Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Russia, US elections – all of these have lately been connected by one word – scandal. More specifically, data privacy scandal. The news about Facebook is not getting any better. Last Tuesday, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, was scheduled to testify before two congressional committees amid the growing objections over the company’s
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Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, is as far away as it gets from tattooed samurais that fight each other with katanas. The organization is more likely to resemble a very successful corporation that in 2015 had an estimated revenue of $80 Billion dollars. Unlike most organized crime groups, the yakuza is legal. (or at least, sort
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In the beginning of the 1990’s, the World Wide Web saw a significant boost in usage, after the introduction of one of the first ever web browsers which was developed for home use, the NCSA Mosaic. The browser was developed by Marc Andreassen, a computer scientist who believed that the potential of a web browser
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Can you imagine your life without technology? Seems hard, as today it is a crucial part of our life. For most of us technology, and the Internet in particular, is a tool of communication, sharing information, studying, work and even shopping. But is there something more that a regular person can get out of it? Should
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