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How the End of Net Neutrality Will Change the Internet
Mostly stringent upon the financial and monopolistic areas of the internet, net neutrality’s downfall deals primarily with the way internet service providers (ISPs) will be granting access, most likely with higher payment costs. What you need to know about net neutrality, as an individual idea, is that it stands for a cross-internet equality based system making ISPs treat any and all digital content without added privileges or specific surcharges. All of this will no sooner be changed thanks to a December vote made by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which moved to repeal all access provisions granted by ISPs.
Salvador LorenzPublished 6 years ago in 01Is YouTube Dying as a Platform?
In today's age, everyone knows what Youtube is, essentially. Old or new, no matter what generation, we've all watched something on this site. From cat videos to gaming content, there is literally something for everyone on here. I, myself, have spent countless hours watching the likes of PewDiePie and other big YouTubers. What will happen, though, when those YouTubers are driven off the platform by shoddy business practices and bad policies? Let's delve into what Youtube was, is, and will become.
What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality
Over the past several weeks, you've been hearing a lot about net neutrality and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. You know it's a major issue and that people are upset about it, but you're hesitant to talk about it in conversation because you're not entirely sure you have a firm grasp on the subject. Luckily, net neutrality is a relatively easy concept to understand, once you take out all of the tech jargon. So here's what you need to know about net neutrality, what it means for you and the rest of the population.
Dr. Ethan LeviPublished 6 years ago in 01Microsoft Launched a Massive Comeback by Doing One Simple Thing
At the beginning of the smartphone era, Microsoft had a huge hold on consumer products with the pocket PC. The pocket PC was able to do just about anything the desktop and laptop could do, in come Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, along with Research In Motion (RIM later just Blackberry).
Chris RicksPublished 6 years ago in 01Reminder to Be Mad: Your Video Games Are Still at Risk from Those Net Neutrality Rollbacks
When it comes to the use of the internet in my household, it's heavily used. We have Netflix, Amazon Video, Google Play, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo network, and even various music streaming services going at all times. It's a complicated matter on how our internet could be treated and how companies, as well as the FCC, are looking at treating it in the very near future.
Dustin MurphyPublished 6 years ago in 01- Top Story - November 2017
Saudi Arabia: Cradle of the Singularity
By now, you will probably have seen reports about the anti-corruption actions of the 32-year-old Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, which started on 4 November 2017. Mohammad bin Salman (aka MbS) has locked up his cousins and hundreds of other Saudi business leaders in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton. He has frozen their bank accounts.
LC DouglassPublished 6 years ago in 01 Why Apple Beats Google
Apple is the brand to beat these days. With over 17.4 million units sold in the first quarter of 2017 for the iPhone 7 plus, a new iPad with a near 11 inch screen and the Apple Watch 2 sales increasing (according to Tim Cook) despite the near death of most smartwatches brands and companies, it truly is a wonderful time to be an Apple fan. But why does the company do so well despite having the most restrictive user interface in all smartphone os, prices that are elitist by any normal smartphone standards and hardly any breakthrough changes in design and technology since the iPhone 5? This is what we will look into today and understand why Apple beats Google’s much friendlier, much more open ecosystem and products.
Abdullah MasoodPublished 6 years ago in 01Pennsylvania Broadband at the Speed of Light
In central Pennsylvania, much like in the rest of America, high-speed broadband access is still making slow, inconsistent inroads. As of the date of this writing, approximately 94% percent of Pennsylvanians had access to broadband services. While this percentage sounds high, it's a little misleading in that the figure defines broadband as any wired service providing a minimum speed of 25mbps.
Andrea DawsonPublished 7 years ago in 01What Is Blockchain Technology?
A lot of us always hear "blockchain" or "blockchain technology," or if you've never heard of it, like me, it's OK to be ignorant about it. But really, what is blockchain technology?
George NekilanPublished 7 years ago in 01Content Marketing Taken to New Levels with AI Robot Reporters
While robots have proven to perform various jobs, especially in the manufacturing industry, more efficiently than humans, those in the writing industry have had nothing to worry about. They knew their jobs weren't at risk. After all, computers cannot think, and hence, they cannot write. Moreover, their internet needs are well taken care of by pocket-friendly NBN plans.
Andrea DawsonPublished 7 years ago in 01Artificial Intelligence Is Now Capable of Recognizing Disguised People
Soon, artificial intelligence will be able to recognize people's faces even when they are partially covered, for example with a shawl. A team of researchers from India and the United Kingdom presented the recognition algorithm developed by deep training methods, which recognizes a person by 14 points on his or her face. Such an algorithm can recognize a disguised person with an accuracy of 79 percent.
Dasha ZhexembayevaPublished 7 years ago in 01Old Worlds of Nature vs. The Future of Trash and Technology
The definition of nature is constantly changing. The word itself conjures up many different feelings, thoughts, and images. It cannot be pinned down into one simple definition. Critical theorist, Raymond Williams, once wrote about nature as “the most complex word in the language(p. 216).” Nature is often defined through our re-creations of it, because most of us live in cities. Some of these re-creations come in the form of parks. These spaces are an invented form of nature, reflecting our ideal versions of it. The city park acts as a reminder in all the urban chaos that we can still preserve nature. This all sounds reasonable, except that the park is not a preservation, it is a creation, just like nature itself. The same thing goes for wilderness conservations, with their ties to a settler past and frontier mythology. We continue to assume there is some kind of nature out there, and that we are truly connected to it. There are representations of that idea everywhere:
Kendra Brea CooperPublished 7 years ago in 01