Having been born around the turn to the 21st century, I have grown accustomed to the omnipresence of technology in my upbringing. I can recall some...
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Tech-cavemen: imagining the prehistoric social networking
Posting content on social media has become a habit for us millennials and Gen Z, but have you ever wondered what it would have been like...
Continue reading...Machine translation tools: is it still worth it to learn a foreign language?
Let’s be honest: who among us has never turned to an automatic translation tool to convert a sentence from one language to another? It’s no secret...
Continue reading...“Inside” is a time period defining masterpiece
No one really likes to talk anymore about the time period where Bo Burnham’s “Inside” came out. It came out on May 30th 2021 and was...
Continue reading...Resources for the transliteration of Standard Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Be me, have only a few hours before your deadline ends to be free to enjoy the holidays. Problem: your mind is one big foggy environment...
Continue reading...Input Method Editors: How Do You Type Non-Roman Alphabets?
As someone who is studying a language, I’ll be the first to preach to you the importance of vocabulary practice. I can’t stand not being able...
Continue reading...Can computers cry?
With the last lecture in mind, I felt inspired to go more in depth about the questions that were asked in the last lecture. “Are computers...
Continue reading...What happened to Google Glass?
Every couple of years, a “revolutionary” product just seems to appear out of nowhere. The company behind it is marketing it as “the next big thing”,...
Continue reading...What is cybersquatting?
The rise of the digital has brought us lots of weird terms, and cybersquatting is one of them. It is derived from the term “squatting” which...
Continue reading...Welcome to Apple Land: Technological Ecosystems
I was recently listening to the FLAGRANT podcast, hosted primarily by comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh. I’ve seen some clips before on my YouTube Shorts...
Continue reading...Video: Art of the Future?
Hi everyone! In this video I will tell you about my visit to the Nxt Museum Amsterdam. I went with a few girls from the minor...
Continue reading...Apple and Ports, A Shaky Relationship
Remember the announcement of the iPhone 7? Replacing the flagship iPhone 6 series, it boasted a better performance, a nicer screen, and more resistance to water,...
Continue reading...Podcast — TikTok the new Google?
Hi and welcome to this solo podcast by me Isabel your host! After reading the article written by Kalley Huang “For Gen Z, TikTok IS the...
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Voyage of Digitality & the Internet: Podcast 02
Introduction Welcome to the Voyage of Digitality & the Internet. In the second episode, Ljubiša Metikoš, PhD legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR)...
Continue reading...I Had a Hologram Teams-call
Is the future of digital calls and meetings upon us? Recently, I participated in an experiment for my friend’s (Deborah Sintruije) research at the TNO (The...
Continue reading...Can we make sense of Amazon Prime’s recent TV-Series called “Upload”?
A couple of weeks ago, I just finished watching the whole episodes of the first season of an American TV-Series called “Upload.” I love watching sci-fi...
Continue reading...My phone got stolen
Did it ever happen to you that your phone got stolen? Well, it happened to me recently, on the 14th of October, on a Friday to...
Continue reading...Obsidian as a personal knowledge base
Recently Obsidian, an app I have been using since 2020 had its 1.0 release. Using this app has changed the way I study, in a good...
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