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So the good news is the service is not tracking anyone. It essentially allows citizens to interact via Whatsapp or SMS with the Dept of Health to report, update, etc. South Africa has opted not […]
When Skyrim first dropped on the scene earlier this decade, it pushed the envelope. For a good part of the early 2010s, Skyrim was the pinnacle of gaming. The open-world, the story, and the character […]
Ghana is another country that has recently found itself in this admirable position of having excess generation capacity. According to Ghana’s Energy and Demand Outlook 2020, by the end of 2019, the installed electricity generation […]
Public-key cryptosystems form a critical aspect of our secrecy. The ability to establish private communications over a public medium is exercised billions of times per day. Should technology arise that unmasks this private discourse, the […]
This will enable jurisdictions worldwide to quickly build and deploy their own contact tracing apps using a wildly successful proven base. The donated app has been named COVID Green. It’s great to see countries contributing […]
TheirTube is a demonstration of this concept, and really shows how recommendation algorithms (what to watch next) tend to show you more of what you want to see, and can be matched to personality types […]
Some really interesting analysis that shows workdays lengthened (for good reasons given) and there were more frequent meetings, but of shorter duration. ‘While weekly meeting time increased by 10% overall — we could no longer […]
I was a Novell sysdmin back in the day so have not really done any serious sysadmin work on either Windows or Linux servers, but I did go on a Linus Essentials course and then […]
Getting to this point proved to be a particularly challenging process for the UAE, which only had experience launching Earth-observing satellites up until now. The engineers and scientists had just six years to get the […]
After 9+ years of continuous running my D-Link DNS-323 NAS is not powering up although the two hard drives in it are fine. OpenMediaVault is good software to run on a Pi with full GUI […]
