Technology
Google’s Scrapping Third-Party Cookies
Eerke Boiten De Montfort University Eerke Boiten is the Head of the School of Computer Science and Informatics at De Montfort University, and the Director of the Cyber Technology Institute, an EPSRC/NCSC accredited Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. Google has announced plans to stop using tracking
Meet Breadtube, the YouTube Activists Trying to Beat the Far-Right at Their Own Game
Alexander Mitchell Lee Australian National University I am a PhD student at the Australian National University studying Croatian Nationalism in Australia during the Cold War. I have worked in University Planning Performance and as a tutor at the School of Strategic Studies. YouTube has gained a reputation for facilitating far-right
A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article
Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. How I Survived
How the World Ran Out of Semiconductors
Hamza Mudassir Cambridge Judge Business School Hamza Mudassir the co-founder and managing director of technology and strategy firm, platypodes.io. He has held several senior strategy and product management positions in leading technology companies in Europe and Asia. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Judge Business School, University
China’s India Cyber-Attack a Stark Warning for NZ
As I’ve reported before, New Zealand is in dire risk of being isolated as the only of the Five Eyes partners to leave its critical infrastructure open to the Chinese Communist Party, by allowing Chinese telco Huawei to participate in building its 5G network. This is no small matter.
Beaming Power Down from Space
One of the major problems with solar power is not just its cost – both financial (which is usually hidden by massive, market-distorting government subsidies) and environmental (likewise conveniently hidden away in the Chinese boonies) – but its unreliability. The simple fact is that the sun doesn’t shine all the time.
The Horrifying Origin of the Chainsaw
Nothing sends a shiver up the spine quite like passing the glass display cases at the entrance to my local hospital, filled with antique surgical equipment. They look more like a props supply for the Saw horror movie franchise than a tribute to medical care. And if you’ve ever
Do Big Tech Companies Exploit Our Data?
Donovan Choy fee.org Donovan Choy is a research fellow at the Adam Smith Center Singapore and coauthor of Liberalism Unveiled. Do Big Tech companies exploit our data? This belief is so universally accepted at this point that it seems somewhat silly to even question it. The subject is a
Friday Fur
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The Facebook Fracas
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Facebook-Australian furore drew world-wide media condemnation. I don’t get it. The claim that Facebook should pay for publishing traditional media news stories was fair enough if that’s what the tech giant was doing, but it was not. Rather, it acted as a
Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls
Silicon Valley Robotics Women In Robotics robohub.org Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph.D at UC Berkeley working with
How Modern Farming Fed the World and Is Saving the Planet
Environmental activists – especially climate activists – have a long track record of not just getting the problems completely wrong, but advocating the worst responses. The Paris Agreement is a typical example: not only does it explicitly assume that climate change is an immediate existential threat to humanity (it isn’t), but
Tech Talk: ICE (In Case of Emergency)
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in