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The World Wide Web turns 30
Life, James Hein, Published on 10/05/2023
» The public version of the World Wide Web turned 30 recently. Back in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext system called Mesh. The next year he added a hypertext GUI browser and editor and called the result the WorldWideWeb. Inside CERN, people loved it and by January 1993 the world had around 50 HTTP servers. By February, the first graphic browser appeared known as Mosaic and by April of that year, CERN decided the project belonged to humanity and the public domain version of the WWW was born. The rest and billions of web pages later, is history.
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Clones, noseprints, flying taxis: Sci-fi meets reality at expo
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» BARCELONA: The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is primarily a pow-wow for the big-wigs of the telecom industry, but far from the main thoroughfares of the vast conference there are always hidden tech gems.
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AI, do my homework! How ChatGPT pitted teachers against tech
AFP, Published on 15/01/2023
» PARIS: Know-it-all chatbots landed with a bang last year, convincing one engineer that machines had become sentient, spreading panic that industries could be wiped out, and creating fear of a cheating epidemic in schools and universities.
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Musk signals Twitter going to 'war' with Apple
AFP, Published on 29/11/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter owner Elon Musk on Monday opened fire against Apple over its tight control of what is allowed on the App Store, saying the iPhone maker has threatened to oust his recently acquired social media platform.
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Twitter takeover raises fears of climate misinfo surge
Published on 08/11/2022
» Climate deniers looking to block action and "greenwashing" companies could have free rein on Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, analysts warned as leaders pursued anti-warming efforts at the COP27 summit.
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Can AI gain sentience?
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/06/2022
» Media coverage of artificial intelligence tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing a spaceship’s passengers. Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity to survive.
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Moving images to the next level
Life, James Hein, Published on 16/03/2022
» Let's start this week with a couple of software and technology announcements. The first is from the developer Dominic Szablewski. He has developed a simple, new image format. You will have heard of PNG, JPEG, MPEG, MOV and MP4, which he calls complex. Enter the Quite OK Image Format (QOI). Most of the older formats are closed, need libraries and a lot of computing power to implement and use.
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You get what you pay for
Life, Sithikorn Wongwudthianun, Published on 22/12/2021
» Is the baseline MacBook Pro 14-inch worth the investment? Is the M1 Pro chip really better than its previous Intel chip? How is battery life and fan noise? Is it that heavy? Does it have a better screen? And the elephant in the room, how is the screen notch?
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Humans bigger threat than AI, says chess legend Kasparov
Life, Published on 17/11/2021
» Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was beaten by a supercomputer -- but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he is firmly convinced that it's the humans who pose the real threat.
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Is bigger better?
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 12/11/2021
» Much like the iPhone 13, the Apple Watch Series 7 at first glance doesn't look radically different from its predecessor. However, once you get to use it, there are a couple of new features that set it apart from the previous model. The question though is whether it's a worthy upgrade.
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