So you want to be in Mastodon …?

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In case you’re not aware of, Twitter is experiencing some deep changes, depending on the eye of the beholder, these changes are great or catastrophic. Personally, I use twitter a lot! When configured properly (i.e., proper filtering) it’s a great source of information. Nevertheless, the changes are pushing many users to search for alternative/similar platforms…

How to know the WiFi Link Speed in MacOS?

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Without further ado: Press the Option key while clicking on the WiFi icon on the top bar. There, this will give you the link speed in WiFi. Rational In the old days the venerable NetWork Utility used to give the user that answer straightforward. However, starting from BigSur (Nov 2020), the practical utility has been…

Immediate challenges to make the Metaverse a reality

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It has been a long time since I write (been very busy), so much has changed, so much has stayed the same. Case in point XR, ie, the Metaverse. Why are we here in the 1st place? In short: PR. Let’s elaborate. For many of us in the tech world, the advent of AR/VR (XR)…

Seven Incumbent Firms Becoming Disruptors

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Dear readers, last month Artur Meyster (more about him at the end of the post) approached us wanting to collaborate with content. So, without further ado, his thoughts on disruption. New tech inventions are disrupting incumbent industries around the world. They have become indispensable for companies to stay relevant. However, for workers not everything is…

To centralize contact tracing, or not to centralized contact tracing, that is the question

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As you may have heard lately, contact tracing is one of the latest topics in vogue due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not going to explain contact tracing, it’s superbly explained here. That said, here’s the gist of it. Contact tracing, a quicky In the health world, the way to track and shut down an…

¿Como funciona el rastreo de contactos propuesto por Google y Apple?

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Tienen un cafe o su bebida preferida a mano? No? Pues busquenla, porque esto es largo 🙂 Estamos encuarentenaos gracias a la pandemia causada por COVID-19, dos oponentes del mundo informático (Google y Apple) acaban de unir fuerzas para ayudar a combatir la pandemia. Actualmente existen bosquejos de la tecnología y tratare de explicar como…

Why AR devices lag behind VR ones?

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First, the basics: AR enhances your surroundings, while VR detaches you from it. While they may seem similar, the end experience is completely different. Today’s VR is a reality (pun intended) due to the mass adoption of smart phones. Bluntly put, VR devices screens are phone screens put in front of your eyes. Advances in…

At last! A decent antivirus for Mac

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Macs suffer from less virus/malware attacks than Windows, not because they’re better, but because they’re fewer. This fact allowed Mac users to live without antivirus software, so far so good. Granted, macOS has had some sort of protection mechanism for years now, it’s called System Integrity Protection, it does some of the functions that antivirus…

Xamarin or Cordova, why?

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It has become a tradition on this blog to compare things, so let’s keep traditions and compare Xamarin and Cordova. I’m not going to compare them technically, because they’re different. However, they both are meant to build mobile apps, so they both deliver the same end result, just different internally. So why bother with one…

At last, Magic Leap came out of the closet … sort of …

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Engineering is about sacrifice: You gain something, and you lose some So … at last Magic Leap presented to the world their prototype. Background Magic Leap it’s a startup that has raised up until today: 2.3 billion USD. That’s two thousand and three hundred MILLIONS dollars, let that sink. Since its inception (around two years…