Initiative Q is the brainchild of Saar Wilf, a serial entrepreneur who started his first payments start-up in 1997, and later founded Fraud Sciences, which redefined the payment security space and was acquired by PayPal in 2008. Wilf has compiled a team of experts from a variety of disciplines, including mathematics, economics, and other social sciences. The economic and monetary[…]
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Elements of style in writing at the time of computing
The basis of the elements of style in writing is fundamental for writing adequately both in print and on the new opportunities offered by the Internet. Blogs, portals, social networks are all based on a form of writing, multimedia writing enriched by various forms of other content, but still writing. The writing of the stories is based on the tropes:[…]
Read moreGive Firefox a chance for a faster and secure Internet
We have been using Firefox for a very long time, practically for everything except some tasks that explicitly require Chrome, and we’re excited about it. Mozilla has done and is doing a great job to keep up with the times, to improve the user experience and, above all, to innovate more than others. Firefox, it is our personal opinion, it[…]
Read moreGoogle Stadia. A wonderful gaming experience on Linux
Google Stadia, the cloud gaming service operated by Google, has finally arrived. We have tested it on a ridiculous cheap PC with a 30$/€ AMD Athlon 200GE CPU with integrated graphics. We played the first game (out of Destiny 2) on the list: Samurai Shodown. The game is playable and fun, the audio was perfect, the graphics at FullHD 1920×1080[…]
Read moreThe home of the first website
The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet, so he invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The WorldWideWeb (W3) is[…]
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