Posted in 4cast, and Healthcare
Last month, we covered plans by Apple and Google to build contact-tracing capabilities into phones. These new exposure-notification tools were released last Wednesday, allowing for…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #670: Balancing Privacy and Public Health
We’ve certainly covered drones before on the 4cast, but the COVID-19 pandemic has begun to highlight some of their capabilities; in some cases, those capabilities…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #699: The pandemic has put the spotlight on drones
Artificial intelligence applications are getting very good at learning from images, so Intel and Microsoft are exploring a way to convert binary computer code into grayscale pictures. Their A.I. can then scan the images for patterns, and in this way, identify malware with increased accuracy.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #698: Can you spot the malware in this picture?
There’s little doubt that things are unlikely return to exactly as they were before the pandemic. And it made me wonder about the general state of education technology (AKA “edtech”). As it turns out, the path ahead may an interesting mix with some potholes.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #697: How is the pandemic affecting edtech?
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Like most of you, I’m on one video-conferencing platform or another several times a day, and more often than not, it’s Zoom. I kind of…
You don’t need me to tell you that technology has been mission critical as we all self-isolate during the pandemic. I’ve little doubt that most…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #695: Pandemic forces new ways of using technology
The CDC director says very aggressive contact tracing will be required to scale back the current measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Even as…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #694: Tracking COVID-19 goes high-tech, but possibly low-privacy
Thanks to the pandemic, and the fact that it is now free, video conferencing app Zoom is pretty much everywhere. Even my mother-in-law, who is in her 80s, has learned how to use it from her phone for church meetups (and this is someone who can’t even search Google). If you have somehow managed not to use this platform yet, it’s probably just a matter of time.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #693: Zoom is free, but comes with significant headaches
In response to the pandemic’s shuttering of schools and libraries, the Open Library has become more open, turning the collection into the National Emergency Library. It’s a great boon for readers and learners, but is it legal?
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #692: National Emergency Library is a great idea, but is it legal?
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Over the course of two weeks, Ohio library internet traffic dropped from daily peaks over 8 Gigabits per second down to brief spikes that barely…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #691: Unprecedented spike in residential internet demand
