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Everything You Need to Know About the Decentralized Internet

The War-Torn Web. 7 Ways to Make Tech Work for You in 2019. What is the Web3? The Decentralized Web - Blockchain. In the early 1990’s the WWW revolutionized information. 10 years later, the Internet became more mature & programmable.

What is the Web3? The Decentralized Web - Blockchain

We saw the rise of the so-called Web2, which brought us social media and e-commerce platforms. It revolutionized social interactions, bringing producers and consumers of information, goods and services closer together, and allowed us to enjoy P2P interactions on a global scale. But always with a middleman: a platform acting as a trusted intermediary between A and B who did not know or trust each other. While these platforms have done an amazing job at creating a P2P economy, with an ever more sophisticated content discovery layer, they also dictate all rules of the transactions, and these platforms own all of our data.

In this context, Blockchain seems to be a driving force of the next generation Internet, the Decentralized Web, or Web3. Killing the Server: Redesigning Data Structures Web3 . Microsoft's Newest Data Center Is a Giant Metal Can at the Bottom of the Sea. 50 years on, we’re living the reality first shown at the “Mother of All Demos” A half century ago, computer history took a giant leap when Douglas Engelbart—then a mid-career 43-year-old engineer at Stanford Research Institute in the heart of Silicon Valley—gave what has come to be known as the "mother of all demos.

50 years on, we’re living the reality first shown at the “Mother of All Demos”

" On December 9, 1968 at a computer conference in San Francisco, Engelbart showed off the first inklings of numerous technologies that we all now take for granted: video conferencing, a modern desktop-style user interface, word processing, hypertext, the mouse, collaborative editing, among many others. Even before his famous demonstration, Engelbart outlined his vision of the future more than a half-century ago in his historic 1962 paper, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. " Of course at that time, computers were vast behemoths that were light-years away from the pocket-sized devices that have practically become an extension of ourselves.

All of the reasons why the internet is bad—a breakup letter. 1. Fall in love with the internet. Receive a free CD-ROM in the mail. Install drivers. Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever. Hossein Rahnama knows a CEO of a major financial company who wants to live on after he’s dead, and Rahnama thinks he can help him do it.

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever

Rahnama is creating a digital avatar for the CEO that they both hope could serve as a virtual “consultant” when the actual CEO is gone. Some future company executive deciding whether to accept an acquisition bid might pull out her cell phone, open a chat window, and pose the question to the late CEO. The digital avatar, created by an artificial-intelligence platform that analyzes personal data and correspondence, might detect that the CEO had a bad relationship with the acquiring company’s execs. “I’m not a fan of that company’s leadership,” the avatar might say, and the screen would go red to indicate disapproval. Uncomplicated Technology, and Why It’s Always Worth Your Money. Alea Air announces a smart, energy-efficient HVAC system. In 1970s Iran, entrepreneur Hamid Farzaneh started a company that installed heating and cooling systems into the homes of wealthy Iranians.

Alea Air announces a smart, energy-efficient HVAC system

But he noticed a problem: The HVAC systems only gave people an on-off switch to control the temperature of their entire home. That led to some rooms being too warm and others too cool because some rooms naturally heat up more than others due to window placement and how much sun they receive as the outside temperature shifts. Using Experiments to Launch New Products. Executive Summary Increasingly, companies are using experiments to guide them in their decision making—but many are still missing opportunities, or are failing to implement experiments well.

Using Experiments to Launch New Products

When it comes to the rollout of new products, one particularly effective new kind of experiment involves randomizing the introduction of new products across a set of markets. 'A window into your life': Why smart home devices might be putting your privacy at risk. All it took was a white van, a team of three hackers and a phishing email to remotely unlock Johanna Kenwood and Peter Yarema's front door.

'A window into your life': Why smart home devices might be putting your privacy at risk

The couple's home in Oakville, Ont., is automated with a number of smart devices, including their lights, thermostat, security cameras and the deadbolt on their door. "I like the security and knowing what's going on in my house when I'm away," said Kenwood. Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the. Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself.

Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the

It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads us into a sparse conference room. Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used to Be. Lifehacker. Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent. One Last Thing If you spend any time around technology, and probably even if you don’t, then you’ll probably also have heard some variation on the saying “There’s more computing power in your pocket than was used to send humans to the moon.”

Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent

It’s true, of course. The chip in the recently announced iPhone XS runs about five million times faster than the Apollo Guidance Computer. But the axiom has been true for rather longer than most people realize. The other day, I stumbled across a wonderful Twitter thread that talked about the “Great Calculator Race” of the 1970s and detailed some of the wonderful, wacky designs manufacturers unleashed upon the world. Facebook is now bigger than IBM. Better Culture Could Have Prevented Viral Comcast Call : All Tech Considered. The call center of Zappos.com gets high marks from consumers for strong customer service.

