I’m sure most of us knows someone who illegally downloads music, games, software, art, books, etc. It is a rampant problem in those industries with no sign of improvement.
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So it turns out, Google was a pretty good investment for some people. Okay, that’s hardly news today – but we see it reflected in the way the corporation is constantly driving forward, innovating their services and back-room strategies in an ever-greater quest for power and influence.
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Google’s multibillion-dollar business was built by collecting all the information available to its users. Selfish Ledger is a video produced by Google that offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling perception of how some people at the company envision to use that information in the future.
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You have probably noticed a flood of emails and alerts from companies in the last few weeks informing you about changes to their privacy policies. Don’t ignore them. Read them!
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? Car horns symphonise accompanied by a chorus of yelling cyclists as I shimmy on foot through oncoming traffic….
…Your bot looks cute but it’s easy to crack…
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At first blush, you might be wondering why anyone would need to scan a Linux server for malware.
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Self-made millionaire James Altucher has some strong opinions when it comes to the value of college.
In many cases, “a degree means nothing,” he tells Farnoosh Torabi on a recent episode of her podcast “So Money.”
“We’re in an idea-based economy and a skill-based economy, not a certificate based economy,” he continues. “We used to be in a certificate-based economy. It’s just not true anymore.”
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Google is working on blockchain-related technology to support its cloud business and head off competition from emerging startups that use the heavily-hyped technology to operate online in new ways, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the fractions—all the numbers you’ve known since elementary school.
They’re the counting numbers and the fractions—all the numbers you’ve known since elementary school. But in mathematics, the simplest things are often the hardest to understand. They’re simple like a sheer wall, without crannies or ledges or obvious properties you can grab ahold of…
….Sets of numbers can have symmetry, too, and the more symmetry a set has, the easier it is to understand—you can apply symmetry relationships to discover unknown values. Numbers that have particular kinds of symmetry relationships form a “group,” and mathematicians can use the properties of a group to understand all the numbers it contains….
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Linux has become the de facto open-source operating system (OS), although there are niche alternatives like flavors of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). A variety of incarnations target minimal memory platforms such as Ubuntu Core/Snappy and Android Things.
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