Day: April 8, 2019

Google says the fiber-optic cable it’s building across the Atlantic Ocean will be the fastest of its kind. When the cable goes live next year, the company estimates it will transmit around 250 terabits per second, fast enough to zap all the contents of the […]

It’s tax season, which has me thinking about one of decentralized technology’s holy grails: self-sovereign identities. It’s a stirring vision, of a world in which control over our driver’s licenses, passports, birth certificates, social security numbers — the table stakes to participate in the modern […]

Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with “important information about your account,” updates from the “Chinese embassy,” and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable. That’s despite promises from the telecom industry and the US government that solutions would be […]

The Wikipedia article of the day for April 8, 2019 is Billy Martin. Billy Martin (1928–1989) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and the on-again, off-again manager of the New York Yankees. Known first as a scrappy infielder on the championship Yankee teams […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on April 8, 2019: The Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad of the Vandenberg Air Force Base on January 16, 2016, the day before the launch of the Jason-3 satellite. http://bit.ly/2WUGOW7

Wikipedia picture of the day on April 8, 2019: The Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad of the Vandenberg Air Force Base on January 16, 2016, the day before the launch of the Jason-3 satellite. http://bit.ly/2WUGOW7

Wikipedia picture of the day on April 8, 2019: The Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad of the Vandenberg Air Force Base on January 16, 2016, the day before the launch of the Jason-3 satellite. http://bit.ly/2WUGOW7

Wikipedia picture of the day on April 8, 2019: The Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad of the Vandenberg Air Force Base on January 16, 2016, the day before the launch of the Jason-3 satellite. http://bit.ly/2WUGOW7