You get to decide what you will accept an unknowable number of times every day. Will you wait in line at the grocery store or will you use the self checkout? Will you stay in your lane or switch to the open one beside you? Should you accept seeing ads Read more
My lawn looks like it has rained every day for the last three months. I may have cut more weeds today than grass, and the fungi in the mulched flowerbeds are as abundant as the attacks in my messaging apps. In this spam season phishing surge, if you have a Read more
Have you ever tried to access your bank account then sat and waited for a verification text message which never arrived? You’re not alone. I just dealt with this multiple times this week. And you’re not the problem. Come along as I explain why this happens, how you can avoid Read more
I met a friend for coffee a few months ago. They mentioned some of my earlier posts about online safety, then said something which has stuck with me like a poppyseed lodged in my gums: I don’t worry about my data. I just assume the bad guys have all my Read more
Google effectively just handed preteens the keys to a digital Ford F-150 and told parents it’s their responsibility to keep their kids safe. In an email to parents last week, as reported in The New York Times and The Verge, Google informed parents that children under the age of 13 Read more
How Andrej Karpathy approaches his digital hygiene makes emminent sense for the “…computer scientist renowned for his work in machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.” (source) You and I, though, are not founding members of OpenAI, or founders of Eureka Labs, an AI+Education company. And while we can learn Read more
The actual quote from Craig Johnson, the author of the Walt Longmire books, is “Stay calm, have courage, and wait for signs.” I love Johnson’s Longmire books. They are filled with wonderful writing, terrific characters, humor, alongside a smattering of Native American mysticism; well, some books more than others. They’re Read more
Why should you secure your Facebook account with two-factor authentication? Because you don’t want to have to post this: I’ve used Facebook since Jan. 19, 2008. More than 17 years of my memories and messages are sitting on Meta’s servers, and it could all be erased or exploited if a Read more
With a collection of skills used to send messages, make phone calls, play music, and control connected home devices, Amazon has sold 600 million Alexa-enabled devices since it launched in 2014. Alexa is a voice assistant with an “always on” microphone constantly listening for its wake word. Once heard, Alexa Read more
Technology is amazing. It helps us stay connected with loved ones. It enables scientific breakthroughs like Microsoft’s recent announcement of a new type of matter. And it makes it possible for more people than ever before to easily know more about us and to do more things with that information Read more