Zotte dingen op de website van Privacy International: The world is being rebuilt by companies and governments so that they can exploit data. Without urgent and continuous action, data will be used in ways that people cannot now even imagine, to define and manipulate our lives without us being to understand why or being able […]

R.I.P. “Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created. A super hero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect. The scale of his imagination was only exceeded by the size of his heart,” said Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, […]

In een interview met The New York Times: One of the things that’s not well understood, I think, is that we operate in many countries where there is censorship. When we follow “right to be forgotten” laws, we are censoring search results because we’re complying with the law. I’m committed to serving users in China. […]

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Interessant interview van StreetsBlog USA met ene Manuel – I kid you not – Calvo: “In mobility issues, my experience is that consensus is impossible, because there are so many interests,” he said. “So you have to make an agreement with most of the people. But taking into account — being clear — that something is being done.”

Al je friendly neighbourhood tech bloggers zijn na het podcasten nu ook aan het vloggen geslaan. Na enkele pogingen slaagt Marco Arment erin een heel goeie stijl aan te slaan, rustig (geen hippe technobeats) en relevant (geen lijstje tech specs, maar zijn eigen gebruik: zoals het stukje over vingerafdrukken op het scherm). www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBD_48AY0Zc

Prachige visualisaties van historische sportdata door Sam Vickars bij The Pudding.

Mooie en eerlijke round-up van heel wat reviews, door Michael Tsai. Na twee dagen kan ik bevestigen: het is de beste, zotste iPad ooit. Maar het blijft inderdaad iOS dat voorzien is op “een grote iPhone”. En de hardware is klaar om eerder “een alternatieve Mac” te zijn. Tijd voor Apple om iOS te splitsen, […]

Education Week: The hack started small, in 7th grade, when they bypassed their middle school’s internet filters to watch YouTube during lunch.  But by the time Jeremy Currier and Seth Stephens were caught, more than two years later, their exploits had given them extraordinary reign over the computer network of the Rochester Community Schools, a […]

Schoon gezegd door Obama, gequote door David Remnick in The New Yorker: Even in his exhaustion and bewilderment, Obama painted a picture of voting that was half hopeful. “I love the stillness and the mystery of the day or two before elections, because in a lot of ways everything goes radio-silent,” he said. “Nobody at […]