Seven Tech Trends From 2015
Walt Mossberg has published a list of seven tech trends from 2015 that is definitely worth reading. I think most of his observations are pretty spot on, what do you think?
Tech journalists, enthusiasts and investors are always waiting for The Next Big Thing, the compelling new device, app or service that will captivate — and change — the world. Like Google search, or the iPhone, or the Kindle, or Facebook. But nothing like that happened in 2015. It wasn't for lack of trying. All the big tech companies, and some small ones too, brought out new things and, in my reviews, I liked some and not others. Some sold well, others flopped.
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Debian Linux Founder Has Passed Away
According to this blog post, Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian Linux has passed away. He was 42 years old. No cause of death was given.
Dear friends and members of the open source community, It is with great sadness that we inform you that Ian Murdock passed away on Monday night. This is a tragic loss for his family, for the Docker community, and the broader open source world; we all mourn his passing. To Ian's children, family and loved ones, we offer our full support and deepest sympathies.
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Microsoft Has A Selfie App For iOS
A.) I didn't know you needed an app to take a selfie. B.) I had no idea Microsoft even made a selfie app for iOS. I guess you learn something new every day.
A new iPhone app, appropriately titled "Microsoft Selfie," promises to help improve your front-facing camera game by automatically adjusting exposure and clearing up your horrible skin imperfections (at least that's what it seemed to do for me). It also reduces noise and takes into account a variety of factors like age, gender, skin tone and lighting when making its adjustments.
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This Was The Year Tech Became The Bad Guy
Technology is the bad guy ? Amazon Prime is evil?
In 2015, we learned that the tech industry in many ways is a lot like Washington. As much as Silicon Valley likes to portray itself as a noble practitioner of well-intentioned entrepreneurship and innovation, that image itself is largely the product of spin. Tech, it turns out, is very much about image. It's about power. And it's about politics.
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Facebook's Free Internet Service Shut Down In Egypt
First it was India, now Egypt, it seems Facebook's Free Basics program isn't too popular with some foreign governments.
A program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians was shut down on Wednesday, social media site Facebook said. In a statement to The Associated Press, Facebook said it hoped to "resolve this situation soon" so the program, which it had launched with Etisalat Egypt some two months ago, could be restored.
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Valve Explains Account Issues On Christmas Day
Valve announced today that about 34,000 Steam members were able to view incorrectly cached pages which contained sensitive personal information of other Steam users, including billing and email addresses. According to the press release, the glitch was triggered by a denial-of-service attack on Christmas day.
Early Christmas morning (Pacific Standard Time), the Steam Store was the target of a DoS attack which prevented the serving of store pages to users. Attacks against the Steam Store, and Steam in general, are a regular occurrence that Valve handles both directly and with the help of partner companies, and typically do not impact Steam users. During the Christmas attack, traffic to the Steam store increased 2000% over the average traffic during the Steam Sale.
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Google Asked To Remove 558M "Pirate" Links In 2015
Over a half a billion takedown requests in a single year has to be some kind of record. I'm not saying they are taking this too far but that's 63,927 take down requests per hour for an entire year.
Copyright holders asked Google to remove more than 560,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine in 2015. The staggering number is an increase of 60% compared to the year before. According to Google the continued surge is a testament that the DMCA takedown process is working, but some copyright holders disagree.
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Twitter Diversity Pick Stirs Controversy
Well that escalated quickly. The guy hasn't even taken the reigns at his new job and he's already getting bashed.
Twitter, under fire for the striking lack of women and minorities in its ranks, has set off a new controversy by hiring a white man to lead its diversity efforts. Apple's diversity chief Jeffrey Siminoff will replace Janet Van Huysse as Twitter's vice president of diversity and inclusion, the San Francisco company said Monday.
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T-Mobile: We're Not Throttling YouTube, We're 'Optimizing' It!
Countering YouTube's recent allegations that it is throttling video content, T-Mobile claims that it is simply providing its users with speeds that are appropriate for use on mobile networks.
"Using the term "throttle" is misleading," a representative tells me in an e-mail. "We aren't slowing down YouTube or any other site. In fact, because video is optimized for mobile devices, streaming from these sites should be just as fast, if not faster than before. A better phrase is "mobile optimized" or a less flattering "downgraded" is also accurate."
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Facebook Must Face Shareholder Class Actions Over IPO
It looks as though Facebook will be facing at least two class action lawsuits relating to the company's IPO back in 2012. Facebook says it will appeal the ruling.
U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said retail and institutional investors who claimed they lost money by purchasing Facebook shares at inflated prices may pursue their respective claims as groups. The decision is dated Dec. 11 but had been kept under seal, which Sweet lifted in an order made public on Tuesday.
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Internet Speeds In The U.S. Have Tripled Since 2011
What was your internet connection speed back in 2011? What is it now? I can't complain, my connection speed went from 50Mbps in 2011 to 300Mbps for the same price, thanks to free upgrades from my ISP.
U.S. Internet connection speeds have tripled over 3-1/2 years to keep up with consumer demands for streaming video and downloading content but the United States still lags many other countries. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a report on Wednesday average download connection speeds had increased to nearly 31 megabits per second (Mbps) in September 2014 from about 10 Mbps in March 2011.
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A Sonar Glove That Can Detect And Feel Unseen Objects Underwater
Researchers have built a 3D printed haptic feedback glove that uses echolocation to detect underwater objects. The glove design is also available as a DIY kit.
A haptic sonar glove developed by Ph.D. candidates Aisen Carolina Chacin and Takeshi Ozu of the Empowerment Informatics program at Tsukuba University in Japan allows wearers to "feel" objects that are just out of reach in underwater settings. In situations where there's limited visibility, like flooded streets in an emergency, gloves like these could prove especially useful.
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