Sometimes, I just want to hide my head in the sand, even viewing just tech-related news. What I’ve been seeing lately, especially the news surrounding…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #659: Ransomware takes on new targets and new abilities
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I subscribe to a lot of different websites and blogs, as a way to look for trends in tech and in the news cycle. There…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #656: Privacy? Is there even such a thing any more?
Even though I work in IT, I’m not a fan of all technologies. When shopping, I will begrudgingly make use of self-checkouts (as long as…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #655: Shopping tech advances, and (some) anticipation increases
My teenage son has been playing Minecraft for years. At first, the appeal was in the building, but he soon moved on and found PvP…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #653: Keeping up with the gaming world is hard
When I saw my first backup camera in a friend’s car, years ago, I was stunned. I assumed she was wealthy (she wasn’t) and thought…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #651: Cars are speeding into the future, but can we keep up?
Can you imagine the world without YouTube? Certainly, if I asked my teenage son to try that exercise, he’d look at me like I belong…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #649: As YouTube grows, so do its problems
Huawei has been all over the news recently. Huawei is a very large Chinese telecommunications company, which provides network infrastructure to a great deal of…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #647: Huawei is in a lot of hot water. Can it recover?
Last Christmas, a relative sent my teen son a drone as a gift. It was easily the highlight of his presents under the tree, and…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #645: From organs to clean energy, drones deliver
The fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris last week stunned and devastated many people around the world. I know that I was among millions…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #643: Can technology resurrect Notre Dame from the ashes?
There’s little doubt that 5G internet speeds have been hyped a lot recently. The U.S. is just beginning to see this new type of network,…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #642: Is 5G nothing but hype and hurdles?