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What the top crypto execs predict for the industry in 2022: Regulation and a Big Tech ‘brain drain’

Cryptocurrencies have had yet another wild year. Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital asset, has seen a roughly 65% gain since January — with some ten to twenty percent swings in between. It brought in a crop of new, individual investors along the way as payment giants like

What Is an Embedded Operating System?

An embedded operating system is essentially the brain of an embedded computer system, which defines the functionality of a product. It is engineered and optimized to improve the efficiency of controlling the hardware resources, drive graphics processing, and decrease response time for the tasks performed by the device. In

Feature Article — Dissecting Social Media: What You Should Know

Have you checked your Facebook News Feed recently? Watched a YouTube video? Posted on Instagram? Sent a Tweet? If so, you are among the 3.5 billion people worldwide who actively use social media. Social media users generate a massive amount of information, from personal posts, photos and

What Is My Operating System?

To play games, run software, and even use certain accessories, you’ll need to know that your operating system is compatible. Compatibility is essential for preventing many bugs and errors, as well as ensuring a satisfactory computing experience. How can you determine which operating system you use? We’ll

What is Linux?

Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer’s hardware. How does Linux differ from other operating systems?

What Is the Most Popular Operating System?

An operating system is software that runs on a computer and is responsible for managing software applications and computer resources. The most installed operating system in the world is Android. For desktop PCs, Windows is the most popular operating system. This paper looks at the most popular

What Is Social Media?

Social media is a phrase we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and others. So you can infer that social media are web-based sites that allow people to interact with each other. But if we use

Apple iPhones could have been hacked for years – here’s what to do about it

For many years, the Apple iPhone has been considered one of the most secure smart phones available. But despite this reputation, security issues that might affect millions of users came to light last week, when researchers at Google revealed they had discovered websites that can infect iPhones, iPads, and

A Threat To Democracy? What Social Media Has Done To Us

From The Reading List The Atlantic: “The Dark Psychology of Social Networks” — “Suppose that the biblical story of Creation were true: God created the universe in six days, including all the laws of physics and all the physical constants that apply throughout the universe. Now imagine that

What The Open Mobility Foundation Says About Cities, Software And Standards

Analyzing data from the use of electric scooters, bicycles and other new mobility options is a priority for cities. GETTY Last month, 15 cities — Los Angeles included — created something unprecedented: their own standards body. A year after launching the Mobility Data Specification (MDS) — a suite of APIs