Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-01

Turkish coffee and a flight to Aswan where we meet the Sun Boat IV. Sarkozy and Blair are in town, snarling the traffic. #
Happy 2008 to my friends in the US. It’s been a great year so far here in GMT +2! #

To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public - Bloomberg 16 July 2019

There is precedent for this both in law and in Google’s business practices. When private ownership of essential resources and services—water, electricity, telecommunications, and so on—no longer serves the public interest, governments often step in to control them. One particular government intervention is especially relevant to the Big Tech dilemma: the 1956 consent decree in […]

Apple preaches privacy. Lawmakers want the talk to turn to action. - The Washington Post 16 July 2019

A number of privacy advocates and U.S. lawmakers — who did not attend the meeting — say Apple has not put enough muscle behind any federal effort to tighten privacy laws. And state lawmakers, who are closest to passing rules to limit data sharing, say Apple is an ally in name only — and in […]

The new 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model | iMore 15 July 2019

The French site conducted some tests on the new 2019 MacBook Air using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and it achieved speeds of 1.3 GB/s read and 1 GB/s write. Compare it to the 2018 MacBook Air, which achieved 2 GB/s read and 0.9 GB/s write.

Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software - WSJ 15 July 2019

The Apollo guidance computer—the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer—laid the foundations of much of the digital world we know today, from the fly-by-wire cockpits of commercial jetliners to the multitasking smartphones we carry in our pockets.

Cheap automatic license plate readers are creeping into neighborhoods. 14 July 2019

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