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9 links, first saved April 28, 2011, latest April 22, 2019.
- Report: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband - Motherboard
Anti-competitive behavior on the part of telecom companies and your easily purchased legislators. 😡
- Sprint to Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation - Motherboard
Last week I shared a link to the article about carriers selling location data . This activity got a lot of attention from people, and a mere week later Sprint is stopping this…
- T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Are Selling Customers' Real-Time Location Data, And It's Falling Into the Wrong Hands
It is obvious that the telecommunications companies know your location when you have a mobile phone, but there is some trust that that data isn't being used for other purposes. We…
- Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean - Motherboard
This is just cool. Microsoft put a bunch of servers in a tube and put it in the ocean! 💦 They highlight that the cooling provided by the water is a big benefit, and that makes…
- Stop Using 6-Digit iPhone Passcodes - Motherboard
I've always used a 6-digit PIN (once that option came out), but this article made me consider that with TouchID I now don't need to use my PIN nearly as much, and the added…
- The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding State Surveillance - Motherboard
Practical advice in a number of areas to protect yourself against surveillance. There is almost certainly one or two things nearly anyone could apply from this. 👍
- The Story Behind f.lux, the Night Owl's Color-Shifting Sleep App of Choice
Developing f.lux, it turned out, was more complex than either Lorna or Michael initially thought. And in the seven years since they started working on the app full time, Michael…
- Bitcoin Is Unsustainable | Motherboard
- Lessig: Copyright isn't just hurting creativity: it's killing science Motherboard