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How do we save the smartphone generation? With young people across the world increasingly reliant on smartphones, and many teens now openly admitting they’re addicted to social media, could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage, and what should we as a society do to stop it?

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The first computers were not built in a garage in Silicon Valley in California, but rather in a living room in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. This first functional computer, the Z3, was put into operation for the first time exactly 80 years ago - on May 12, 1941. In 1935, at the age of 25, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse began working on a fully automated computing machine that could do all tedious and complex math problems on its own. To realize his vision, Zuse took over his parents’ living room for several years, rounded up a group of friends to help him with the work, and quit his job. Konrad Zuse was a computer nerd long before there were either computers or nerds. Konrad Zuse finished his Z1 in 1938. The computer was freely programmable. It worked by controlling mechanical switching elements that pushed metal pins into two different positions: position “0” and position “1.” This binary principle is still the basis of every computer.

Konrad Zuse was in no way satisfied with his first attempt at building a computer. The Z1 worked like modern computers in many respects, but its mechanical switching elements often got jammed. Zuse therefore replaced them with electromagnetic relays, and in 1941 he presented his first fully functioning model, the Z3. Konrad Zuse founded the world’s first computer company – Zuse-Apparatebau (Zuse Apparatus Construction) – in Berlin in 1941. In 1949 the newly formed Zuse KG, located in Hesse, began developing mainframe computers for academic, administrative, and business use. Find more information here at Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology)

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Coronavirus or COVID-19 - for your convenience did we embed an online interactive dashboard developed and hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, to visualize and track reported cases of corona-virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in real time. It may help you to stay updated on the current pandemic - an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large global region - without having to search much across the echo-chambers partially loaded with “alternative facts” to use an “semi-official” description of BS spread across social media.....

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US-based porn website Girlsdoporn is now offline after being ordered to pay $12.8m to 22 unnamed women who appeared in videos it published. The domain has been down for about a week, according to platforms which track whether websites are working. On 3. January, a judge in San Diego ruled the firm had lied to the women about how the videos would be shared and whether they would be identifiable. The site's owner Michael Pratt is currently wanted by the FBI.

Credits content: BBC Tech

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Google has been forced to halt its latest web browser update on Android after a critical bug was discovered. A number of users reported experiencing the loss of crucial login data in third-party apps after installing Chrome 79 on their devices. The tech giant confirmed any app that accesses Chrome via Android's built-in WebView system could be affected and said it could take a week to resolve. The update has already been rolled out to 50% of Android users worldwide.

A number of apps rely heavily on WebView, while some - including Twitter Lite, a scaled-down version of the social media platform - are run entirely using the system. The latest update hasn't deleted the data, but it has changed its location and rendered it impossible to find.

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A leading research center has called for new laws to restrict the use of emotion-detecting tech. The AI Now Institute says the field is "built on markedly shaky foundations". Despite this, systems are on sale to help vet job seekers, test criminal suspects for signs of deception, and set insurance prices. It wants such software to be banned from use in important decisions that affect people's lives and/or determine their access to opportunities.

The US-based body has found support in the UK from the founder of a company developing its own emotional-response technologies - but it cautioned that any restrictions would need to be nuanced enough not to hamper all work being done in the area.

Find the whole report here on BBC Tech

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Water cooled gaming PC build from scratch! - Time Lapse 2019. The ultimate water cooled gaming pc build from scratch! This $4000 Custom water cooled gaming pc build will be given away by logitec & Mwave in their up and coming giveaway! This PC has an AMD ryzen 9 3900x CPU and a 2080 ti, both fully water cooled to perform to their maximum.

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In a interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about how he managed to mislead the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, about his life in Russia and about why the internet must be reinvented. For quite some time, though, he remained silent about how he smuggled the secrets out of the country and what his personal motivations were. Now, though, he has written a book about it.

It will be published worldwide on September 17 under the title "Permanent Record." Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online, a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor,Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic. Click image or follow this link to pre-order your copy. The book can be shipped to Mexico!

Ahead of publication, Snowden spent over two-and-a-half hours patiently responding to questions. To read the full interview visit Spiegel Online English here.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, said he wants to work with companies to put "a fair level of data control back in the hands of people". In an open letter to mark the web's 28th anniversary, Sir Tim has set out a five-year strategy amid concerns he has about how the web is being used. Sir Tim said he wants to start to combat the misuse of Social media sites and search engines must be encouraged to continue efforts to combat the problem of fake news, Sir Tim said.

However, central bodies deciding what is true or not should be avoided, he added. Sir Tim advocated transparency so users can understand how web pages appear on their devices and suggested a set of common principles for sites to follow.

Source: BBC Tech

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It’s no secret that you’re being watched online. From massive data breaches to devastating phishing scams, the user’s privacy is always at risk in this digital age. Given that we spend a lot of time on the internet, it is important we all take our personal privacy more seriously. Established fact - "respectable" sites, used by millions, like Facebook and Google, are constantly tracking you and collecting your data.

It is useful in many cases because it keeps their services free, and we see personalized ads. But data breaches like the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal raises a lot of concerns. Luckily, you can still have control over your data. Here are a few tips to get started on the path towards safeguarding your personal information online.

