Government Science on Citizen Machines – Why Distributed Cloud is the Way
Every year, private industry overlooks hundreds of potentially groundbreaking scientific computing projects, either due to the upfront cost or uncertain prospects for profitability. One of the most affected areas is what’s known as “fundamental research”—exactly the kind of rigorous theory testing required to better understand natural phenomena, but which usually doesn’t translate to short-term returns. […]
Perfect Device Fingerprinting at Scale
The Idea The Web Scraping Clubs’ recent series on device fingerprinting has been making the rounds here at Salad, and this got the team and I very excited! Pierluigi Vinciguerra, co-founder of databoutique.com, outlined how device fingerprinting is used for cookie-free device tracking and bot detection, both being key inputs to block web scraping operations at scale. To […]