Category: iTech
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Is the President right to refuse the Binance pledge?
An analysis of the legislative and regulatory scenario concludes that given the current record and supervisory posture, the legal and governance case for refusal is robust. Malta’s Community Chest Fund (MCCF) has declined a long-pending Binance crypto pledge – originally around € 200k in 2018 BNB and now quoted around € 39m – citing reputational…
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In your face book
Only last week I was following the uproar in the UK about “abusive tweets” with a measure of disbelief. We’d been there before – how seriously should twitter and social media statuses be taken? Should the tools who abuse the tools be punished? The UK government was pretty serious about regulating twitter especially to protect…
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As the Mayans Logged Off
To this day, the Guatemalan Mayans remark that outsiders note down things not in order to remember them, but rather so as not to remember them. Today’s world of hyperconnectivity often leads us to wonder whether our reliance on technology for knowledge and time management is beginning to “soften” our brains and make them less…
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The Hard Drive
While shopping for goods to fill the Christmas stockings you might have gone to some IT product store and had a good look at the prices for hardware goods. If you were shocked at the sudden hike in price for external drives for your PC/Mac or in the price for certain laptops you might be…
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Morality in the iCloud Age
As Apple launches the iCloud (suspiciously similar to MobileMe) I thought it would be great to share this TED video. What morality should underpin our newly developed technologies? Thought provoking videos on a blog-dry day.