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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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Install A Better Custom ROM On The Amazon Kindle Fire

The Polyglot Developer

I am always on a plane without internet and not much to do. Up until now I’ve been using my iPad for watching the few movies I purchased from Google Play because Google Play lets you watch offline. The problem with this is my iPad doesn’t have a lot of storage space and can’t keep me entertained on a six or more hour flight.

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Communal Computing

O'Reilly

Smart screen makers like Amazon and Google continue to make small changes to try to fix the weirdness. The term “ ubiquitous computing ” (also known as “pervasive computing”) was coined to discuss the installation of sensors around a space; the ideas behind ubiquitous computing later led to the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. Trusted Types.

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What I Read in 2015

Tim Kadlec

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose 4 ⁄ 5 Rose’s book is a very clearly organized look at how widespread and cheap computing could impact objects from our everyday lives. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining. Well worth a read.