The Download: protecting our digital lives, and X exits Brazil
Plus: Donald Trump's project is losing the assistance of reactionary influencers This is today's edition of The Downloadour weekday newsletter that offers an everyday dosage of what's going on the planet of innovation. The race to conserve our online lives from a digital dark age There is an image of my child that I like. She is sitting, smiling, in our old back garden, chubby hands getting at the cool turf. It was handled a digital electronic camera in 2013, when she was nearly one, today survives on Google Photos. What if, one day, Google stopped to work? What if I lost my cherished pictures permanently? For numerous archivists, alarm bells are calling. Throughout the world, they are scraping up defunct sites or at-risk information collections to conserve as much of our digital lives ...