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30 September, 2016
28 September, 2016
Skype’s first employee, Taavet Hinrikus from the tiny country of Estonia, has shifted from disrupting communications to international money transfers with his billion-dollar start-up TransferWise, and says Australia is the perfect market. TransferWise offers international money transfers five to 10 times cheaper than the banks, and Hinrikus says he came up with the idea during his time at Skype, where he was being paid in euros despite working in Britain. He had to convert the euros every time he was paid.
When it comes to users’ privacy, messaging apps can vary widely — a fact that came to a head when Alphabet’s Google released its new Allo app. The messenger performs novel tricks like suggesting what to say next, but it does it by analysing the contents of users’ messages. Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, called the app “Google Surveillance” in a tweet, and some security experts recommended skipping the download, which was released last week.
27 September, 2016
His misguided political donation could have serious impacts on Oculus and Facebook. On Thursday, it was revealed that Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, had funded the efforts of Nimble America, a pro-Donald Trump nonprofit. Yesterday, Luckey confirmed that he had made a $10,000 donation to the group, while seeming to walk back any support for Trump himself, saying he would be voting for Libertarian Gary Johnson. Luckey also denied that he was responsible for some Reddit posts attributed to him by the Daily Beast. Meanwhile, several Oculus Rift game developers have said they will distance themselves from the platform because of Luckey’s political involvement
26 September, 2016
The technology that repelled the hackers was a style of software programming known as formal verification. Unlike most computer code, which is written informally and evaluated based mainly on whether it works, formally verified software reads like a mathematical proof: Each statement follows logically from the preceding one. An entire program can be tested with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.
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