The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Enough Is Enough: The World Wide Web's Creator Is Taking The Power Back
In an interview with Fast Times, Berners-Lee demonstrated an early version of an app running on Solid. Author Katrina Brooker describes it as “a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.” The difference, she explains, is that every every scrap of data there is exclusively under his control.
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Amazon: Policeware Capability Microsoft May Not Be Able to Duplicate
New partners, new data, and new outputs — Amazon is moving forward, and I am not sure Microsoft as well as fellow travelers like Google and Oracle can match Amazon’s forced march in its effort to reword the intelligence and law enforcement intelligence ecosystem.
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Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.
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Amazon: Accommodating Big Chunks of Data
Our research into Amazon’s capabilities caused us to note the information in “Amazon Rolls Out High Memory Instances for In-Memory Databases.” Many companies want to munch on Big Data. I would point out that certain US government organization have a healthy appetite for the capability as well.
I noted this statement:
The new High Memory EC2 instances offer a choice of 6, 9 and 12 terabytes of memory, with 18TB and 24TB options to arrive next year.
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Academic Sees Facebook Chasing Amazon
I learned that:
The most powerful algorithm is called FBLearner Flow: Facebook could use its massive data on user preferences to anticipate the products that consumers want before consumers even realize it, and could work with retailers on predictive shipping.
Facebook also has DeepText and DeepFace. The trio of smart software adds up to a potential threat to Amazon.
Google: Making Cross Correlation Factually Fluffy General Tso Dish?
I read “Google China Prototypes Links Searches to Phone Number”. This is one of those write ups which offers some possibly accurate information attributed to anonymous sources or “sources familiar with the project.”
Nifty. Nothing like anonymity.
But for the moment, let’s assume that queries from mobile devices are explicitly linked to the a specific mobile device. What’s the big deal?
According to the write up:
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