Linked – Kansas City Building a New Billion-Dollar Terminal
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Linked – Kansas City Building a New Billion-Dollar Terminal

I like Kansas City, I’ve had a few good trips there, and met some great people. The airport though, well let me tell you a story. The last time I was there for work, I got to the airport after checking out of my hotel thinking I’d grab lunch before my flight home. This was…

The NFL’s Claims About Metadata in the Ezekiel Elliott Case
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The NFL’s Claims About Metadata in the Ezekiel Elliott Case

I’m not going to get into whether the 6 game suspension was fair or not, or the criminal investigation that was dropped, etc. At least not here. I do, however, want to thank Deadspin for being one of the only sports sites to not just repeat verbatim what the NFL had to say about the…

How Fake Information Starts and Spreads – the Amelia Earhart Photo
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How Fake Information Starts and Spreads – the Amelia Earhart Photo

If you haven’t seen it online already, or watched the documentary on the History channel, this was what we were being told about this photograph. Producers with a History Channel documentary recently found the picture in the National Archives and promoted it as new evidence indicating Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, survived a plane…

Touchscreen Frame

Touchscreen Frame

On a trip to the Old Louisiana State House this weekend, I saw what happens when someone exits from the interactive touchscreen educational program, in the photo above. It was an interesting reminder that at educational sites and corporate events, these kind of displays are really nothing more than a computer monitor in a decorative…

Linked – Who’s watching? Face recognition means goodbye to hiding in crowds
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Linked – Who’s watching? Face recognition means goodbye to hiding in crowds

The technology is getting better. Just this week I downloaded Facebook’s Moments app to take a look at it and sure enough, it pretty much nailed every match of a person in a photo on my phone with their Facebook profile. I don’t think we are going to stop businesses and government agencies from using…