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Business

Why Slack & Microsoft Teams are terrible for Small Business

Slack and Microsoft Teams were built to bring company communication into the modern age, replacing email chains with text message-style notifications and direct message influenced conversations.

While these applications can promise to revolutionize how businesses operate, there are hidden dangers within both that can end up being a bad deal for most small to medium-sized companies.

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Technology

Pegasus – Winged horse or Trojan horse?

The most nefarious and dangerous malware is not what you think. Is it the latest and greatest ransomware from REvil or Darkside? Nope, it’s actually named Pegasus – from the Israeli technology company called NSO Group and it’s totally legit…kinda.

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Social

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: The Moderation Paradox

Join us as we talk about how social media affects the world around us.

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Technology

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: A Brave New World

On this episode of The Decentralists, we discuss Brave — a so-called “private” web browser that just blew-up its own reason to exist.

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Social

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: Kingmaker or Kingbreaker?

On this episode of The Decentralists, we question whether Facebook is just a benign influence in world events — or if something shadier is happening:

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Social

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: The Social Media Cold War – Part 1

This week on The Decentralists we ask: is there a social media cold war looming?

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Social

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: The Social Media Cold War – Part 2

What started as a local border skirmish between China and India may result in a global data ‘Cold War”involving all apps. We must ask: is there a social media cold war looming?

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Social

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: Advertising’s Future Without Facebook

This week on The Decentralists we talk about the future of advertising without Facebook

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Social

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: The TikTok Shotgun Wedding

On this episode of The Decentralists, we discuss how the U.S. wants to force a marriage between TikTok and the world’s largest software company, Microsoft.

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Blockchain

The Decentralists – Episode 2: An Interview with Dr. Chris Rowell

On this episode of The Decentralists, we are joined by Dr. Chris Rowell from the University of British Columbia.

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