We’ve covered facial recognition in the 4Cast before, but this week we’re taking another look, after Amazon’s facial recognition wrongly identified 28 members of Congress…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #605: The use of facial recognition is getting creepier
Yes, I know I wrote about “fake news” just two weeks ago. But there have been some interesting developments to watch. Last week, Facebook CEO Mark…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #604: Holding ‘social’ media to media company standards
In 2006, a commercial from IBM made waves (and actually is stuck in my memory over a decade later) because it depicted a man seemingly…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #603: The future of retail doesn’t include cashiers
In his keynote at a PLA Convention a few years ago, Pew’s Director of Internet and Technology research Lee Rainie talked about the trust the public places…
OPLIN 4Cast #601: The (very) dark side of smart home devices
Posted in 4cast, and Internet of Things
New technologies have always had pros and cons. After all, technology of any sort is only a tool, and it is how it is used…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #601: The (very) dark side of smart home devices
Last month, the FBI advised everyone to reboot their home routers — later upgrading their recommendation to update your firmware and do a factory reset — in an…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #600: Your home network may be under attack
Last week, I attended an online conference about blockchain and libraries. The vast majority of the material presented was either explanatory or speculative in nature;…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #599: We may have reached peak hype around blockchain
At their spring developer conferences, both Google and Apple announced initiatives and tools to improve our digital wellness, to help ease the addictions to our…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #598: Wellbeing goes digital and big companies rake in the cash
Google made major news headlines this week, when it decided to withdraw from Project Maven, after its contract expires next year. This partnership provides AI…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #597: The drone era is here, for better or for worse
We’ve already talked about facial recognition this month in the 4cast, so I’m not going to cover that again. Still, there’s been a lot of…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #596: Your phone’s location data…leaked