In a season opener that felt like a wild ride on a Texas ranch, the SMU Mustangs managed to wrangle a 24-21 victory over the Nevada Wolf Pack. It was …
Ditch the Bland Backdrop. Your Video Call Background Needs a Personality Boost In today’s world of endless Zoom meetings, Teams calls, and virtual coffee breaks, the backdrop you choose for …
It’s dirty. It’s messy. It smells awful. No I’m not talking about your teenager’s bedroom. I’m talking about the landfills where all our solid trash ends up. They weren’t meant …
Sometimes I read about truly breakthrough innovations and I think “How did they even think to do that?” And other times I see things that appear to be obvious and …
I hate bullies, and I hate blowhards. You can imagine my disdain for bully blowhards. We had one who was the President of the United States for a while and …
It doesn’t matter if it’s her first win (which this was) or if a horse is highly decorated with black-type wins, any time your horse crosses the finish line first …
I just discovered Nat Eliason. No, the main image above isn’t him. I still really have no idea who he is beyond one article he wrote (I’ll read more of …
For more than 30 years, we’ve relied on search engines to help us find information online. You know the names: Yahoo, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, InfoSeek, Webcrawler, AltaVista, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, …
File this story under “Well, that didn’t take long.” Just five years after the official breakaway of the UK separating itself from the European Union, the majority of residents now …
In 1984, Boston Celtics fan Donnie Beardsley boldly proclaimed the Celtics would win their 15th NBA title in true Masshole fashion: “Who’s gonna win it? The Celtics. Because there’s no …
Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about where retired baby boomers are putting their money. No, I’m not a boomer. I’m a proud GenX’er, but that also means I’m …
The iconic recycling logo, which originally promised environmental benefits, has been misused and manipulated by corporations over the last 50 years, especially “Big Plastic”, to mislead the public. Despite widespread …
I recently read an article about Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of the Lego Group, which is now the world’s largest toy company with nearly $10 Billion in revenue last …
In April this year, Hitachi Energy committed $1.5 Billion to accelerate energy infrastructure products. Last week they pledged another $4.5 Billion toward transmission and distribution systems, plus other pieces of …
From Science Fiction to Everyday Reality, AI is Now Our Digital Butler Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just a concept from sci-fi movies anymore — it’s quickly becoming our everyday digital …
Lots of articles from so-called experts these days on how to define your co-workers: are they friends? Are they “work spouses”? Should they be considered family? Or are they just …
I was recently sitting at a restaurant with someone who was struggling to read the menu due to low light. It wasn’t candle-lit dining, mind you, but just normal evening …
Apple recently introduced an upgrade to their “personas” for the Vision Pro headset. A persona is essentially an avatar. People who play video games, use phone messaging apps, or AR/VR …
Smart contact lenses are gaining popularity in health-tech circles for both diagnostic and recreational purposes, such as monitoring glucose levels, receiving targeted drug delivery for ocular diseases, experiencing augmented reality, …
Everyone loves a good headline. A real hook, line, and sinker piece of juicy bait to pull you in. And nobody does headlines better than a tabloid newspaper. I saw …
I read this article about communication/conversation in Fast Company over the weekend and thought it was insightful. It’s fascinating that while the title is about the “the way you talk,” …
In the latest installment of “Do what I say, not what I do,” teachers have begun using AI at school. The same schools, perhaps, that ban students from using AI …
Ok, so maybe it was never going to be called “iCar”, but that’s what people dubbed it for nearly a decade. And now, finally, Apple has scrapped its plans to …
Doorbell cameras are getting hacked, and unfortunately the hardware and software make it fairly easy to do so. In February, Consumer Reports investigated some popular brands that were as simple …
My thoughts on UMass-to-the-MAC and the mixed response. I don’t believe this was Plan A, nor do I see it as our forever home if there’s such a thing in …
