So much for a business-friendly White House. The feds are going after big-tech over antitrust concerns. The DOJ will take on Apple and Google while the FTC investigates Amazon and Facebook. Is it just me or does that sound a lot like the Mafia carving up old Manhattan? Conspicuous is[…] Read On
This FOX Business column, “Don’t Buy an Electric Car,” got a lot of attention back in 2013, and not all the good kind. Thought it’d be fun to revisit and see how it’s holding up, what’s changed, yada yada. You be the judge. I live in California, home to all[…] Read On
When a crime is allegedly committed one of the first things police do is check video footage to try to identify the perpetrator. If they succeed in getting a good image, they now have a pretty good chance of IDing the perp, courtesy off big improvements in facial recognition technology[…] Read On
The SAT adversity score controversy reminded me of a story I’ve never told you folks – how a bizarre series of events forever altered the course of my post-collegiate career. The winter of 1977-78 saw the Northeastern United States get pummeled by a series of historic storms. One of them,[…] Read On
Jack Dorsey sounds like one messed up dude, IMO. The CEO of Twitter and Square went on some health wacko’s podcast to talk about his bizarro biohacks that include eating only once a day in the evening (a protein and veggies, that’s it) except on weekends when he doesn’t eat[…] Read On
After decades of hype over artificial intelligence, machines still aren’t very smart. Despite claims to the contrary, nobody can predict when that will change, least of all IBM CEO Ginni Rometty — or Big Blue’s supercomputer Watson. Rometty said in a recent CNBC interview that IBM’s AI can predict which employees[…] Read On
The only way to impact the world around you and change the outcome of your life is by the choices you make. Everything else is out of your control. So what happens when there are too many choices? What then? I hear this from young people all the time. The[…] Read On