Shortened URLs are long web addresses that are compacted for the sake of brevity. They are very popular with users of Twitter, where the total…
Month: September 2015
OPLIN 4cast #456: Password (in)sanity
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Passwords, passwords, when are we ever going to quit talking about passwords? Perhaps sooner than you might think. The huge hack of the Ashley Madison…
Last month, The Atlantic published an extensive article (linked below) about problems Wikipedia was having with supposedly volunteer editors posting things on Wikipedia for financial…
OPLIN 4cast #454: Arduino and the IoT
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It has been a little over two years since we speculated that Arduino boards might become a common component of library Maker Spaces. As we…
About a month ago, Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. announced a “breakthrough in memory technology.” 3D XPoint™ is said to be the largest advance…