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A new milestone for Europe: provisional agreement on digital identity
In November, the European Union made a major step towards eID, with [https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/11/08/european-digital-identity-council-and-parliament-reach-a-provisi
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Car thieves are bad, but much wiser than car makers
Thieves have a new way to steal cars. A method for clean thefts, served on a silver platter by car manufacturers who sell cars equipped with key fobs instead of traditional keys, [https://www.cbc.ca/n
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Cookie consent: how many clicks should the ePrivacy Directive cost citizens?
By now, everyone has consented to cookie usage hundreds of times. All technologists are aware this phenomenon was started by ((wp:ePrivacy Directive|the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive
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Dyson sphere
I remember being halfway through high school when I had the idea of optimizing solar energy by putting panels around the Sun and relaying the energy to Earth. I did not promote the idea a lot at the t
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Germany to achieve full eID By 2022
According to Associated Press, Germans should be able to store their identity on PC-s this Fall!
Meanwhile, in Cana
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Google Maps driving you nuts? Welcome to the anonymous road club
Fast Company has written a 5-point rant against Google Maps . The first 4 points honestly don't bother me much... but as
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Les « décrypteurs » de Radio-Canada : à bas la désinformation… sauf à la maison
Une des très rares émissions télévisuelles sur laquelle je garde un œil est Décrypteurs de Radio-Canada. En raison de son sujet des plus actuels : la désinformation. Le concept :
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Patently sad hurdles for interoperability progress
2022-11-19 Update: It appears this won't cause a real problem.
It has already been mo
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Smart technology makers, dumb technology users
With the advent of smart TVs, smartphones and other computers, humans need to be a lot smarter about their usage of technology. Unfortunately, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide
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Technological deceleration: a symptom of fragmentation and severe health hazards
One year ago, KNP warned against the perils of fragmentation . What’s happened since then:
• Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO.
• …and both started [https://www.p
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Technological evolution, a promise of unsurpassed repression?
If the 20th century was generally favorable to democracy, {MOUSEOVER(label="many see the 21st century as a different story" sticky="y")}[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocr
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Technological maturity at hand? Google's Pixel 8 smartphone
For well over a decade now, handheld PCs have been one of technology's hottest topics. In 2021, more than a year after my Motorola Nexus 5X's Android had lost its security support, I decided it was ti
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The elusive tech panacea - Solid state drives
This century has seen 2 revolutions in computer hardware: LCD screens and SSDs. In terms of computing, SSDs promised an order of magnitude of speed improvement, with greater reliability.
But in tec
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The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age... and the Lead Age?
Minerals have shaped human (pre)history. A few million years after the Stone Age came the Metal Ages . Copper allowed the Copper Age and the Bronze Age, after which
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XL-ent news: JPEG XL
Ever since I heard about JPEG 2000 , I have been waiting to see a new, efficient image format replace JPEG (1992). Needless to say my wait is getting long.
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