« Dans le contexte actuel, les droits et libertés fondamentales sur internet et l’accès à des informations fiables doit être ardemment défendu » : dans le cadre de la Présidence française du Conseil de l’Union européenne, Cédric O, secrétaire d’Etat chargé de la Transition numérique et des Communications électroniques, reçoit, ces 8
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L’enjeu est tellement important que Facebook a décidé d’embaucher 10 000 personnes pour y travailler, et envisage même de changer de nom pour mieux refléter l’importance qu’il y accorde. Le métavers (de l’anglais metaverse, contraction de meta universe) est un univers numérique, aux contours encore flous, promettant d’être l’Internet de demain.
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Internet ou le retour à la bougie, by Hervé Krief - Edition écosociété, collection " Résilience ", 19 March 2020 - 120 Pages It is said: " The tool is neutral, it is the use we make of it that is decisive. "Is that so? It is impossible to engage in a debate on new technologies and the meaning
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On 15 March 2019, another attack killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was broadcast live for nearly 20 minutes on Facebook. A terrorism imbued with the rhetoric of the far right online, which chooses social networks to create a buzz. To fight against
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In collaboration with the Institut Pasteur and numerous French and international institutions, Internet users around the world can now explore humanity's greatest inventions and discoveries in the new interactive online project from Google Arts and Culture. This new exhibition, entitled Once Upon a Try, Stories of Inventions
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Everyone agrees that he is the father of the web. Thirty years ago almost to the day, the internet raised enthusiastic hopes for a better life for all mankind. Today, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, looks at his baby with an
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Ubiquitous in our hyper-connected world, passwords guarantee the security of our personal information online. While they tend to be forgotten on a daily basis, they come back to the forefront with each new mass hack. In the dock, many new technologies, such as biometrics, are now being used to protect personal information.
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On the occasion of the 9th Day without Facebook, this Thursday 28 February, author Thomas Fauré denounces the technological schizophrenia that keeps Europe happy in front of Facebook, despite the thousand revelations that have been made about it. He claims that at the heart of the Old Continent there are the means to invest in
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At the beginning of a week of three meetings in Paris on peace, government technologies and Internet governance, Emmanuel Macron launched the Paris Appeal, a call to support an "open, secure, stable, accessible and peaceful cyberspace". The Paris Appeal is another example of the President's commitment to "open, secure, stable, accessible and peaceful cyberspace.
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About 23% of the French are "not comfortable with digital", declaring that they never surf the Internet or with difficulty, according to a CSA study on "illiteracy", digital illiteracy. This rate rises to 58% among people aged 70 and over. This is "a new form of fracture
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Michael Spence, the Nobel Prize winner in economics, has just signed an op-ed that warns us about what the Internet could become. As the entire global economy is inextricably linked to the Internet and digital technologies, the need for regulation is becoming more pressing every day. However, according to him
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The purchase of food products in short-distance mode is gradually becoming part of the French people's habits. "Mes Voisins Producteurs", a new marketplace on the Internet, adds a Premium dimension to this eco-responsible consumption model by further reducing the distance between the fork and the fork. Explanations with Jérémie Guilbert
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For several years now, voice search has penetrated the daily life of Internet users without disrupting it. But does 2018 mark the beginning of this revolution? Are we at the dawn of the next great transition in Internet research, just as the shift from desktop computers to voice search has been?
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On December 14, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), whose Republican Chairman Ajit Pai was appointed by Donald Trump, put an end to the principle of net neutrality, which was equivalent to treating in the same way the contents passing through the Internet's "pipes". From now on, providers
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On the occasion of his press briefing at the Elysée Palace on Wednesday 3 January, Emmanuel Macron announced a law to strengthen Internet control during the "election period" in order to combat "fake news": "I have decided that we will develop our legal system to protect life.
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Donald Trump, who certainly does not miss one, has just signed, in the United States, the end of the free Internet. By deciding to abolish web neutrality, he is putting an end to what we have known since the origin of the Internet: equal treatment for all in accessing the network. It is over. The
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Spectacular incidents, such as the outage resulting from the attack on Dyn on 21 October 2016, sometimes lead some to believe that it is possible to break the Internet, i.e. to interrupt its operation for a more or less long period of time. This breakdown could be the result of a deliberate attack, or it could be an accidental failure. Some articles
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A new method of using photons to transport information could provide a new wireless solution for communication. A team of researchers has developed a way to "twist photons" to improve the transfer of quantum information in open space. The use of particles of light, i.e.
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The G7 countries and internet giants agreed on Friday 20 October in Italy on a plan to block online "terrorist" content at a time when the Islamic State Organisation (IO) "no longer has any territory" after the fall of its last bastion.
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A new study by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) (1) reveals that 1.75 billion people in the world's eight richest countries (by GDP) remain unconnected - 34 % of them living in large urban areas. The report, released today, highlights that the divide between the richest and poorest countries in the world is widening.
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