Every spring, the world’s tech giants hold their annual developer conferences and use their moment in the limelight to proselytize their version of the tech future. This spring, the most bombastic version of the tech future came from Facebook, whose CEO said, in so many words, that the end of
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Posted May 03, 2017in Tech Talk
You may not have realized this, but for the last month, and every month going forward, your web browsing history has been packaged and sold. In two disgustingly fast weeks in late March, both houses of the United States Congress and President Donald Trump sold you out. Both Iowa senators
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Posted April 05, 2017in Tech Talk
Integrate passcode and fingerprint combo for access and register for locating software Stop what you’re doing and activate the baked-in device tracking tools available to you on your devices, and download some extra security measures while you’re at it. Sometimes in our never-ending tech excitement and device worship, we forgo
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Posted March 01, 2017in Tech Talk
A common misconception of the First Amendment is that the constitutional right to freedom of speech applies in all situations. People who have this belief live a backward life and think they can be as crass as they wish, wherever they desire, and there will be no repercussions. In terms
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Posted February 01, 2017in Tech Talk
It is official: Streaming has won; cable has lost. Yes, cable still exists, but it is dying on the vine. The NFL — television’s most consistent and powerful ratings engine — has been struggling to reach two-thirds of its audience average of the last five years. ESPN — the most
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Posted January 04, 2017in Tech Talk
Like it or not, America is living through the most politicized times since former President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. Even with the general election months behind us, emotions are still raw over a terse campaign season, its various outcomes and future implications of victories up and down the ballot.
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Posted November 30, 2016in Tech Talk
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… well, except for the whole “finding meaningful gifts thing.” It is a sad truth that some people in our lives who should seemingly be the easiest to buy gifts for are anything but easy. All of the classic gifts of the 1990s
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Posted November 02, 2016in Tech Talk
Stealing is wrong. Right after we teach children to share, we have to teach them that sharing doesn’t mean taking what’s not yours. At that age, theft means taking someone else’s toys, bike or seat in the family van, but as you get older, it takes on all types of
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Posted October 05, 2016in Tech Talk
The auto industry appears to be one of the hardest markets to get people excited about regarding tech enhancements. Notoriously, the electric automobile looked to become a real breakthrough in the mid-1990s with celebrities like Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks and Jay Leno raving about their fossil-fuel-free autos, only to have
Read More →Every two minutes, camera-strapped humans take more photos than existed the previous 150 years. Approximately 1.8 billion of our images are uploaded daily to the Internet, which means more than 650 billion photos are uploaded every year. Considering that when Joseph Niepce invented the camera in the early 1800s it
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