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…
Author: Don Yarman
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…
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.
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…
There are two big breaking stories about exploits involving DNS — Domain Name Service, the “phonebook of the internet.” One involves a type of spamming…
OPLIN 4Cast #628: Voice assistants are spreading like a fungus
Posted in 4cast, and Voice-activated assistants
I was a toddler when Star Trek first aired, and I’m told that I was a fan from the beginning. (My sister eventually learned to fake-faint…
I was blown away a few years back when I read about the OpenDyslexic font here in the OPLIN 4cast. It fascinated me how making the letters…
I used to switch to new web browsers as often as I’d change brands of shampoo. My old browser would start to bog down, and…
Since the first Macintosh came out and revolutionized how we interact with our computers, there has been this truism: if you want the Apple software…