Yesterday, I was rewatching a YouTube about somebody wanting to purchase Machinima, a now-defunct Intellectual Property since 2019. Machinima was the name of an American firm established in the early 2000s to serve as an online medium for people employing… Read More ›
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Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables — Hubble Ventures
Enlarge (credit: imaginima/Getty Images) The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable helps provide Internet connections to more than… Read More ›
Artemis I, NASA’s new mission to the moon, explained – Vox.com — RichMutants
NASA will launch the Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday morning. Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. A new NASA rocket is about to take off on a… Read More ›
Germany’s Trade Republic registers for crypto services in Italy — Ratanav-online
FILE PHOTO: A representation of cryptocurrency Binance is seen in this illustration taken August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration MILAN :German investment platform Trade Republic said on Tuesday it had registered last week as a cryptocurrency operator in Italy after it… Read More ›
Ernst Jünger’s Der Arbeiter (Pt. VI of VII)
Just as Technology is an art requiring creativity and ingenuity, so it too does it pave the way for political-economic change. The conditions of Total Mobilization compel the need to alter the conception of the nation-state as a Western polity…. Read More ›
Compendium: The Internet, the Y2K Bug, and the Work-Standard’s Mechanization Rate
Information technologies grew up alongside nuclear technologies in the wake of the Second World War. The most obvious example of their pervasive importance is of course the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is the digital medium that everyone uses… Read More ›
An Update and Preview of “What is the ‘Splinternet?'”
To begin, I must state that as of this writing, I will be updating my PC to Windows 10 sometime this week. I don’t expect the changeover to cause any serious delays since I have a backup laptop that I… Read More ›