X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, appears to have begun ramping up efforts to sell disused user handles, kicking off a program previously signaled by billionaire owner Elon Musk.Emails obtained by Forbes reveal that a team within the company, known as the @Handle Team, has begun work on a handle marketplace for…
As Notopoulos writes, the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social media means that you create an account on a server, can…
We considered the question of how our artificial constructions are visible to advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. Taking the universality of the laws of physics, we found that the maximum distance where the detection is possible is of the order of 3000 ly and under certain conditions Type-II advanced alien societies might be able to resolve this…
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Source: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people encounter online.The first phase of the European Union’s groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. The Digital Services Act is part of suite of tech-focused regulations crafted by the…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjXEPBmvRUI&ab_channel=TayoAina[/embed] “The African Building Robots That Would Change The World is a video about Silas Adekunle, an entrepreneur, and this is how he moved from Nigeria at a young age to build a robotics company in the United Kingdom called Reach Industries and his second company called Awarri. In this episode of my Made in…