Penguin: The Navahos Go Digital — The Matrix — Decentralized Encrypted Survivable — France Embracing (the Same France that Fired Google)

France Enters the Matrix Matrix is an open platform for secure, decentralized, realtime communication. From a client’s viewpoint, Matrix is a thin set of HTTP APIs for publish-subscribe (pub/sub) data synchronization; from a server’s viewpoint, it’s a rich set of HTTP APIs for data replication and identity services. On top of these APIs, application servers …

Stephen E. Arnold: Is Google a Colonizing Force and Palantir Worried About a Demand by KT4 for Electronic Records?

Google: Just Like a Colonizing Force? Can a company cross over into the monetization methods of a country? I read “Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans Massive Expansion to Waterfront Vision” and formulated this company-country question. If accurate the Star’s report seems to outline a way for a commercial enterprise, based in the US, to monetize or …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google News is What Google Wants It To Be…. #GoogleGestapo

Google News: Not So Much News As Control and Passive Aggressive Offense I read “One Analyst’s Attempts to Demystify the Types of Traffic Google Sends Publishers.” The write up explains some of the clever ways Google manages its traffic and any related data linked to the traffic and content objects. To put it another way, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Translation – More Intelligent?

Google Translation: Getting More Intelligent? Translation has never been easier with AI and NLP tools. It is amazing for people who cannot speak foreign languages to communicate with the assistance of translation apps, like Google Translation. While there are many translation apps on the market, Google is by far the best free one. As with …