When the metaverse comes, there are few good options on who will control it
If you think the ad and surveillance economy is out of control, wait until they're able to analyse and A/B test what you see.
Chris Duckett dispenses with "trends", "magic quadrants" and other salesbot speak to investigate what is really the foundation of IT: source code.
If you think the ad and surveillance economy is out of control, wait until they're able to analyse and A/B test what you see.
It is the year 2021. After approaching two years of endless video conferencing, two of the biggest laptop makers will still make you put tape on a high-end laptop.
If your hopes are for semiconductor prices to return to what they used it be, there's nothing but bad news on the horizon.
Perhaps Apple's CSAM system will work exactly as intended, but it will be the systems that follow in its wake that will be most egregious.
Australia is funding the potential purchase of a Pacific telco for only one reason, to ensure China Mobile doesn't get to it first.
When things go wrong on an Arm device running Windows, they can quickly go very, very wrong...
Cupertino is back to continue its claims that allowing apps to be sideloaded on iOS would make everything worse for every one of its users.
CSIRO believes a secure kernel has less national benefit than going all in on artificial intelligence.
As mobile and desktop OSes borrow from each other, having a touch screen on a laptop and using apps built for touch makes more sense than other offerings.
Imagine the ability to plug monitors and accessories into both sides of a device. If you can, you're ahead of the current batch of laptop designers.
Academics say the western view of individual privacy being supreme has forced the use of lockdowns as a blunt instrument when there might be another way involving the smart use of technology.
Facebook and Google have many sins, but penance should not mean paying for the sins of Australia's media proprietors.
Surveillance apps, sanitiser, and space. This is the office environment of 2021.
Upping your smartphone game to have proper work/personal differentiation is possible, but it's far from perfect, especially with Signal.
Can a balance be struck between the privacy of citizens and allowing health officials to access any piece of information for helping to track down a cluster of coronavirus cases?
Can you trust Google to keep your WiFi running until 2030?
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