Category: Techno Babble
Babbling ’bout tech
“We believe the internet can be better,” Mozilla to the International Grand Committee
Alan Davidson, Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security testified today on behalf of Mozilla before the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy. The International Grand Committee, composed of representatives from numerous governments around the world,...
You can do it, robot! Watch the beefy, 4-legged HyQReal pull a plane
It’s not really clear just yet exactly what all these powerful, agile quadrupedal robots people are working on are going to do, exactly, but even so it never gets old watching them do their thing. The latest is an Italian...
Emblematic Group and Mozilla Team Up to Showcase Next Generation of Storytelling on the Web
Everything you share on the internet is a story. You read blog posts and watch videos that make you feel connected to people across the world. Virtual Reality has made these experiences even stronger, but it wasn’t available to most...
Latest Firefox Release is Faster than Ever
With the introduction of the new Firefox Quantum browser in 2017 we changed the look, feel, and performance of our core product. Since then we have launched new products to complement your experience when you’re using Firefox and serve you...
Competing without a Marketing Budget: When All You Have is a Product
This is a story about the power of a good landing page, PR efforts, and marketing strategy. The refreshing twist here is that instead of explaining how I did all of these things amazingly well, I’ll walk through how my...
The Ongoing Fiasco and Mysterious Afterlife of QuadrigaCX
I’d say you were a little late to the cryptocurrency party if you haven’t heard about the ongoing catastrophe that’s been QuadrigaCX these past six months. QuadrigaCX was (note the past tense) Canada’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange. During last...
We are leaving older adults out of the digital world
Jessica Fields Contributor Share on Twitter Jessica Fields is a research analyst and program manager at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and a collaborator in The OpEd Project. May is national Older Americans Month, and this year’s...
10 OOP Design Principles Every Programmer Should Know
The Object-Oriented Design Principles are the core of OOP programming, but I have seen most of the Java programmers chasing design patterns like Singleton pattern, Decorator pattern, or Observer pattern, and not putting enough attention on learning Object-oriented analysis and design....
Watch Rocket Lab launch its second orbital mission of 2019 late tonight
Fast-growing launch provider Rocket Lab is launching its second orbital payload of the year late tonight by our reckoning, early in the evening at the launch site in New Zealand. It will carry three experimental satellites to low Earth orbit,...
Ledger Users Just Dodged a Bullet. Or Did They?
On April 25, Ledger cast a tweet to warn its users of a dangerous malware that replaces the Ledger Live application through a “fake update.” This incident highlights a critical flaw faced by most popular hardware wallets like Trezor and Ledger....
Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON’Ts
This week, I published a piece called the “The master list of PR DON’Ts (or how not to piss off the writer covering your startup).” The problem, of course, with writing a “master list” is that as soon as you...
Top 10 skills of developers in 2019
Top 10 Skills of Developers in 2019 A decent developer is a huge rarity. The problem is not even in the poor knowledge of programming language, but in an integrated approach. The modern developer should not only comprehend, but also integrate...
Huawei Still Has Friends in Europe, Despite US Warnings
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned US allies in February against using technology built by Chinese telecom giant Huawei, going so far as to suggest the US might stop sharing intelligence with countries whose communications infrastructure rely on Huawei’s...
Internet connectivity projects unite as Alphabet spinout Loon grabs $125M from SoftBank’s HAPSMobile
Two futuristic projects are coming together to help increase global internet access after Loon, the Google spinout that uses a collection of floating balloons to bring connectivity to remote areas, announced it has raised money from a SoftBank initiative. HAPSMobile,...