I was asked today, “when are you sharing the Annual Gift Guide? It’s October!” I guess it’s shopping season and a great gift for techno geeks who game or are gear heads is a high speed router. WiFi 7 is the latest wireless communications standard to hit the technology marketplace. WiFi 7 is an upgrade...
I get it. As a business owner, I hated how the global economy was inherently unfair. The US market is the freest and most dynamic market in the world. While we continuously let any and all players enter US marketplaces, it wasn’t easy doing business abroad. My own travails in penetrating markets in Europe and...
There are only two certainties. Death and Taxes. Microsoft reported the IRS slapped the company with a $29 billion bill for back taxes. The US Internal Revenue Service came up with the figure based upon the tax havens and shelters the company uses to hide profits from Uncle Sam. The bill encompasses tax years between...
There are some things you can’t make up. Zuckerberg touting new AIs that impersonate celebrities as a killer app is one thing you can’t make up. Meta’s AI-powered nude sticker generating feature for Messenger is another. MF (Meta/Facebook) rolled out an update for its Messenger program this week. The new feature was made available to...
It seems like we write an article about the dangers of rushing AI technology every other week. And this is the other week. Driverless cars operated by Cruise caused a massive traffic jam in Austin, Texas this week. The company operates a driverless taxi service that promises to pick people up from one location and...
The 20s may go down as a period of reckoning when artists and other creatives battle against large corporate suits to get everything they’re worth. George R.R. Martin, aka Tyrian Lannister, writer of the Game Thrones series of books has joined a class action suit against OpenAI. Martin and 17 authors from the Authors Guild....
Apple held its latest iPhone 15 event this week to little fanfare. Once upon a time, I’d call Tim Cook and Steve Jobs’ phones and leave lots of pestering voicemails asking for a press credential, but not so much lately. Unless you’re Huawei operating under sanctions there’s not a lot to be excited about with...
The world is in a precarious geopolitical mess, and we live in an age where hegemonies can be a dangerous thing. Seemingly out of nowhere, Huawei shook the technology world with two announcements. Huawei Innovates Around Chip Act China and the US haven’t engaged in open warfare, but battling each other across cyberspace has been...
Researchers at King’s College in London have discovered a major blindspot in driverless car AI. Dr. Jie Zhang of King’s Department of Informatics tested eight pedestrian detection systems used in driverless cars and determined these systems fail to identify children and people of color more than white pedestrians. The researchers ran 8,000 images through the...
I don’t know about you, but I spent many, many hours sitting in front of my parents’ TV playing Pong, Breakout, and Space Invaders. Before I got my TRS (TRASH)-80 computer I spent several minutes adjusting the vertical hold on my parents’ TV and finding a channel that had no signal. All to play in...