This is some interesting stuff to think about: The students, part of a university honors class this semester called When Machines Decide: The Promise and Peril of Living in a Data-Driven Society, were tasked with creating a mobile app that teaches the public how a machine-learning algorithm could develop certain prejudices. “It was created to…
I love technology, but the day I walk out to my car and it demands bitcoin ransom before it will even start, might be the day that living off the grid starts to sound like a plan. Not a plan for me necessarily, but a plan. Seriously though, this is why the whole IoT security…
There may be something to this, in the old “When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail” sort of way. When everything looks like the nail in your area of expertise, it’s difficult to be truly innovative. By giving up the generalist view, lawyers have given up that ability to see across industries,…
On one hand, good for Google for recognizing the blight that internet advertising has become. On the other, can we trust a company who’s main source of income is web-based advertising to be the same one that decides which ads get shown and which ones don’t? I’m a little uneasy with that. “Google will introduce…
I’ve written plenty of times about the importance of backups, multiple backups even. If you know you need to backup, but aren’t sure where to begin, you could do worse that take a look at the options here and start backing up your important data. Seriously, now, before a hard drive crash, malware infection, or…
The British website internetmatters.org is a great place for parents, English and otherwise, to learn about keeping kids safe online, and educating themselves about what kinds of issues those children may be faced with. But don’t take it from me… We’re a not-for-profit organisation that has a simple purpose – to help keep children safe…
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