Cookies may be one of the most maligned parts of the internet, but they weren’t always so notorious. Back in 1994, a young man named Lou Montullideveloped the cookieas a way for website operators to help users save work by remembering them across multiple visits. The humble idea quickly caught on and morphed into a tool for advertisers to closely track user behavior across the internet and target their ads appropriately....

Join Lauren Razavi onstage atTNW 2021as she moderates a panel on ‘Hustle Culture and the Burnout Generation.’ As borders closed and remote work boomed, the rules of the game changed overnight. For digital nomads, this brought unexpected challenges – and new opportunities. Closed borders, national lockdowns, travel restrictions, fewer and more expensive flights. It sure seems like a bad time to be a digital nomad. Yet in the post-pandemic landscape that’s emerging, more people work remotely than ever before and mainstream interest in nomadic lifestyles is soaring....

Is the EU ‘cheating’ on its net-zero emissions plan? Here’s what science says A subtle form of double accounting But there is a much more fundamental problem with the Commission’s approach. It is a subtle form of double accounting that sets a precedent for more significant accounting tricks further down the line – or by other countries with larger land carbon sinks. The problem is that when scientists calculated how much CO₂ we can emit and still keep within the safe limits of the Paris Agreement, nature’s free carbon sucking service was already included....

Many of the major blogs have recently adopted Facebooks Comments Box. Embedable comments that force you to use your real identify for leaving comments on blog posts. At first this seems like a step forward in Internet identity as you only have to read comments on YouTube to realize there are many people (in Internet speak, called trolls) who make it their work to leave nasty, malicious comments using a fake identity of hiding behind an avatar....

A few months ago Peter Sunde, one of the founders ofThe Pirate Bay, was asked, by a prosecutor no less, when he first met someone IRL (In Real Life). The answer was both funny and insightful. Sunde said: “We don’t like the expression ‘In Real Life‘.We say ‘Away From keyboard‘.We think that the internet isreal. Earlier today I spoke to a friend who proposed that he would print a story I wrote on this blog and show it to the other editors at a local newspaper....