focusing on similar issues in social media and online advertising for some time now, with common proposals including a full ban on using personal data to target ads , and FTC action to require “data minimization” in which websites can only collect data relevant to a narrow function of the site.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go — it makes software that allows businesses of all sizes to set up online stores, and from there it can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. We wanted to sell snowboards on the internet. You either listed it on a marketplace.

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

But the very next year, Microsoft began bundling its new Internet Explorer browser with Windows 95. Not only was Internet Explorer the default web browser on Windows 95 computers ( and Macs ), but Microsoft also made it nearly impossible to uninstall Internet Explorer and very difficult to install a competitor’s browser.

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