I suppose, since this is a blog about technology, that I have to comment on “IT” or “Ginger” or “Segway”, whatever you choose to call Dean Kamen’s latest invention .
Frankly, I’m not overly impressed. Unlike some others , I don’t want one. I have no need for it, and I don’t typically spend $3000 on a toy. I can get all of the transportation advantages it has on my bicycle, and get a good healthy workout too. My bike only cost $150.
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Neville Hobson noticed this last week, and now after having spent a few days watching my Outlook 2007 install after installing SP2, I totally agree that it is running so much snappier than it ever has. Back when I first tested Outlook 2007, I decided that there were a couple of things I didn’t like….
I don’t know for sure, but I noticed a couple of items getting duplicated on my Google Calendar today, and the one common denominator was that I had made changes to each of those events in Outlook. So, to avoid having this difficulty, I should probably delete the event and create a new one instead…
Tinder Using Video Selfies to Verify User Identities Because of AI Selfies
Of course, the problem is that short videos are going to be easy enough to create using AI as well, so what will be the next step dating apps have to take to verify the identity of their users and make sure customers aren’t spending all their time on the app talking to fake AI-generated profiles? Or is this the end of that entire business model?
Don’t think dating apps are the only thing at risk with AI. Any online service based on contributions by authors, artists, musicians, etc., is at risk of being overrun by AI junk. In some cases, it’s probably already happening.
Over at Daily Cup of Tech, Tim Fehlman has spent today listing one cool free tech tool every hour. He calls the series 24 in 24, and though I’ve only taken a cursory glance at the free tools he’s shared thus far in the series, it appears there are definitely some interesting things to look…
“For several years, TrueCrypt was the gold standard in PC disk decryption suites. That changed nearly 18 months ago, when the individuals who developed the software abruptly quit. The developers declared that the existing software was ““not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues,” provided a final version of the software to decrypt data,…
Interesting, given my recent post about switching to Microsoft Security Essentials, one of our home PC’s was infected with a drive-by download of Antivirus Action. As much as I would have normally lectured my wife about using Internet Explorer, in this case she had to use it to access certain work-related tools, including getting full…