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How to Download All the Data LinkedIn Has About You

The post How to Download All the Data LinkedIn Has About You appeared first on BardTech . LinkedIn was one of Microsoft’s biggest buys. So, the two platforms get connected at the hip when you link LinkedIn to your Microsoft apps. The information LinkedIn has about you support several Microsoft services. For instance, you can see LinkedIn information on the Resume Assistant in Microsoft Word and profile cards in Outlook. But this raises a question:  How can I see the data LinkedIn has about me? How to Download the Data LinkedIn Has About You LinkedIn has a well thought out privacy policy. It gives you control and access to all your data through the Privacy tab in the account settings. Apart from the usual advertising opt-outs and sharing controls, LinkedIn also allows you to download all your data in a machine-readable format. Sign into LinkedIn. Click your Profile picture at the top of the LinkedIn page. Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown. Click t...

DFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWS

The post DFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWS appeared first on BardTech . Since blockchain technology appeared, there has been a persistent problem in its development: how to make it scale to billions of users. Bitcoin was famously never really designed for this, and today other platforms like Ethereum are also struggling. If you could crack this problem, the thinking goes, you’d end up with the hottest property in blockchain right now. That, a very healthy dose of ambition, and a bench of strong computer science talent are some of the big reasons why investors are gathering around  DFINITY , a startup based out of Zug, Switzerland and Palo Alto that is also a foundation , and has a very lofty goal to build what it calls the “Internet Computer”: a blockchain-based, decentralised and non-proprietary network to run the next generation of mega-applications. DFINITY aims to launch an initial version of its pub...