Last summer, several European telecom operators (Telefónica, Orange, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom) wrote to Brussels calling on EU regulators to ban Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, a VPN-like service introduced on iOS 15 — and now available on upgraded iPhones — that protects users’ internet privacy by routing traffic through multiple…
This week has seen much media coverage in Spain about comments by Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, to British daily The Guardian in late December about the quality of meat produced by macro-farms.
For a government minister to make statements to a foreign media as influential as The…
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to become master of the metaverse, and in the process shift attention away Facebook’s myriad wrongdoings by changing his company’s name, has attracted lot of media attention, much of it about how it will change the world as we know it by allowing us to spend our…
The Chinese government’s ongoing crackdown on its technology sector has seen it implement anti-trust activities, sanctions, along with fines and threats to break up companies, resulting a new environment that far surpasses the levels of control of the United States or even Europe. The repercussions are already being felt.
An article in The Guardian, “Do smart supermarkets herald the end of shopping as we know it?”, details how supermarkets are using technology to redefine the customer experience.
When Amazon launched its checkout-less store in Seattle five years ago, after testing it out for barely a year its employees, it…
An interesting article on The Verge, “How Signal is playing with fire”, describes how Signal is moving forward with its plan, originally presented in the middle of last year after lengthy internal discussions, to allow users to make to each other via the MobileCoin cryptocurrency, that will be anonymous, easy…
The French privacy authorities (CNIL) are fining Google €150 million and Facebook €60 million for intentionally making it difficult for users to opt out of the installation of cookies on their computers, a breach of the country’s law.
According to French privacy laws, opting out of cookies on any online…
In August 2018, Apple became the first company to hit $1 trillion in value. Two years later, the company’s share price breezed past $2 trillion. And now, in January 2022, $3 trillion. Just five years ago, that was the combined market value of the five largest technology companies in the…
Theranos was, from the outset, too good to be true: Elizabeth Holmes met every stereotype of the time, a Stanford dropout who set up healthcare technology company Theranos in the early noughties and was able to attract powerful and influential investors, media advisors, and constantly announce major deals. …
Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).
Last year, the company launched a remote control powered by photovoltaic energy using home lighting…
