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Robot dogs opening doors. Or keeping them shut?

There’s some new dog-like robot who just “learned to open doors”. Most people are excited, or scared, by the dog itself. Maybe they should worry more about the door.

Children should build their online presence. Sure, but where?

There is a post about children and their online presence that is great, except for a serious omission.

The next three titles about cops with fingerprint scanners

Wired reports that “UK police are now using fingerprint scanners on the streets to identify people in less than a minute”. I have a feeling that the next three titles on the same topic may be something like these:

What's the difference between a blockchain-powered city and...?

“Blockchain-powered smart cities are more attainable than people imagine”, says this article. Cool. But so is …

The cost of five MORE years without perclouds

The percloud (“permanent/personal cloud”) is the simple, integrated alternative to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Flickr, Dropbox… that I first proposed in 2013. Yesterday, the P2P Foundation stimulated new discusssions about the percloud,

How to customize the Facebook News Feed (infographic)

It is possible to customize what Facebook shows you in its News Feed. Here is how to do it, and above all WHY, explained in the simplest possible manner.