What perhaps differentiates this year, from so many others, is the even bigger emphasis on technology–accelerated by the pandemic, no doubt. But it’s the first school year where the only school supplies I’ll be buying will be a notebook and maybe a couple of pens…just in case.
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I hate carrying things around in my pockets—big collections of keys, jangling coins, a bulky phone case—but the worst for me is sitting on a…
Pre-pandemic, we had very strict boundaries on my teenage son’s screen time. He was allotted a certain time amount on school nights, with slightly more…
OPLIN 4Cast #761: Will the Olympic winners be determined by who had the most expensive tech?
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As the Olympic games begin in Tokyo, much of the focus has been on the technological innovations bringing an amazing amount of content to viewers,…
“Pegasus” is a spyware system developed to investigate and prevent terrorism and serious crime. Made by Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, it is sold only…
It’s no secret that most public libraries use Microsoft Windows for the vast majority of both staff and patron computing. In 2015, just as the…
Last week (so I could get the accumulated bonuses from winning “Words with Friends” games) I updated my iPad, and finally encountered that Identity for…
A couple of weeks ago, Columbus, Ohio completed the last year of a multi-million dollar grant from the Department of Transportation, meant to transform Columbus…
While we all wait breathlessly to see if the Hubble Space Telescope will pull through, there’s other news of robots continuing their march into our…
OPLIN 4Cast #755: This entertaining app is hot right now, but is it safe?
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When I first saw my friends posting these, I immediately found them fun and charming, and had to download the app and take it for a run. Only after did it occur to me that maybe this wasn’t the brightest thing to have done.