Let’s Dive Head-First Into Quantum Physics
As the saying goes, “it’s not brain surgery, folks.” Instead it’s quantum physics. Easy stuff. You’ve got this. Let’s jump into it. According to this article in Futurism, Google has …
Authenticity Always Wins — The Secret to Choosing Your Videoconference Background
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 …
Time To Take Out The Trash
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 …
Waves Could Turn The Tide
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 …
Keeping up with the lingo: “search engine” versus “answer engine”
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, …
Hitachi Energy Commits $6 Billion To Fuel “Electrification”
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 …
The Future of AI in Everyday Life
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 …
Shedding some light on the situation
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 Vision Pro’s “spacial persona”
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 …
Energy For “Smart Contact Lenses” In The Blink Of An Eye
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, …
Some Teachers Use ChatGPT To Grade Papers
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 …
Watch your back! (And your front and sides.)
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 …
Goodbye messy charging cables; hello wireless charging devices
First our electronic devices were all plugged in with long power cables that got tangled or looked like a mess. Then we condensed to a wireless charging pad on a …
Microsoft’s latest conflict of interest?
This morning I read about Microsoft’s “fastest growing business line” being their cybersecurity solutions. It makes sense, after all, because Microsoft is so ingrained into the corporate world that OF …
Keep your iPhone (or ANY phone) secure and up-to-date
By now you probably know that every now and then your iPhone or Android phone asks you to update to the latest and greatest version of their operating system. You …
Weekend conversations with an AI Robot. So much for “use your time wisely.”
I’ve been told I have a strange and often far-fetched imagination. Maybe so. But it entertains me and that’s the important thing. I like to have conversations with ChatGPT like …
ChatGPT Rule Of Thumb: “Ask a dumb question, get a dumb answer.”
Everyone on-board the AI Train! Now departing for Make-Life-Easyville. ChatGPT is an incredible tool that can generate very specific answers to your wildest questions, but not all prompts are created …
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… medical implants? Ewwww.
This morning I read an article about a Romanian doctor who is charged with overseeing an operation (LOL; get it? Ugh) where a team of doctors were extracting valuable implants …
AI Robots got you down? Here’s a little pick-me-up!
Dear Abby: I’m in love with a robot. Helplessly, hopelessly deeply in love. Well, at least I think it’s love. Maybe it’s not. I’ll ask the robot. Sincerely, “Artificial Artie” …
Connectivity vs Privacy: Where will we draw the line?
In a world where more and more devices are “connected”, we’re having to give up more of our privacy in order to feed the Big Data Monster. This recent article …
It’s science.
Every single day in research centers around the world scientists make breakthroughs in understanding, treating, and curing cancers (and other afflictions). And while the Moon and Mars and the Metaverse …
Global Connectivity Is A Very Fragile Thing
(this article was inspired by a recent article in Wired; https://www.wired.co.uk/article/submarine-internet-cables-egypt) One minute we are a technologically advanced society, able to connect humans and machines from far-reaching parts of the …
Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2022
Every year for more than two decades, Time magazine editors have published a list of the 100 most impactful new products and ideas. This year, however, innovation really boomed. So …
Experience matters, whether “in-person” or virtual
It was the lure of sitting courtside for college basketball’s “March Madness” in 2018 that drew me into the metaverse. Just four years ago it was simply called Virtual Reality …
Wireless tech to track those with dementia and Alzheimer’s
Some caretakers of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s are starting to use tracking devices such as Apple AirTags to keep track of where they are. Seems like an excellent and harmless …