Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine? (gizmodo.com)
One executive revealed the number, and it’s more than the GDP of Haiti.
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One executive revealed the number, and it’s more than the GDP of Haiti.
A fun sort of online museum with exhibits on the early internet. From the first mp3, to the dancing baby gif, to the first webcam feed of a coffee maker and more. This was really cool!
It’s been there for a while and the article is also a bit older, but I only recently saw this.
original page (paywalled): www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-…
The configuration of the device allows water to circulate in swirling eddies, in a manner similar to the much larger “thermohaline” circulation of the ocean. This circulation, combined with the sun’s heat, drives water to evaporate, leaving salt behind. The resulting water vapor can then be condensed and collected as pure,...
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“Microsoft was responsible for the error.”
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
The bug allows attackers to swipe data from a CPU’s registers. […] the exploit doesn’t require physical hardware access and can be triggered by loading JavaScript on a malicious website.
Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web....
The token has been controversial in Silicon Valley for its ambitious and unorthodox approach to trying to solve two vexing problems: Online identity authentication and income inequality....
Anyone here without a smartphone? How’s your life like?
Addition for the Archived link...
Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”...
The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, if one of the words is ‘landing’ and you guessed ‘land’ there is no confirmation you’re getting warm at all....
'Privacy. That’s Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....