av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 6, 2018 | Ted
Smartphone? Check. Spare battery? Check. Power cables? Check. After deciding whoch gadgets to pack for your summer vacation, you can move on to the harder — and more fun — part: planning what you are going to do.
Flipping through printed travel guides and paper maps is passé. Tech tools are far more efficient at keeping your plans organized and easily accessible. As a frequent traveler, I always turn to a few time savers: building your own Google maps, using an itinerary management app and keeping important travel notes in a digital spreadsheet.
Källa: Ready for Vacation? Here’s the Best Tech for Trip Planning
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 6, 2018 | Ted
Diane Benscoter spent five years as a ”Moonie.” She shares an insider’s perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today’s most troubling conflicts and extremist movements.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 5, 2018 | Ted
If you’re raised on dogma and hate, can you choose a different path? Zak Ebrahim was just seven years old when his father helped plan the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His story is shocking, powerful and, ultimately, inspiring.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 5, 2018 | Ted
Last year, it was reported that one of the most popular torrenting websites The Pirate Bay (TPB) was using Coinhive’s cryptocurrency mining code to generate Monero coins by using computing power (CPU) of its visitors without their consent – After criticism from visitors the website removed the malicious script only to put it back months later.
Now, for the third time, The Pirate Bay has started using cryptocurrency mining code without informing its visitors or without providing them the option to opt-in or opt-out. According to several posts on the official web forum of The Pirate Bay users have shown disappointment over the ongoing mining scheme.
Källa: The Pirate Bay is silently mining cryptocurrency without user consent
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 5, 2018 | Ted
Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 2, 2018 | Ted
It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company pops up in your inbox.
Comedian James Veitch turned this frustration into whimsy when a local supermarket refused to take no for an answer. Hijinks ensued.
