Month: December 2021
Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show conference withdraw
CES is one of the technology calendar’s busiest weeks, where firms show off new gadgets and talk through trends. It takes place in hotels and convention centres around the city, and has previously attracted more than 180,000 visitors. Amazon, Facebook and Twitter are among firms to announce that they will not send teams to the
virtual fashion show
Metaverse-a bit of virtual reality and a little bit augmented reality. And it’s been touted as the next big thing in tech. Zepeto is Asia’s biggest metaverse platform, with almost a quarter of a billion users – it launched just three years ago. Your avatar can resemble how you look in the real world. Or,
China’s telecommunications regulator and Alibaba Partnership
China’s telecommunications regulator has paused a partnership with Alibaba Cloud after one of the firm’s engineers discovered the Log4shell security flaw. According to state-backed Chinese media, the suspension is because the firm did not report Log4shell to The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in time. Log4Shell is the name given to a security
Replacing the US Dollar as a World Currency
The US dollar is still the most stable, most widespread reserve currency and as long as they are the biggest global economy they will have the most physical money in circulation, making the US dollar a sensible reserve currency. No other currency is stable or widespread to the same level and technological alternatives are currently
blockchain language irrelevant
As blockchain is a data structure any programming language can be utilised to make blockchain applications, so theoretically it could be programmed in a non-English based programming language. Programming languages in general have an English language bias with two thirds of programming languages utilising English vocabulary. There are numerous non-English based and international programming languages
Economic Crisis
Cycles of market growth and slumps are the normal nature of economic markets and a recession is a normal event over time, the 2008 global financial recession was a special case due to new lending practices that bypasses the ordinary mechanisms for regulating mortgages. Recessions of some kind usually occur every eight to ten years.
post-capitalism
As we begin to incorporate AI technology and automation becomes more integrated into society, problems like unemployment in a capitalist system will likely escalate. But today we also face bigger ethical questions that capitalism cannot address effectively, such as climate change. The open market does not take into account big moral or environmental issues such
Blockchain use in Curbing Tax Avoidance
Blockchain is set to revolutionise tax systems and accounting industries entirely, as adding amendments to the old tax laws that we still follow to address the growing digital consumer economy will not be well suited to the digital world. However these new horizons bring additional hurdles as digital goods are highly mobile and intangible, making
Deepfake Technology and Consensual Image Sharing
Currently there are only basic laws in very few countries governing image-based sexual abuse. But with ‘deepfake’ technology becoming increasingly sophisticated image-based sexual abuse, revenge porn, or sextortion may soon be a much wider issue, with the possibility that anyone who has their picture online could become a victim moving forward. In this digital world
Rethinking Online Content Moderation
Laws should be passed against businesses that leave open loopholes that can host, propagate or proliferate extremism and terrorist material online. Nearly a year after the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting New Zealand a mass shooting in Thailand was recently live streamed to Facebook and was removed retrospectively, inspiring a copycat shooter soon afterward, just like