Collaborate Disseminate
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic turned many office workers into work-from-home (WFH) experts, the trend toward working without having to commute was clear.
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Technology advancements have made it relatively easy for many employees to carry out their regular job duties from the comfort of their home.
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Plato once sagely observed, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
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That advice resonates today, even as we deepen our reliance on number crunching — … (more…)
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Today’s children are online at a young age, for many hours, and in more ways than ever before. As adults, we know that bad online decisions can have negative or dangerous effects for years to come.
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Finally, Facebook and Twitter muzzled Donald Trump, preventing him from using his favorite online bully pulpits to spread disinformation. It only took Trump inciting a failed coup d’état that cost five lives.
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How did we get to this level of disinformation? How did we, the citizens of the United States of America, become so intensely divided?
It’s tempting to place the lion’s share of the blame on feckless political leaders and facile … (more…)
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Most of time we take for granted the degree to which fundamental components of civilization are steeped in mathematics.
Everything from science and engineering to poetry and music rely on numeric calculations. Albert Einstein once observed that “pure m… Continue reading STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favor… Continue reading MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems
What do wildfires and credential stuffing have in common?
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