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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

” The 30-person company has worked to create decentralized identifiers for open-source projects and efforts such as International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass. That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

I traveled to Munich for European Identity Conference several weeks ago—my first international trip since before the pandemic. Post-pandemic travel can be confusing, international travel even more so. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Vox

They say they’re in the military and are stationed abroad and it’s hard for them to travel due to the pandemic. They might say in-person dates can’t happen due to social distancing requirements or travel restrictions. I mean, they copied my picture into their driver’s licenses, into passports. And these guys are good.

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Technology Short Take 88

Scott Lowe

Travel is keeping me pretty busy this fall (so much for things slowing down after VMworld EMEA), and this has made it a bit more difficult to stick to my self-imposed biweekly schedule for the Technology Short Takes (heck, I couldn’t even get this one published on Friday!). Welcome to Technology Short Take #88! Sorry about that!

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StartupCamp Sydney: Review of six excellent Startups created in 24 hours

Trends in the Living Networks

Users can search by date, how much time you have available, how far you're willing to travel, and interests. There are 160 speed cameras in NSW and 110 people losing their licenses every day. The system is built on an open source dating platform called OSdate. iTrafficApp.com. Finding a fluffy friend for Missy.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

for more information on this open source project, and to test out the concept itself. So what we do in the open source systems is we spool that table to a column store. The one we use is Vertica because Mike Stonebreaker developed it, but you can use open source ones like redshift or snowflake.

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The promise and challenges of South Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

So while there has been a world of change in the last 13 years, South Africa is still in the midst of a transition which has a long way to travel. There is the real potential for a shift in power that will result in an undoing of much of the last decade’s economic reforms. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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