All stories by Alejandro
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Environmental crime is a huge invisible problem — IoT will expose it
It’s a problem so big, that the police force of one of the world’s smallest countries is planning on reaching out to ...
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Apple's emojified execs sure look awful as humans
Today's World Emoji Day. To celebrate this stupid holiday I turned Apple's executive staff – who had some poor corporate artist turn them into emoji – back into humans. Why? Maybe to protest the both the creation of idiotic holidays and the subsequent corporate takeover ...
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The EU sucks for women tech founders
Research done by TNW’s Index team shows the EU ranks worse than Silicon Valley when it comes to tech startups founded by women – a paltry 15 percent of companies founded since 2017 in the EU were (co-)founded by women. By analyzing data collected from news sites and other ...
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How the Dutch police are using AI to unravel cold cases
The AI will rank cases by solvability, giving the forensic detectives a clearer view on where to focus their limited resources. ...
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We forced 9 privacy experts to say "I told you so" about Facebook - hopefully we'll listen next time
We should have known that Facebook was abusing our data. Why? Because lots of privacy activists told us so. Since most of ...
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Sorry Sony, I'm stealing those sweet noise-cancelling headphones you lent me
Dear Sony, I'm writing to you from a beautiful bubble of silence that exists only for me. A few weeks ago, you sent ...
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This site guesses exactly who you are based on just 15 questions
Inti de Ceukelaire, the ethical hacker from 'Oilsjt' in Belgium, is back again. De Ceukelaire has built a tool that can pretty reliably tell who you are after answering 15 questions on his new site 'Oilsjt Analytica,' a cheeky reference to Cambridge Analytica's recent Facebook scandal. I ...
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TNW is launching Hard Fork: A blog all about blockchain and cryptocurrency
Today, we're launching Hard Fork: a brand new TNW-powered blog all about cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and the people behind ...
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Hey #deletefacebook, here's how to stop being tracked as an ex-user
After a stormy couple of months, lots of people seem to be fed up with Facebook. The self-explanatory hashtag #deletefacebook is all over Twitter, another company that makes its money primarily by selling your data. Not here to judge though, just to inform. There could be one thing ...
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The first Vatican hackathon made a lot of sense, actually
I'm generally not a fan of institutionalized religion. But that doesn’t mean it can’t put its vast resources – however gained – to good use. VHacks, the very first hackathon organized by the Holy See in history was a great example of that. The hackathon invited 120 students ...
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Electric clocks in Europe have been running slow for over a month
Have you noticed your clocks are lagging? It's not an anomaly in the spacetime continuum, fortunately. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSOE), the body that sets up the internal energy market and ensures its optimal functioning, put out ...
