The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.
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Internet services such as search engines and social media platforms have increasingly been provided by a small number of very large tech firms. The blockchain could help consumers wrest control of their privacy away from them.
Facebook’s foray into digital currencies risks reversing gains in privacy and user sovereignty won by computer networking pioneers, according to one of the co-founders of ethereum.
Since 2016, Facebook employees have used Stormchaser to track many viral posts, including a popular conspiracy that the company listens to users through their phone’s microphone.
It’s often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11. But is that true? And, if so, how much more powerful are our phones?
More and more critics want to dismember Facebook. This solution would be both inappropriate and ineffective.
Few people bother to read the lengthy legal documents when signing a new cellular contract, opening a bank account or signing up for a new e-mail address. They should.
There will be stories of palace intrigue involving Jony Ive, the Apple design chief who announced Thursday that he is planning to exit the company after more than a quarter of a century. This is a simpler tale: it was time.
Among Facebook’s justifications for introducing a new digital currency, libra, the company has offered one pious rationale: to connect the 1.7 billion adults who lack bank accounts to the global financial system.
The pressure on Eskom to curb emissions is yet another reason why the utility has become the biggest headache for President Cyril Ramaphosa.