av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 9, 2017 | Lästips
What began as a grassroots online campaign featuring a schoolboy has grown into a mass hashtag protest against Russia’s exclusion from the Winter Olympics – backed by what appear to be fake Twitter accounts and users connected to past pro-Kremlin causes.
Many ordinary Russians are undoubtedly upset about an International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to ban Russia’s team from the Pyeongchang games in South Korea early next year due to “unprecedented” doping violations.
Källa: #NoRussiaNoGames: Twitter ’bots’ boost Russian backlash against Olympic ban
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 8, 2017 | Lästips
I gave Amazon.com a key to go into my house and drop off packages when I’m not around. After two weeks, it turns out letting strangers in has been the least-troubling part of the experience.
Once Amazon owned my door, I was the one locked into an all-Amazon world.
Källa: Review | Amazon wants a key to your house. I did it. I regretted it.
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 8, 2017 | Lästips
As it does every year, Flickr today shared its 2017 Year in Review statistics highlighting various aspects of the photo-sharing community with lists including the Top 25 Photos of 2017, Top 10 Devices, and Top Brands. For the Top Brands category, Apple has once again beaten out dedicated camera makers with iPhones being used by 54 percent of photographers uploading photos to Flickr this year, followed by Canon in second place (23 percent) and Nikon in third place (18 percent).
Over the past few years, iPhones have been rising up Flickr’s Year in Review rankings. In 2015 iPhones were used for 42 percent of the photos shared to Flickr, and then in 2016Apple’s smartphones retained the top spot again, with 47 percent. Apple first surpassedNikon to become the second most popular camera brand on Flickr’s 2014 rankings.
Källa: iPhone Remains Flickr’s Most Popular Camera in 2017 Ahead of Canon and Nikon
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 8, 2017 | Lästips
LG Display hasn’t yet agreed a deal to produce future OLED displays for the iPhone, but one is definitely on the way. And, from the sound of things, it’s getting a whole lot closer.
In a regulatory filing made this week, LG noted that, “Regarding the OLED supply deal for Apple’s iPhone X, nothing has been set in detail. When anything is confirmed in detail, we will announce it, or (otherwise an announcement will be made) in a month.”
Källa: LG says that an OLED deal with Apple is in the works | Cult of Mac
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 7, 2017 | Lästips
The European Union is to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court in its hearing of the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal against a ruling whoch prevented prosecutors from gaining access to emails held by Microsoft in Ireland.
The case has attracted significant attention from technology and media companies due to concerns that an unfavorable final ruling could deter customers from using cloud services because of concerns that their data could be seized.
Källa: EU to intervene in Microsoft’s U.S. Supreme Court data protection case
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 7, 2017 | Lästips
Sometimes you can gauge how proud someone is about being at an event by the extent to whoch they want to talk about it. When that event is China’s annual global internet get-together in Wuzhen there are plenty who turn up, but fewer who want to advertise their attendance.
China has been smart and ruthless in its control of the internet within its borders. It blocks some foreign sites altogether and it censors – heavily – what Chinese are allowed to see.
Källa: Who will challenge China’s ’open’ internet?
