Letters are a thing of the past: but how much have emails and text messages changed what people write when communicating with far-off friends and family? Maybe not much at all… swissinfo.ch delves into the past and present to find out more. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)
Train vs plane: would you take a direct train between London and Geneva?
Eurostar is planning to run direct trains from Britain to Germany and Switzerland from the early 2030s. Would you favour the train over the plane? If not, why not?
Computer scientists struggle to get e-voting right
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“Systems currently used in Switzerland do not allow voters any way to check what has happened with their vote. They have no option but to trust the system,” says Rolf Haenni, a professor of computer science at the Research Institute for Security in the Information Society (RISIS) of Bern Technical College, based in the town…
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Nothing is for free, everybody knows that. We’ve let the beauty of the Internet fool us. We thought that everything would be freely accessible for everyone, preferably forever. It’s not. It takes skill and resources to create Internet technology, social media, websites, apps. Unless the service is understandably based on donations, there are only two…
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