Snapchat isn't the best of friends with the likes of Facebook. While the two isn't a direct competitor, Snapchat is still the underdog, and Facebook is something that Snapchat can never be (or never wanted to be).
He may not be a person of tech, but saw what is certain about the future of computing: AI is gaining fast and 'cannot be defeated'.
Lee Se-dol is a South Korean master of the ancient strategy game Go, or also called 'baduk' in Korea. He announced his retirement from professional competition due to the rise of what he says is an unbeatable entity.
It was back in 2016, when the 'AlphaGo versus Lee Se-dol', also known as the 'Google DeepMind Challenge Match' event, was held in Seoul.
The World Wide Web, or the web as people around the world knows it, is a complex place. It began as a project, before evolving to become a society and a community that create digital places where things happen in network cables and servers around the world.
"I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise," said Tim Berners-Lee, the director of the World Wide Web Foundation.
Berners-Lee said that:
If the web is a forest, then websites are the trees. Without proper guidance (search engine), one can be lost even when trying to visit just one website.
If it's a wilderness out there, search engines are making the web more tamed. The top in the business, is Google that owns roughly 90 percent of the market.
Every business starts with an idea. And most of the time, even the most brilliant idea can be looked down by even the closest people.
This was what Marc Randolph had experienced when he first came up with the idea for Netflix. At that time, the first reaction he received from people - including his wife - was, "That will never work."
The internet is a wonderful place, full of information of any kind. But let's not forget the entities and powerhouse that run most of the traffic.
While people can certainly pay for things on the internet, there are plenty others where netizens can have what they need for free.
Fortunately, the choices are more than plenty. But unfortunately, the business model is frowned upon by many privacy concerned individuals.
One of whom, is Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
People kill each other, and this can be traced back to thousands of years. When the fist was just not enough, humans started to realize that sharp objects were better than bare hands. So we created knives, swords and others capable of penetrating human flesh.
Fast forward, with the advent of gun powder, we realized that we can kill from a distance, without having to worry the target will have the chance to fight back. Firearms were then created, and in the modern world, there are just too many of them.
Data is expensive. Most if not all companies that deliver their services through the internet, have to at least collect some user data for reasons like analytics or understanding user behavior.
As people started acknowledging privacy issues that can happen when companies collect, process and store their information, data privacy has become one of the “fundamental freedoms of our time,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith.
YouTube is largest video hosting website in the world, and for that it has a huge impact in the society, the internet, as well has having known to directly shaped many world events.
By allowing practically anyone to publish videos inexpensively and distribute them freely, YouTube has been part of many academic education sources, a place for journalism, allowing innovation through distributed communities, helped build social awareness about social issues.
In the modern internet age where devices are synced and connected to the variety of services that power the community, people have become so pampered that they forget that they should be at least independent.
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, is a wildly outspoken person. He is rarely shy when criticizing the tech industry, as well as the company that he helped built.