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European Telcos Set to Win Fight With Big Tech, Could Set Global Agenda

European telecoms providers are set to win their decade-long fight to make Big Tech pay for network costs, thanks to sympathetic EU regulators and the bloc’s efforts to rein in U.S. tech giants, according to industry and regulatory sources, in the EU’s strongest move yet to set a global standard. Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom […]

Why VR Might Never Take Off

Virtual Reality (VR) has not seen as much success as its Augmented Reality (AR) counterpart. Many of the same problems that have plagued the industry for decades still exist today, preventing VR from taking off in any real sense.  Why Hasn’t VR Taken Off?   No matter how much hype we heard over the last decade, […]

Traveler's App Kit: Best Travel Apps for Digital Nomads

We have come a long way since the map and compass. Nowadays, travel has gotten both more convenient and more complicated. It helps to have informational products to help you book tickets, find lodging, find locations, contact local services, and more. Here are the best travel apps that every adventurer ought to make use of. […]

The Future is Decentralized: Here's What it Will Look Like

The last few years have seen the words blockchain, web 3, and decentralization thrown around like potatoes in a food fight. Everywhere on the internet, you go, people are touting the merits of decentralized finance, business, and information infrastructure. The future is decentralized in the eyes of many entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts, but what does […]

Analysis: Why Spotify's 'Car Thing' Was Destined for the Hardware Graveyard

Spotify Technology SA’s Car Thing player is now a thing of the past. The world’s leading audio streaming service on Wednesday announced it would discontinue the device just five months after it became available to all users in the United States. In doing so, Spotify became the latest software technology company to stumble in an […]

What Is GTE Technology, and Why Are Billionaires Investing in It?

What is GTE technology, and why are tech moguls betting big on it? GTE technology stands for Global Token Exchange. If you are remotely familiar with the potential of financial freedom that the advent of blockchain-enabled finance has to offer, then those words should give you goosebumps. Billionaires do not get to their level of […]

How to Invest in Web 3: A Detailed Overview

People are eagerly jumping on the Web 3 bandwagon and joining the online revolution that promises to transform the Internet as we know it. What is on everyone’s mind, given the ubiquitous enthusiasm and the potential profits that await early adopters, is how to invest in Web 3. Both investors and customers have great prospects […]

Facebook's Growth Woes in India: Too Much Nudity, Not Enough Women

On Feb. 2, when Meta Platforms reported Facebook’s first-ever quarterly drop in daily users, its finance chief identified higher mobile data costs as a unique obstacle slowing growth in India, its biggest market. On the same day, the U.S. tech group posted the findings of its own research into Facebook’s business in India on an […]

What Are the Ethical Issues in Biometrics?

What is biometric identification? It is the process through which unique biological characteristics are used in biometric identification to recognize and validate a person. These characteristics can be found in facial traits, eye structures, DNA, fingerprint patterns, and even handwriting. All this data that can be gathered on an individual inevitably brings up the ethical […]

The Knock-on Effect of Police Use of Facial Recognition

For the police, the use of facial technology in a technologically accelerated world is nothing but a means to optimize their internal operations to deliver a more safeguarded environment, conduct faster investigations, and catch criminals. But for the public, the police use of facial recognition is a cause of concern in terms of a potential […]