Category: Tech

  • Opinion: What Sundar Pichai’s blog post really says about the launch of Bard

    Opinion: What Sundar Pichai’s blog post really says about the launch of Bard

    Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has announced the launch of its own chatbot Bard in a blog post. However, if you read the post between the lines, it actually says the following. Artificial intelligence is the hottest shit ever and is going to change the way we live and work on this planet in a pretty […]

  • Why was Mastodon blocked on twitter? And why I think this is wrong

    Why was Mastodon blocked on twitter? And why I think this is wrong

    The official account of Mastodon – @joinmastodon – has been blocked on twitter. The reason is likely to be that the Mastodon account tweeted a link to @ElonJet on Mastodon, which could be considered a violation of the new twitter policy against sharing live locations. On Wednesday, Twitter suspended the account @ElonJet and the background […]

  • Filed: a native internet protocol for social media – by Jack Dorsey

    Filed: a native internet protocol for social media – by Jack Dorsey

    There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead: Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control. […]

  • Will the bird protect our children?

    Will the bird protect our children?

    France is committed to protecting children on the Internet. In a twitter thread, Emmanuel Macron writes: We need to better protect our children on social networks and the Internet ! To protect our children on the Internet, we need to better verify user age, better detect and stop sexual predators, and better identify and address […]

  • About the problems of an edit button at twitter – and how twitter could earn real money

    About the problems of an edit button at twitter – and how twitter could earn real money

    Twitter users know how it is – you write the tweet of your life, within a few minutes it gets numerous likes and retweets, and suddenly you see the stupid spelling mistake in it. The desire for an editing function is therefore at the top of the list for twitter users. As well as I […]

  • Can the iPad Pro replace my laptop? The decision.

    So, two weeks are almost over and my time to return the iPad Pro is ending. The question, whether I am going to keep the iPad, has now to be answered. My answer is no, I am returning the iPad. I would very much like to keep it but it does not fulfill my needs […]

  • The iPad Pro 9.7: replacing my laptop?

    So I needed a device for university. I always thought about getting a Surface because I figured it would be the best device. It has a pen, a beautifully large display, it’s fast and responsive and it runs a full version of Windows. However, when the time to actually purchase a new computer has come, […]