Internet

Advertising at Work

Thanks to my gmail account being loaded on my work computer, sometimes I get some very strange advertising on my home computer. I’ve seen ads for:

  • Senior citizens
  • HIV
  • Drug Addiction
  • Texting while driving

I think it’s funny how the Internet thinks what I am researching at work, should copy over to my home work.

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Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy

Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy

In 2014, Amazon announced that it would power its rapidly expanding fleet of data centers with 100 percent renewable energy. Apple, Facebook, and Google made similar pledges two years before that, and pressure from consumers and environmental groups drove Amazon to follow suit. For the next two years, the tech giant made admirable strides toward achieving its goal, bankrolling large solar plants and wind farms. Then, it stopped.

Why is ‘Wi-Fi’ called ‘Wi-Fi’?

Why is ‘Wi-Fi’ called ‘Wi-Fi’?

"You probably think that the term WiFi means โ€œWireless Fidelityโ€. Well, technically this is incorrect. WiFi was simply designed as a logo and a trademark by Wi-Fi Alliance back in 1999 without any additional meaning. Brand names are created to conjure an association in the consumerโ€™s mind and the product is the definition. Wi-Fi and its letter pattern simply sounded catchy similar to hi-fi which means โ€œHigh Fidelityโ€. The link between Wi-Fi and hi-fi does not necessarily must results in โ€œfiโ€ meaning โ€œfidelityโ€."