Four of the world’s biggest social media platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok — pledged on Thursday at the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris to bring in improvements to their services that would make women safer online. The promises come after over a year of consultations run by Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation, in which …
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In the year 2020, a smartphone is seen more as a necessity than a luxury — going without one means missing out on the many advantages to be had with internet connectivity in your pocket. But for billions of people around the world, owning a smartphone is still prohibitively expensive. According to a survey published Thursday by the Alliance for …
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In open letter published on the web’s 31st birthday, its creator Tim Berners-Lee warned that the lack of access and the threat of online harassment are fueling abuse and discrimination against women and girls. “The web is not working for women and girls,” he said Thursday in the letter. “I am seriously concerned that online harms facing women and girls …
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee laid out a global plan and call for action on Monday designed to protect the future of the web and prevent humankind from descending into a digital dystopia. The plan was drawn up together with governments, businesses and citizens over the course of the past year, after father of the web Berners-Lee first announced it at Web …
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Tim Berners-Lee, who three decades ago invented the World Wide Web, has a utopian vision despite all the online dystopia. He’s backing open-source technology called Solid — and a startup called Inrupt that hopes to commercialize it — that’s designed to pry your data out of the hands of those who’d strip-mine it for targeted ads and political manipulation schemes. …
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The web is turning 30 on Tuesday, but its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, is already looking ahead to the next 30 years. In his annual letter on the web’s birthday, Berners-Lee spent less time reflecting on how the web has developed over the past three decades and instead expressed optimism about what can be achieved in the next three. “Given how much …
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Three decades ago, a young computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee proposed an internet-based hyperlink system to allow the sharing of information among different computers, forever changing how people communicate and use the net. The idea behind what would become known as the World Wide Web was both simple and lofty, he told an audience Tuesday at an event marking the …
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The internet has many birthdays. There was 1969, when remote computers communicated directly for the first time. Then there was 1983, when the TCP/IP standard was adopted. Today we’re celebrating 1989, the year Tim Berners-Lee laid out the basic concepts of the World Wide Web in a proposal, which included ideas like HTML, URL, and HTTP. March marks the 30th …
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If you’re tired of companies hoarding all kinds of personal data about you, you could be able to try an alternative approach next year from Inrupt, the startup from web creator Tim Berners-Lee. Inrupt is backing an open-source project called Solid that’s designed to let us keep control over our own data instead of leaving it in the data centers …
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A Google Doodle on Monday celebrated the life of Michael Dertouzos, who foresaw how the internet would change the world. Dertouzos was born in Athens, Greece on Nov. 5, 1936, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined MIT’s faculty and became director of its Laboratory for Computer Science in 1974. He spearheaded …
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