Giacomo Bagarella Contributor Giacomo Bagarella works for the Massachusetts Digital Service, where he leads projects to improve the way the state serves constituents. In his spare time, he thinks and writes about the impact of emerging technologies on society and national security. Follow him on Twitter @g_bagarella. When Amazon entered markets like bookselling or groceries,…
“The Key,” a surreal story with a real-world political message, has won the Storyscapes award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival That’s the festival’s juried award for immersive art. It comes with a $10,000 cash prize, which the creators say will be donated to the Friends of Refugees organizations. I had a chance to experience…
Way back in 2013, Apple spent a whopping $578 million on sapphire glass. The sum, spread out over four installments, was an advance to GT Advanced Technologies. Already in use on the company’s home buttons and camera, the plan was to implement the extremely hard material on a larger scale, replacing Gorilla Glass in the…
Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, XRP the digital asset that throws the cypherpunk ideology straight out the window. Ripple has managed to make cryptocurrencies and corporate institutions unlikely bedfellows. It has often drawn criticism for ‘not being a real cryptocurrency’ and not being…
The malware has new tricks, like using the stunnel encrypted tunneling mechanism and abusing a legitimate shareware app.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
May 4, known around the world as Star Wars day, is nearly here. In celebration, Google announced a series of pretty significant discounts on the Google Play Store, mainly on Star Wars games for Android phones. The deals are now available and will run until May 4. While you may not necessarily need to take…
OnePlus has started accepting pre-orders for the OnePlus 7 Pro in India through Amazon.in, OnePlus Store, Croma, and Reliance Digital. Pre-bookings are already live and end on May 7 at 11:59 pm local time, with offline stores kicking them off from May 8. Those who pre-book the OnePlus 7 Pro are eligible for a one-time…
As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona earlier this year, but it’s not shipping to developers yet. Currently, the best release date we have is “later this year.” The Development Edition will launch…
Microsoft didn’t rush to bring blockchain technology to its Azure cloud computing platform, but over the course of the last year, it started to pick up the pace with the launch of its blockchain development kit and the Azure Blockchain Workbench. Today, ahead of its Build developer conference, it is going a step further by…
Data mining firm Palantir’s software was used by a US government agency during an operation in 2017 in which immigrants crossing the border were arrested for deportation, newly released documents (PDF) have shown, contradicting the $20 billion firm’s earlier public statements. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents, obtained by advocacy organization Mijente through Freedom of Information…
