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If you’re paying for something with your data, then that makes data a currency. So it seems New Zealand is at it again when it comes to leadership on the world stage. The government has released an ‘algorithm charter‘ that aims to tackle the lack of transparency and potential bias in automated systems. This is […]

Dan Goodin for Ars Technica: The privacy invasion is the result of the apps repeatedly reading any text that happens to reside in clipboards, which computers and other devices use to store data that has been cut or copied from things like password managers and email programs I love that Apple have started to notify […]

BBC Money Box reports: Ofcom also found most people who use an address provided by their broadband company are former BT customers. BT says if customers want to switch provider but keep hold of their old BT email address they’re charged £7.50 per month to be able to access and use their account like they […]

I’ve not yet paid for a Hey.com subscription as I’m a strong believer in owning your own domain name for email, but I have to admit I that find their style of business a welcome change to the norm and reminiscent of what I can only imagine the counter-culture inspired Apple must have been like […]

On the most recent episode of ATP, John Siracusa referenced once of his early Mac OS X reviews. This prompted me to revisit his review of the Mac OS X public beta, as the evolution of computer interfaces is something that I find fascinating. In one of his screenshots, he shows the Ars Technica home […]

An Apple announcement from WWDC 2020: To reduce battery aging, AirPods learn from your daily charging routine so they can wait to finish charging past 80% until you need to use them I have long speculated that the reason AirPods are much more disposable when compared to other Bluetooth devices is that fact that their […]

.net magazine was hugely influential to me as a teenager, capturing the excitement of the Internet in the late 90s. Some of my earliest memories of using the Internet revolve around .net magazine.

With all the kerfuffle over Hey.com – an exciting new email service from the makers of Basecamp, it’s important to remember that if it takes off, Hey.com will be in a similar position to Apple. Groundskeeper of the walled garden. While the service appears to be a refreshingly original rethink on how email should work […]

As someone who is fascinated by technology and its societal impact, I often think back to the first piece of technology I remember owning as a child: A Casio Telememo 50 digital watch (photo from the Argos catalog I would have ordered it from). Back in 1996, the idea of storing phone numbers on your […]