Better Culture Could Have Prevented Viral Comcast Call : All Tech Considered

Shashi Bellamkonda/Flickr hide caption itoggle caption Shashi Bellamkonda/Flickr The call center of Zappos.com gets high marks from consumers for strong customer service. Why is Comcast so bad: Puts you on hold for 3 hours when canceling. The hits just keep coming for Comcast. It was bad enough when Ryan Block recorded the infamous customer service call from hell and when another Comcast customer showed how Comcast would only refund bogus charges to his account after he revealed to them that he’d recorded a phone call with a rep who explicitly said the charges wouldn’t apply. Now Comcast is having to deal with yet another instance of embarrassingly bad service: A customer who tried to cancel his account and was promptly put on hold for three-and-a-half hours until Comcast’s customer retention offices had closed for the day.

The customer in question, YouTube user Aaron Spain, decided to take a video of his experience once he hit his third hour of Comcast customer service captivity. Technologyreview. Gur Bittan envisions a future where you’re not just capturing a regular video of a child’s first steps with a smartphone; you’re doing it in 3-D, and sharing it with friends who can manipulate the video to watch it from different perspectives—even the kid’s point of view, providing you’ve scanned the scene from enough angles.

Bittan is the chief technology officer of Mantis Vision, an Israel-based 3-D technology company that hopes to make this kind of experience commonplace. If its 3-D technology is included in mobile gadgets like smartphones and tablets, it could make something as simple as communicating with friends more immersive. We're About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It. Image: moodboard/Getty Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best).

And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently — say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes — the dead man walking isn’t some abstract or far-removed principle just for wonks: It affects the internet as we all know it. Once upon a time, companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and others declared a war on the internet’s foundational principle: that its networks should be “neutral” and users don’t need anyone’s permission to invent, create, communicate, broadcast, or share online. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.

Find Interesting Bits of Any Web Page with Reddit’s Hive Mind. 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web. Cpu info. New San Francisco billboard warns workers they’ll be replaced by iPads if the... By Paul Carr On July 17, 2014 Walking home from Pando’s office a few nights ago, I noticed this giant new billboard… Love Gigabit Seattle? Comcast has donated lots to promoter’s rival (Updated) If we’ve told you once, we’ve told you a thousand times: broadband in the United States is slow and expensive relative to much of the rest of the world. Technologyreview. Why robots are getting cuter. Jump To up. Peeling the onion: Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) fun... “The United States government can’t simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only. The Data Genius Behind Buzzfeed's Success.

Dao Nguyen, the head of data and growth at BuzzFeed, eyes half a pie and narrates a brief history of the first part of her career. "I wanted to be part of the Internet revolution," she says, explaining her stint in the late-'90s New York startup scene. She fled after the dot-com boom's implosion--a particularly messy moment for her, since she had to lay off many friends as her company, Concrete Media, went down in flames in 2001. Netflix pushes for rule allowing cities to build high-speed internet services. Netflix has called on US regulators to free up cities and local governments to build out their own high-speed internet services. How Should We Program Computers to Deceive? Just outside the Benrath Senior Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a bus stop at which no bus stops. The bench and the official-looking sign were installed to serve as a “honey trap” to attract patients with dementia who sometimes wander off from the facility, trying to get home.

Non-greedy startup CEOs who turned employees into millionaires. AIspace. AOL picks content farm founder to run TechCrunch. By Paul Carr On September 3, 2014 Oh man. Tone deaf Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles warns the world about the dangers of hackers. By Michael Carney On September 2, 2014. In defense of Amazon: An author’s dissent. Has the flawed password system finally had its day? US judge says it’s “regrettable” that IBM can’t be punished for knowingly aiding apartheid. Intelligence Gap: How a Chinese National Gained Access to Arizona’s Terror Center. This Man Has Nothing to Hide—Not Even His Email Password. A Rubik's Cube solving machine. ELI5: How can old movies be converted to HD if the original source material wasn't? Karate Kid 2 looks amazing in 1080p. : explainlikeimfive. China's first high-resolution satellite captured these 10 incredible images.

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality. I recently got 100Mbps Fiber Broadband.. Top 10 Superior Tech Products You'll Never Go Back From. Our future government will work more like Amazon. These tech worker wages will astound you - Kathleen Pender – Net Worth Plus. Is your mayor in Comcast's pocket? Use a Bottom-Up Approach to Learning to Code If You're a Beginner. Wednesday Aug. 20, 2064 — What’s Next. Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence: When Machines Know. Worst virus ever locks your files, demands Bitcoin ransom. Fulfilled by Amazon: How to get rid of old stuff immediately, sell it for more, and use Amazon as a cheap storage facility. Silicon Valley’s Secessionists. The Holo Slider Home Screen. Mandiant® - Detect. Respond. Contain.

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