Series: “Strategies for Dealing with Confinement” By: Gabriel E. Levy B. www.galevy.com In recent days, strong criticism has been levelled from various quarters against emergency initiatives based on tele-education and tele-working proposed by governments as part of measures to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Although shocking, most of these criticisms are based on emotions
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5G will be the technology that will revolutionize high-speed wireless connectivity globally in the next decade. Conservative figures estimate that 40% of humanity will be connected through its networks by 2025[1] and according to a study published by GSMA [2], it will produce an estimated $2 trillion for the world economy once implemented. While there
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In six decades of development, implementation and growth, the Internet has witnessed monumental technological transformations, so that the network as we know it today bears little resemblance to its origins. However, one technology has remained almost the same since its creation: the basic operating protocols of the TCP network -Transfer Control Protocol-, together with the
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By: Gabriel E. Levy B. As YouTube evolved, its owner, Alphabet Inc. (Google), focused on perfecting the platform’s algorithm, giving it the reach of a powerful social media. 70% of the content that users watch originates from the platform’s automatic recommendations, generating an unprecedented type of adherence and addiction in the consumption of online video,
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“Cord-cutting” is a term used to refer to the cancellation of service that users have contracted with cable television companies. This phenomenon is widely talked about, as it saves a monthly item in consumers’ budgets and mainly affects telecommunications companies in the United States, as it is a direct consequence of the appearance of cloud
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In the contemporary world, the success of the products of the cultural industries, particularly the content industry, has been determined by the mass demand for the products. In other words, the greater the audience or consumption of a content, the greater its success is considered.While the mass consumption of a product or service continues to
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Although historically the development of the different standards has been marked by a fundamentally technological agenda, in the case of 5G, its implementation seems to be marked by commercial and geopolitical agendas, becoming the new battlefield of a kind of 21st century cold war. Why is 5G the new battleground of global geopolitics? 5G
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Although every day millions of people use it and benefit from its practicality, few know of the existence of this service and the controversy it generates. Zero Click represents an important time saving for users and Internet traffic, but it is also a parasitic model that ends up harming information and content providers. What is
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It is enough for an employee to download an infected email, or for a security patch not to be installed in time on a company’s servers, so that hackers, through sophisticated encryption software, can hijack sensitive company data, to then ask for millionaire ransoms.Ransomware, or digital hijacking, is currently one of the most profitable criminal
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A recent publication by Bloomberg showed that the Federal Trade Commission of the United States FTC is preparing a possible antitrust suit against Facebook [1], for possible market abuse. The lawsuit would be added to the investigation on the same subject carried out by Letitia James, general attorney of the state of New York [2]
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