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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Complete Guide for Customized Education App Development

Tech News Gather

When developing an educational app, it is essential that students have the option to sign up using their social media accounts. This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Social Media. Student Sign-up. Push Notification. Course Management.

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12 different types of mobile testing with real-life examples

Testsigma

Today we are using mobile phones for social media, shopping, banking, movies, online meetings, emails, and whatnot. Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Test behaviour of the application when the network type is changed – 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi.

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Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Percona

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. 20-generic Processors | physical = 2, cores = 28, virtual = 56, hyperthreading = yes Models | 56xIntel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz< Memory Total | 376.6G

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Today, developers of technology (for example medical technology, software) and platform operators (social media enablers, credit card companies) are at the top.

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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). Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Converging Views. Gamepad API.

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