In terms of individualized usage of an online service, this is a staggering milestone. Facebook is expected to announce soon that more than 500 million people have signed up for an account its site, despite recent privacy concerns. That is approximately one in every twelve people on the planet (approximately one in four Internet users [...]
Robert Cailliau, along with Tim Berners-Lee, co-developed the World Wide Web decades ago. Without his work, the Internet as we know it today probably wouldn’t exist. So needless to say, when he speaks, people tend to listen. The folks at TechCrunch recently snagged an interesting interview with him in which he opines about several topics [...]
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Tags: Facebook, Internet, privacy, Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee 
1 Comment »I’m sure there are some potential benefits to placing IR or 3D human sensing cameras in TVs, DVRs, and game consoles, such as the ability to change the channel without a remote control or play games via body movements, but any gains in convenience are quickly eliminated when one considers some of the other possible [...]
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