A month ago, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai ordered phone companies to implement anti-robocall technologies or face regulatory action. Most carriers have responded by implementing STIR…
As it turns out, the changes to the order readout is probably the least of the those that are likely coming. Not just to McDonald’s, but to fast food in general. Surprisingly, the news is filled with how fast food tech is evolving.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #639: Fast food will soon be coming with a side of high-tech
When I read in the New York Times last week that, statistically, it was likely that I’d heard of TikTok and equally as likely that…
might be time for some governmental intervention, but it’s sure not going to be easy.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #637: Big Tech: Breaking up is (really) hard to do
This week, a friend said to me, “If Facebook fell into the sun about now, I’m not sure I’d be sad.” Personally, I was having…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #636: Facebook’s latest betrayal of your data
OPLIN 4Cast #635: The new Hololens brings improvements and controversies
Posted in 4cast, and Mixed reality
While we’ve likely become accustomed to at least the concepts of augmented and virtual realities, if not the actual devices, the newer idea of mixed…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #635: The new Hololens brings improvements and controversies
Last week, the non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI announced that they had built a neural network language model, GPT-2, that is so good at this game that OpenAI felt it would be irresponsible of them to make it available to others.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #634: Has artificial intelligence gotten *too* good?
Amazon is having quite a week. A good deal of it has been focused on the alleged sextortion of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos by The National Enquirer.…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #633: Amazon is all over the news right now
As headlines go, another story about Facebook in trouble over their mishandling of user data is “Dog Bites Man,” isn’t it? But when TechCrunch revealed…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #632: Apple disables Facebook’s spying app
Just two days ago, on January 28th, the U.S. recognized the 22nd annual occurrence of National Privacy Day. Didn’t even know there was such a…