Gmail Buddy, aka "The Internet of Things we do NOT need"
an Internet of Things that we definitely don’t need
there is a project, over at Seeed, that is a good example of a really (too) large category of projects that I really do not get. At least, I don’t get why they should have anything like “smart” or “smarter” in their name. I’m talking of
Yahoo, or why geeks need to give ALL their friends a PERSONAL email server now
By now, you probably already know that Yahoo scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence", and if you haven’t you can read all the details in the previous link, or in many other places. Here, I only want to
Light Saver, a nice project... that should be explained better
Vedant Desai is a “Smart Fifth Grader Football Player” who just invented a “Light Saver” device that…
Brexit is also a wake-up call for the Open Data movement
What is Open Data? Open Data is something with which we can…
On Brexit, young people "betrayed" by their elders, and voting
I have a strong feeling that certain headlines and assertions about the Brexit result are if not factually wrong, at least very misleading. I refer to statements that summarize charts and tables like the ones above in this way: “The U.K.’s Old Decided for the Young in the Brexit Vote” “Brexit is a middle finger from the baby boomers to young people like me” “Young screwed by older generations” “Young voters wanted Brexit the least - and will have to live with it the longest” Fact is, it was very clear, well before the vote, that opinions varied greatly across age ranges and that
Do you really need "IT controls" on the blueprints of your products? Probably not
Here are a couple of comments about the article “3D Printing: IP Vulnerability and Information Technology”, which are directly related to the EU research project DiDIY (Digital DIY) in which I am participating these days. In my opinion, THE most relevant paragraph of that article, the one that should receive more attention, is this: