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The September 2021 announcement of a major fundraising campaign — which will include a state-of-the-art building — to help launch the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences, or CDIS, brought together an array of campus luminaries.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank was there that day at the Discovery Building. So were John and Tashia Morgridge, alumni who contributed a staggering $125 million to the new enterprise, and Erik Iverson, CEO of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which granted $50 million.

It’s fitting that the one best able to appreciate the day in historical context — past being prologue — was the new school’s founding director, Tom Erickson.

As the first UW–Madison freshman ever…

Really Simple Syndication (RSS), the first information distribution protocol that saw massive adoption across the internet is all set to take on Web3 with a decentralized information processing protocol called RSS3.

In a technical whitepaper released on Monday, RSS3 laid out plans for taking its popular internet feed update to Web3. RSS3 would offer every entity an RSS3 file that will act as source data and be updated continuously. The source data file then can be used as an aggregation of all the cyber activities, which can then be used to build out social media, content networks, games and other data-driven applications. The source data would have control on which information to broadcast and which to keep private.

RSS is a feed file containing a summary of a website’s updates,…

It’s easy to see how much the pandemic has changed the manner in which people use apps, and this has resulted in widespread alterations to the mobile app ecosystem as a whole. While the pandemic was no longer something new or mysterious in 2021, suffice it to say that it still had a pretty strong impact on the app industry with all things having been considered and taken into account and the industry used several techniques to survive.

Sensor Tower released a report that sheds a fair bit of light on how the mobile app ecosystem got through 2021. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that while some apps benefited from the pandemic due to more widespread usage among consumers, other apps were not so lucky with travel apps in particular being…

Making a website has become a crucial aspect of running a business, starting a freelance career or becoming any kind of creative professional. This has understandably resulted in a bit of a boost with regards to things like web hosting which has now become a pretty massive industry with all things having been considered and taken into account. Just like everything else, web hosting trends have seen a lot of changes in 2021 with many of these changes caused by innovations and other factors.

While 2020 saw a massive dip in the number of hosted websites, the number in 2021 was still at around 1.2 billion. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that out of these host names only about 200 million belonged to actually active websites. This number…

If you’ve ever wanted to know who registered a particular domain, the domain’s WHOIS information can give you all the answers you need at your fingertips.

Typical WHOIS data can include a name, address, email, phone number, administrative and technical contacts, or other important personally-identifying information. WHOIS is not an acronym. It answers the question, “Who is responsible for this domain?”

Here are nine of the best websites to look up WHOIS information for any domain for free.

Who better to look up WHOIS information with than with ICANN itself? ICANN regulates and provides all WHOIS information.

The regulator’s registration data lookup tool allows you to access the current registration information for any domain name and Internet number…