Category: Internet

Category Archives: Internet

30Oct/17

Siberian entrepreneurs mine bitcoins to heat private house

October 30, 2017InternetArticles, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Attackers, bitcoin mining farm, Blockchain, City: Irkutsk, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency and security, Decentralization, Digital currencies, Dmitry Tolmachyov, eco-friendly bitcoin mining, Economy, Geography, Geography of Asia, Ilya Frolov, Irkutsk, Irkutsk Governorate, Money, Russia, Siberia, Vladimir Putinsmbale

IRKUTSK, RUSSIA (REUTERS) – Cheap energy prices and a long winter season could make the Russian Siberian town of Irkutsk an ideal spot for eco-friendly bitcoin mining.
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08Oct/17

Google relaxes its ad rules

October 8, 2017InternetAlphabet Inc., Artificial intelligence, Business/Finance, Companies, Company: Apple, Company: DIGITAL CONTENT, Company: Facebook, Company: Google, Computing, Criticism of Google, Entertainment/Culture, Fred Katayama, Google, Google News, Google Search, Google Trends, Internet search engines, JASON KINT, News Corp, Online advertising, Paywall, Personalized search, Technology, Technology/Internet, Web search engine, Websites, World Wide Websmbale

Google said news websites no longer have to provide users with three free articles per day or face less prominence in search results. Fred Katayama reports. Continue reading →

06Oct/17

Tech giants in Silicon Valley crack down on hate speech

October 6, 2017InternetArticles, Chemistry, China Central Television, Chris Yeh, Closed-circuit television, Company: PayPal Hldg, Cracking, Crowdfunding, Diversity in computing, Economy, Geography of California, Google, Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, Jack Conte, James Damore, Larry Greenfield, Manifestos, Patreon, PAYPAL, Richard Spencer, Security, Sexism in the United States, Silicon, Silicon Valley, Southern, Stamping, United States, Women in computingsmbale

China Central Television (CCTV) – Tech giants in Silicon Valley are cracking down on what they have deemed “hate speech”, but experts warned the dangers of stamping out voices not in line with that in the tech industry. Continue reading →

27Sep/17

Brussels ban ads for website linking men with young women

September 27, 2017InternetBelgium, Brussels, Europe, Geography of Europe, Netherlands, Rudi Vervoort, Sigurd Vedal, Sugar daddy, sugar daddy dating site, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Vervoortsmbale

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (SEPTEMBER 25, 2017) (FRANCOIS DUBUISSON) – The minister-president of Brussels has banned adverts for a sugar daddy dating site in a growing row over whether the business encourages prositution. Continue reading →

27Sep/17

Twitter to test 280-character tweets

September 27, 2017InternetBiz Stone, China, Company: Twitter, Computing, Donald Trump, Mobile telecommunications, Operating systems, Real-time web, Sampling, San Francisco, social media, Social Media & Networking, Social networking services, Software, South of Market San Francisco, Stone, Technology, Text messaging, Tweet, Twitter, Twitter usage, Twitterature, United Statessmbale

Twitter says it’s testing tweets that are as long as 280 characters with a random sample of users. Grace Lee reports. Continue reading →

09Sep/17

Supermetrics Helps Google Disrupt the BI Market

September 9, 2017InternetAdWords, Alphabet Inc., Business intelligence, CapitalG, Companies, Company: Google, Company: Supermetrics, Computing, DoubleClick, Finland, Google, Google Ads, Google Data Studio, Helsinki, Microsoft, Online advertising, Search engine marketing, Technology, Technology/Internet, World Wide Web, Yahoo!smbale

Supermetrics announces a new product and is Google’s top partner for bringing marketing data into Google Data Studio, Google’s new business intelligence tool that challenges incumbent players in the BI market Continue reading →

07Aug/17

Chinese robots taken down after rogue outburst

August 7, 2017InternetAnita Li, Asia, Chatbot, China, Chinese Communist Party, Companies, Countries, Country: China, East Asia, Fiction, Government of China, Instant messaging, Internet bot, Jinping, Natural language parsing, Robot, Rogue, Technology/Internet, Tencent, United States, Worldsmbale

China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, responding to users’ questions with one saying its dream was to travel to the United States and the other admitting it wasn’t a huge fan of Chinese Communist Party. Grace Lee reports. Continue reading →

04Aug/17

Google program to track shoppers draws federal complaint

August 4, 2017InternetAlphabet Inc., Android, Company: Google, Computing, Consumer Watchdog, digital technology, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Google, Google Search, Information governance, Internet privacy, Law, Medical privacy, NEXT MEDIA, Operating systems, Privacy, Privacy concerns regarding Google, Privacy law, Structure, Technology/Internet, Terms of servicesmbale

A new Google tracking program that links shoppers’ offline purchases to their web activity is drawing concerns over privacy and data security, and has prompted one privacy watchdog to file a federal complaint. Continue reading →

30Jul/17

Damascus unveils giant ‘newspaper’

July 30, 2017InternetCity: Damascus, Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Entertainment/Culture, Geography of Asia, Levant, Monzer Nizha, Nadine Al-Habar, Ottoman architecture, Syria, Technology/Internet, Western Asiasmbale

A supersized ‘newspaper’ has been unveiled in Damascus, spanning the corner of a hotel in the Syrian capital.
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27Jul/17

Google hopes to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills – CEO

July 27, 2017InternetAlphabet Inc., Artificial intelligence, Business/Finance, California, Companies, Company: Google, Geography of Africa, Google, Lagos, Nigeria, Pichai, San Francisco Bay Area, Sundar Pichai, Technology/Internet, World, World Wide Web, Xsmbale

LAGOS, NIGERIA (JULY 27, 2017) (GOOGLE) – Alphabet Inc’s Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said on Thursday (July 27).
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