by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Anker, Google Maps, Minipresso, Peak Design, Samsonite, Stuff Guides, tech travel tips, Toby Shapshak, Travelling, Xiaomi
If ever there was a delightful phrase, it’s “revenge travel”. That was last year’s mantra. This year’s is much more fun. Xiaomi 20,000mAh 50W charger R1,400 | Makro For the last few years, the most important thing I looked for on a new power bank was a USB-C port.... by admin | Feb 3, 2024 | Column, Columns, facebook, Internet News, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, News, Toby Shapshak
“Mr Zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking?” Senator Ted Cruz asked the Facebook CEO yesterday in an incendiary US Senate hearing about online sexual exploitation. Cruz was referring to an Instagram warning that users might see content containing or concerning... by admin | Feb 3, 2024 | Nasa, News, podcast, Podcasts & Videos, rocket science, Sayan Chakraborty, Space News, T2S2, Toby Shapshak, Workday
Before he sold his startup to Workday, MIT-trained Sayan Chakraborty worked at NASA’s famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer on interplanetary spacecraft; and later on the early commercialisation of GPS. He has seen many new things in a storied career,... by admin | Jan 9, 2024 | Business News, Column, Columns, Industry News, Media, Programmatic advertising, Toby Shapshak
Towards the end of last year, a major bank gave each lunch guest a bag of presents made in South Africa bearing the label “buy local”. It would be wonderful if that applied to more of the South African economy. The label suggests that consumers should buy from a local... by admin | Jan 6, 2024 | Columns, facebook, neo-Nazi, News, SubStack, Toby Shapshak, Twitter, X
Substack has missed the point. Preventing Nazis from spewing venomous hate speech is not censorship. This is not a conversation about free speech – and framing it as such is intellectually lazy and just plain wrong. Nazism is an evil, genocidal ideology that killed 6... by admin | Jan 6, 2024 | big tech, Business News, Column, Columns, facebook, Google, Meta, News, Toby Shapshak, Twitter
In a portent of things to come in 2024, Google lost the first of many major antitrust lawsuits on 11 December 2023. After a month in a San Francisco courtroom, Google was found guilty of all 11 counts of anticompetitive behaviour by a jury. Further arguments will be...