A cat and mouse game between Netflix and its users over geo-blocked content has begun in Australia. Last week, Netflix announced it would be cracking down on customers who use software to watch content only available outside their own country, blocking proxies and virtual private networks (VPNs).
Source : Netflix fires first shot in battle with VPNs | The Verge
The internet has become embedded into our daily lives, no longer an esoteric phenomenon, but instead an unremarkable way of carrying out our interactions with one another. Online and offline are interwoven in everyday experience. Using the internet has become accepted as a way of being present in the world, rather than a means of accessing some discrete virtual domain. Ethnographers of these contemporary Internet-infused societies consequently find themselves facing serious methodological dilemmas: where should they go, what should they do there and how can they acquire robust knowledge about what people do in, through and with the internet?
Source : Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday: Christine Hine: Bloomsbury Academic
Je vois mon travail comme des vagues dans l’océan. Certaines personnes vont y chercher des coquillages. D’autres surfent dessus, d’autres plongent.
Source : L’étrange enquête des internautes sur deux vidéos inquiétantes
Dans le prolongement de la remise au président ce jour, du rapport Nora intitulé « L’informatisation de la société ou la télématique » (rapport écrit par Simon NORA et Alain MINC), ce reportage est consacré à la télématique (informatique et telecommunication) et ses différentes implications.
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Amazon said that the Dash Replenishment service is actually just an API system—a set of commands and functions that allow a computer to talk to a server—meaning that any device that can connect to the internet could be converted into an Amazon-buying device.
Source : Amazon is selling gadgets that can order their own refills – Quartz
Source : OSM Changesets and Notes | Mapbox
Le retour de la Social Brain Hypothesis de Dunbar…
While staying as a guest in the property, at night Mrs. Schumacher would sleep without any clothing, believing that with the front door closed and the window blinds drawn throughout the property, she was protected and free from prying eyes. This natural presumption proved to be incorrect.
Source : Woman sues Airbnb after finding hidden camera in her rental | Ars Technica
We now have more technology than ever before to ensure that if you’re the smallest, strangest musician in the world, doing something that only 20 people in the world will dig, we can now find those 20 people and connect the dots between the artist and listeners.
Source : The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good – Quartz
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