Don’t Use Public WiFi

Switch Search Engines

Use A Different Browser

Don’t Share Too Much On Social Media

Cover Your Webcam

Use Different Passwords For Different Sites

Don’t Use Third-Party Apps On Social Media

Following these tips, you can begin to protect your privacy online. You don’t want to fall victim to scams, and you sure don’t want your data to be used against you.

Source: A Beginner’s Guide to Personal Privacy Online

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Mary Meeker is delivering her annual Internet Trends Report — the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. There are 333 pages - here some of the significant and most interesting trends in Meeker’s report. (You will find the link to view the complete file at the bottom of this story.) Some 51 percent of the world - 3.8 billion people - were internet users last year, up from 49 percent (3.6 billion) in 2017. Growth slowed to about 6 percent in 2018 because so many people have come online that new users are harder to come by.

Sales of smartphones - which are the primary internet access point for many people across the globe - are declining as much of the world that is going to be online already is.

As of last week, seven out of 10 of the world’s most valuable companies by market cap are tech companies, with only Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, and Johnson & Johnson making the Top 10 as non-tech companies.

Internet ad spending accelerated in the US, up 22 percent in 2018. Most of the spending is still on Google and Facebook, but companies like Amazon and Twitter are getting a growing share.

Some 62 percent of all digital display ad buying is for programmatic ads, which will continue to grow.

Images are increasingly the means by which people communicate, as technology developments like faster wifi and better phone cameras have encouraged a surge in image taking. More than 50 percent of Twitter impressions now involve posts with images, video or other media; Twitter used to be text-only.

As privacy becomes a bigger selling point, expect more options to make your online communications safe. In Q1, 87 percent of global web traffic was encrypted, up from 53 percent three years ago.

The internet will become more of a cesspool: Getting rid of problematic content becomes more difficult on a large scale, and the very nature of internet communication allows that content to be amplified much more than before. Some issues: 42 percent of US teens have experienced offensive name-calling online, terrorists are being radicalized on sites like YouTube, and social media has encouraged increased political polarization.

Full Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report here...

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Interesting post by Matthew Green. Chrome signed itself into my Google account. Many technical professionals feel the same way he does: that their web browser should be just a web browser, rather than an arm of Google’s online juggernaut. This pattern of behavior by tech companies is so routine that we take it for granted. Let’s call it “pulling a Facebook” in honor of the many times that Facebook has “accidentally” relaxed the privacy settings for user profile data, and then - following a bout of bad press coverage - apologized and quietly reversed course.

A key feature of these episodes is that management rarely takes the blame: It’s usually laid at the feet of some anonymous engineer moving fast and breaking things. Read the full post here...

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What’s wrong with Facebook and how to fix it. Facebook has an enormous amount of information about you, and they’re sharing it in secretive and self-serving ways. Facebook has tightened up in the years since the most egregious sharing took place, but it’s still a massively opaque system with a frightening amount of insight into our personal lives. After so many scandals, it’s hard to trust that Facebook will do what’s right. There’s a growing sense that Facebook is a problem, but it’s become the kind of problem we resign ourselves to.

As one observer put it, Facebook has become “more a trite joke than something we’ll ever do anything about, like cable companies and the DMV and airline food.”

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Border agents have broad powers to search people crossing borders, including their phones and laptops. Border searches, including phone searches and laptop searches, have become more common in recent years, particularly in the United States. There, electronic device searches rose from 8,503 in 2015 to 30,200 in 2017.

Dealing with border agents is always stressful. Confronting them over your right to privacy can make the experience even more harrowing, not to mention inconvenient.

Read the full report here

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As if that is somethings new, or just limited to the USA! The Intercept has identified an AT&T facility containing networking equipment that transports large quantities of internet traffic across the United States and the world.

A body of evidence indicates that the buildings are central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across U.S. territory.

Intercept report here...

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Facebook under fire and losing trust for not protecting your personal data better. 50+ million users data ended up with Cambridge Analytica, the data company that helped get Donald Trump elected. Facebook tried to get ahead of the story, announcing in a blog post that it was suspending the right-leaning consultancy and that it no longer allowed this kind of data sharing. Its users - a cohort that includes 2 billion or so people - weren’t ready to forgive.

The phrase #DeleteFacebook flooded social media. (Among the outraged was WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who in 2014 sold Facebook his messaging app for $19 billion.) Listen to the podcast or read the transcript here from an interview with Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School.

He was a senior adviser at the Federal Trade Commission. He does not buy the apology served up by Facebook and Zuckerberg. He was there in 2011, the last time that Facebook got in trouble for failing to keep its promises about privacy. Tim Wu is sceptical that the company will change its ways anytime soon.

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Data breach scandal put Facebook under fire! While Facebook is facing criticism following the misuse of data of 50 million profiles, it seems like many experts on social media are trying to spread awareness so as to make others more alert about the information that they are sharing.

Web developer Dylan Curran tweeted out multiple posts informing people about the data the likes of Facebook and Google collect from users.

Explore your timeline - Rediscover the places you’ve been and the routes you’ve travelled in your timeline.

Your Activity - Rediscover the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services.

Ads Personalization - Make the ads you see more useful to you when using Google services (ex. Search, YouTube).

Apps with access to your account

YouTube search history

Further down in this thread Curran shows Facebook practices