Urban Muse

Adobe Will Terminate its Flash Technology by 2020

Who would have thought that Adobe's treasured Flash technology, which was responsible for millions of addictive games (not to mention YouTube's beginnings) will be sentenced to digital death within the following few years? And yet, this is exactly what will happen!

It was a good two decades run for the world's most popular browser plug-in, but the truth is that most security risks and browser crashes were caused by Flash. Sites like Kongregate may be in serious trouble, being forced to dump all those nice Flash games, unless they find a method to run them in a HTML5-based emulator...

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In-flight Wi-Fi Explained

In-flight Wi-Fi seems to be the latest fad these days. Who would have thought about that a decade ago? But the reality is that we've grown attached to our Internet-connected devices. These days we can't even imagine commuting to work without opening our Facebook accounts, or watching the latest popular video clips on YouTube.

Anyway, enough with the rants. About 60% of passengers consider in-flight Wi-Fi to be a necessity these days. The percentage is even bigger when it comes to parents traveling with children (close to 70%) or people that use planes for long-haul flights (over 80%). And believe it or not, many people would even change their preferred airline company with one that offers a better Wi-Fi service! Here's a graph produced by Data Alliance which shows the top 5 countries where this change would take place...

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Three Square Market Offers Microchip Implants to its Employees

Who would have thought that a tech company will offer its employees the option of having a microchip implanted in their hand? Yes, we aren't talking about a Sci-Fi movie, but about a Wisconsin-based company, and it looks like its employees are eager to take the opportunity!

If you work for Three Square Market, aka 32Market, you can choose (or not) to have a microchip injected between your thumb and index fingers. So far, over 60% of the company's employees have chosen the microchip, which has a size that's similar with a grain of rice...

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