Rotary Phones Can you Imagine? Kids today will never know the pleasure of slamming down a phone in anger! For a look at how today’s kids interact with an old-school rotary phone, click on the video below: Rotary dial phones are the earliest user-controlled phone to be mass produced. Before them, a user…
‘FACEBOOK and FAKE NEWS’ Zuckerberg Asked to Answer Facebook felt significant backlash in 2017, with many expressing discomfort about the social media giant’s oversight measures in preventing inaccurate posts. With the cloud of potential Russian meddling in that most democratic of institutions—the 2016 Presidential election—2017 found Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg announcing changes, including: Stronger…
So virtually everyone knows now that the FCC has voted to rollback internet regulations put in place by the FCC during the Obama administration. This change is generally regarded as bad for consumers. Why? Well, let’s take a look at the three main aspects of ‘net neutrality’ that just got repealed: 1. Internet Service…
The resignation of Senator Al Franken is only the latest instance in a chain of fallout from claims of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct that has been swiftly growing ever since claims of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct surfaced on Oct. 5. Many of the initial accusations originally focused on Hollywood and the greater media…
It’s a story reminiscent of the 2015 San Bernardino shootings. In that case, not only were 14 people left dead, but FBI investigators were left deadlocked with Apple. The FBI wanted help with the encryption in order to gain access to gunman Syed Farook’s iPhone 5C. Apple didn’t want to give it to them. The…
An unlikely hero and the importance of being up to date. You’ve probably heard about the massive cyber-attack this past weekend that successfully crippled more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, including more than 20% of hospitals in the UK alone. The WannaCry malware spread among Windows computers, infecting and then encrypting users’ files, effectively…
It goes without saying that you don’t want to be in the news for the wrong reason. And if you lived in the California towns of Marysville, Hallwood, Olivehurst/Linda, Plumas Lake, Gridley, Live Oak, Yuba City, or Wheatland you got that unfortunate experience recently. If those names don’t sound familiar to you, here’s one that…
On Tuesday, February 7th, the Army approved the construction of the last mile and a half of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). That action came two weeks after President Donald Trump ordered an accelerated review of the pipeline project—a reversal from the Obama administration’s block of the pipeline amidst global protests two months earlier. The Dakota…
Big data may be a relatively new term, but what it describes is already critical to business: large volumes of data that are the lifeblood of many enterprises. Collecting this information is important – it can be analyzed for insights in to past performances as well as real-time activity, helping decision-makers update/modify their business strategy…
In 2013, the worst cybersecurity intelligence breach in U.S. history happened. The target of the hack was the White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In today’s atmosphere of fear over data breaches and email hacks, what’s being done to protect the sensitive personal data housed in government networks? What lessons have we learned from…