Internet

When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I had already taped a yellow sticky to my phone: “No internet.” It was there to remind me not to slide into in my normal routine, since seemingly everything I do marinates in the internet. First task on deck: exercise on my elliptical. I climbed on board, positioned […]

(iStock) Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor at the Institute for Family Studies. In February, the Atlanta Public Schools announced that every one of its 6,000 middle school students would receive a new laptop with wireless Internet access, which superintendent Meria Carstarphen called “the tools […]

If you want to vote in the European elections next month, your ballot paper will have a helpful logo next to the candidate’s name to show which party they’re running for – that is, unless you want to vote for Change UK – The Independent Group. Despite their logo being the most boring thing in […]

We are currently in the midst of that magical stretch of days between Coachella weekends — the one where all the Coachella acts have a little bit of time to kill in Southern California and where a whole bunch of them end up performing on LA-based talk shows. Last night, the 1975 took part in […]

Lasers. Crystals. Faster internet. Credit: University of Otago A team of University of Otago/Dodd-Walls Centre scientists have created a novel device that could enable the next generation of faster, more energy efficient internet. Their breakthrough results have been published in the world’s premiere scientific journal Nature this morning. The internet is one of the single […]

Russia’s internet sector has contributed 3.9 trillion rubles ($60.8 billion) to the overall economy last year, an 11 percent increase from 2017, according to the Russian Association of Electronic Communications. The study correlates with Kremlin estimates that Russian internet companies account for about 4 percent of gross domestic product. E-commerce accounts for half of Russia’s […]

8 ways China controls the internet  Inkstone Governments around the world are scrambling to figure out how to deal with harmful *content* online, whatever they think it is. … Source link

The European parliament voted on Wednesday to fine firms like Facebook, Google and Twitter up to 4 percent of their turnover if they persistently fail to remove extremist content within one hour of being asked to do so by authorities. The measures have been brought into sharper focus since the live streaming on one of […]

Summary Geoff’s memo about cloning super investors – mimicking successful portfolio strategies. Discussing achieving alpha in the market. Process more important than track record. Getting started as an investor and gaining confidence: investing in index funds and conviction stocks. Source link

To save time as well as to enhance communication with their doctors, patients are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, using online symptom checkers to get a better idea of what may be affecting their health. While online symptom checkers can be effective for getting a keener understanding of a wide variety of personal […]