Starting on June 5, 2025, police in Pennsylvania can pull over a driver seen using a mobile phone. Whether they’re scrolling or texting, reading an email or making a call, thanks to “Paul Miller’s Law,” named in honor of a man killed in 2010 by a distracted driver, a phone-using Read more…
“I love my scanners,” said the vendor at Arts Fest in Harrisburg’s Riverfront Park Saturday morning. “So easy.” Without pulling a credit card or cash out of my wallet, in about 10 seconds I’d paid for a unique candle in a concrete bowl which will double as a planter once Read more…
I hope you never decide to set up an online dating profile. It’s a humbling experience, fraught with introspection and self doubt. How much do you share? In which selfie do you look less like a serial killer? While I’m not in the market for a new companion, considering the Read more…
It had been a rough few days. Back at the desk after a lovely week of vacation, tasks had piled up and new projects waited impatiently for attention. I struggled to string together coherent, cogent thoughts. Ping. A Teams alert. Ping. A Notion alert. Ping. A new email notification. On Read more…
We have a week to file our taxes which should be plenty of time. And it will be, provided you remember the email address you used to sign in to the tax filing software last year, then remember which password you used and where you stored the W-2 form you 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…
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…
