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To kick of the start of a new week AND a new month, we pulled together some stories that'll hopefully get you excited about the future -- including one about a clever new plan to end digital fingerprinting once and for all, as well as a piece about Elon Musk's plans to build space stations in the ocean. Check it out! |
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We have more tools to secure our identity online than ever before. You can ban cookies, block invasive trackers, switch to incognito mode, opt out of cross-app tracking with Apple's latest iOS update, or even go as far as to surf the web only through highly encrypted virtual private networks.
But there's a tracking method that can still slip past these defenses and it's growing in popularity: Fingerprinting. There's currently no great way to stop fingerprinting, but internet companies have started addressing the threat and looking for potential ways to deal with it. The Chromium-based browser Brave takes the most compelling shot at thwarting malicious fingerprinting that we've seen so far.
Brave's solution is simple: Whenever a website requests the kind of data that could potentially enable fingerprinting, the browser obliges — but it also mixes in just enough noise or random information that it doesn't end up crippling your web experience. This allows you to have a unique fingerprint for every session and every webpage |
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SpaceX is planning to launch and land its next-generation Starship rocket on an ocean-based spaceport -- and it could happen as early as next year.
The two spaceports the company is planning to build (named Deimos and Phobos, after the moons of Mars) are being built on oil rig apparatus purchased in 2020 for a total of $7 million from Valaris, the world's largest owner of offshore rigs.
Responding to a fan's tweet that included an image of how the spaceport might look, SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed that construction is already underway on Deimos, the first of the company's two floating spaceports. Check it out! |
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Nvidia is looking to make work and development in artificial intelligence more accessible, giving researchers an easy way to access its DGX supercomputer. The company announced that it will launch a subscription service for its DGX Superpod as an affordable way to gain entry into the world of supercomputers.
The DGX SuperPod is capable of 100 petaflops of A.I. performance, according to the company, and when configured 20 DGX A100 systems, it's designed for large-scale A.I. projects.
Despite the company's marketing take on the new subscription service, affordable is still relative, as Nvidia's new Superpod subscription still costs $90,000 per month when it launches this summer. |
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TIPS, TRICKS, & TECHNIQUES |
A single Wi-Fi router is no match for a larger home. You're bound to run into a dead zone sooner or later, and then all is lost — especially if you have kids. Luckily, there's a way to skip all the drama, and all it takes is a secondary router. A secondary router acts as an extender that takes your Wi-Fi signal and re-transmits it. That's a fresh data stream right out of thin air. Here's how to do it. |
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