We’ve been promised an end to passwords before, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. And of course our public computers won’t make this easy on anybody. Still, the fact that the major tech giants are all agreeing on something could be cause for celebration, right?
Author: Don Yarman
Last week a friend got a free NFT for seeing a movie, but found that creating an account just to see it—a simple animation clip, like a GIF—was not worth the effort: “really dumb” was his assessment. While many sectors are treating the advent of NFT like a gold rush, a backlash seems to be growing, with a lot resistance originating in the gamer community.
Each January in Las Vegas, the Consumer Technology Association holds the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), where many world-changing gadgets and innovations have debuted: VCRs, satellite…
This week, there is news that US Government is launching a bug bounty program, and Meta (Facebook) is offering
A puff piece in Politico this week poked fun at Vice President Kamala Harris’s use of wired earbuds and her preference for texting over e-mail, calling her “Bluetooth-phobic” and paranoid. “Should someone who travels with the nuclear football be spending time untangling her headphone wires?,” they ask. Given that there are 495 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Bluetooth, I’d say it’s not paranoia if someone is really spying on you.
This “Web 2.0” has been with us for 20 years, and now the buzz is about what’s next: the metaverse, an experience built on what’s being called “Web3.” Besides encouraging us all to buy things that aren’t real, what’s all the hype really about?
Have you noticed YouTube bugging you to verify your age or risk account deletion in the last couple months? The company had to pay a…
I admire the artistry and commitment of tattoos, but they’re not for me. (Too fickle to settle on a design, and I’m kind of wimp…
Facebook had a very bad week last week. Former product manager Frances Haugen was revealed to be the whistleblower behind the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook…
OPLIN 4Cast #770: Letting Facebook define your metaphorical universe
Posted in 4cast, augmented reality, Facebook, and Virtual reality
Neal Stephenson invented the term “metaverse” for his 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, envisioning this 3-D virtual space that is a successor to the internet.…