‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace The stories of Google, Facebook, and Amazon are frequently used to tell the story of the modern web. However, eBay was the first to conquer. A software engineer created a website during the course of a weekend in September 1995. It wasn’t the first …
Bill C-11 Would Give CRTC Power Over User-generated Content, but They Promise Not To Use It Bill C-11, now working it’s way though Parliament, would modernize Canada’s Broadcasting Act by empowering the CRTC to oversee both traditional broadcasters and internet platforms like as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, and TikTok. It would require digital platforms …
Ontario Becomes First Canadian Province To Have a Right To Disconnect Law Silence your phone and turn off notifications: A new rule in Ontario offers employees the right to ignore work emails, messages, and calls after hours, which is a win for work-life balance. Employers with 25 or more employees in Ontario must have a …
Japan Passes Stablecoin Bill That Enshrines Investor Protection Last month’s collapse of the TerraUSD token thrust stablecoins into the worldwide spotlight and Japan became one of the first large economies to build a legal framework around them. On Friday, Japan’s parliament enacted a bill clarifying the legal status of stablecoins, essentially establishing them as digital …
New York Passes a Bill To Limit Bitcoin Mining For 2 Years During an early morning session of the state senate on Friday, New York lawmakers passed a bill banning some types of cryptocurrency mining that use carbon-based fuel, a move that aims to address growing concerns about the environmental impact of energy-intensive blockchain operations …
Sheryl Sandberg to Step Down as COO of Facebook-parent Meta Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, is stepping down. Sheryl Sandberg helped take the company from a startup to a digital advertising behemoth while also taking responsibility for some of the company’s biggest blunders. For the past 14 years, Sandberg has …
Smartphone Cameras Will Be Superior to SLRs by 2024, Says Sony CEO According to the CEO of Sony’s Semiconductor division, smartphone cameras will surpass the quality of single-lens reflex cameras in the next several years, notably by 2024. According to Nikkei, Sony recently held a business briefing session for its Imaging and Sensing solutions, during …
Samsung Led the Indian Tablet Market in Q1 2022 According to an IDC report, Samsung dethroned Apple as the largest tablet provider in the Indian tablet market in the first quarter ending March 2022. The South Korean firm had a 40% volume market share in India, up 10% from the previous quarter. Samsung dominated Apple’s …
Original Killer PC Spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 Ported to Linux. Not only has a long-lost native Unix version of the killer PC spreadsheet been uncovered, but it’s also been upgraded to make a native Linux version. Lotus 1-2-3, released nearly 40 years ago on January 26, 1983, was likely the one application that made the IBM …
PimEyes Launches Facial Recognition Affiliate Program, Blocks Russian Requests Due to War PimEyes, a facial recognition search engine that lets individuals see where their images have been exploited online, has launched an affiliate programme to promote product exposure by rewarding successful referrals. PimEyes claims to give a $10 commission for each successful referral to its …