We have done a number of posts lately about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and efforts to make AI bots communicate more like humans, even to the…
OPLIN 4cast #495: Talking back
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We have done a number of posts lately about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and efforts to make AI bots communicate more like humans, even to the…
What are electronic communication transactional records? Well… that’s actually a pretty good question. The answer starts with National Security Letters (NSLs), secret demands for information…
Everyone seems to be getting excited about artificial intelligence (AI) these days. As Bill Gates said last week, “The dream is finally arriving.” And people…
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This blog tends to shy away from the “big” tech stories that have been covered in numerous other blogs and news feeds. In the case…
If not, you have a problem. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has just released data collected in July 2015 from about 53,000 households…
A couple of weeks ago, we got a glimpse inside the anti-malware/antivirus (AV) industry, when Google announced a change to the user policies for VirusTotal,…
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OK, all you librarians, it’s time to be brutally honest: You don’t really have a very high opinion of romance novels, do you? At best,…
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Although libraries provide free access to a great deal of information about the workings of our government, access to some information is easier than others.…
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No, it’s not the title of a sci-fi novel. Section 508 is a 1986 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, mandating that information technologies…
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What’s all this stuff we’re hearing now about bots? To be more precise, the buzz lately has been about chatbots, which seem to have stolen…