Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 887
Feb 5, 2019
Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the companyâs ânumber one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products.â
And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClickâs massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names and other personally identifiable information Google has collected from Gmail and its other login accounts.
Feb 4, 2019
âInvisibleâ reusable labels are written and read using light
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Currently, package labels contain certain information â such as barcodes, serial numbers or buyersâ addresses â that would be best left unseen by wrongdoers. Newly-developed rewritable labels could address that issue, as theyâre blank and transparent unless exposed to a certain type of light.
Feb 3, 2019
Houston We Have a Podcast returns with the final part of the Apollo 8 series
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: futurism, space travel
Vanessa Wyche, deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, leads a panel discussion with key players of the Apollo program to learn critical lessons that can be applied to NASAâs future human spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars. https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/apollo-8-part-2
Feb 3, 2019
Why Facebookâs Banned âResearchâ App Was So Invasive
Posted by Steve Nichols in category: futurism
Until Apple revoked its privileges Wednesday, Facebook was paying iOS users $20 a month to download and install the data-sucking application.
Feb 2, 2019
What.IfVideosWhat If You Lived 50 Years into the Future?
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Nuadha. often known by the title AirgetlĂĄm (âsilver handâ), was the first king of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann. He is one of the characters represented in WB Yeatsâs twilight magickal world of Celtic Nuada had his lost arm replaced by a working silver one by the physician Dian Cecht and the wright Creidhne (and later with a new arm of flesh and blood by Dian Cechtâs son Miach). A lot of our druidic and Celtic past has been purposefully obliterated by monotheism â but this creative heritage may yet be more useful to us going forwards.