If you’re a gamer, it’s likely that you’ve been hearing about Google forthcoming Stadia service for a while. Stadia proposes to be to gaming what…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #673: Is Google’s new Stadia gaming platform all that?
As a librarian, I tend to see most problems as “information problems,” including—or maybe especially—health care. I appreciate how “Dr. Google” (when it’s not stoking…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #672: Who do you trust with your medical data?
Educators and librarians have long had an ambivalent relationship with Wikipedia. While admiring the attempt to crowdsource all human knowledge, the authority of that knowledge…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #671: Wikipedia is still very much a battleground
OPLIN 4Cast #670: Kids spending more times staring at screens, but maybe that’s a good thing
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Common Sense Media is a nonprofit that researches and reviews, for parents and educators, the impact of media and technology on children. (I’ve used the…
They’re seemingly everywhere: they’re even in the subject line of the promotional emails I get from my car dealership nowadays. They’re such an established part…
Last week, the bill creating Ohio’s Cyber Reserve passed the legislature and headed to Governor DeWine for his signature. The Cyber Reserve will consist of…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #668: Cyberattacks are escalating, but so is cybersecurity vigilance
If you’re not familiar with the concept of deepfakes, get ready to get nervous. Imagine being able to use artificial intelligence and deep machine learning…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #667: Deepfakes aren’t going away–they’re getting better
OPLIN 4Cast #666: Social media tries (again) to clean up its act
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The rise of Instagram Influencers and other social media stars does not really surprise me. I grew up aware of people who were “famous for…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #666: Social media tries (again) to clean up its act
We all know that texting and driving don’t mix. Driving on the Pennsylvania turnpike this weekend, I saw at least one sign that said “THIS…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #665: Is technology the answer to distracted driving?
A few years ago, a library was having trouble implementing Umbrella OpenDNS at a branch. The trouble, we discovered, was that the branch’s ISP was,…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #664: Is this new option from Mozilla actually better for privacy?