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Today’s technology requires businesses to be resilient and flexible
The majority of our clients have principals or senior team members who have been working with computers in a business capacity for 10 years or more, and some more than 20 years. Just about all of them have asked me if I think technology has become easier or harder to use recently. Without hesitation I
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Hate increases on Twitter under Musk’s management
There was a time, many years ago, when Elon Musk was something of a celebrity in the technology industry, to the point where many folks were calling him the “real life” Tony Stark. This was due in no small part to his association with groundbreaking (at the time) technology companies Tesla and SpaceX and billionaire
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Do you need to worry about juice jacking?
I initially distrusted this bit of recent news because of how it was disseminated. Twitter still has considerable reach for widespread messaging, but it has lost any trustworthiness as far as I am concerned since being taken over by a billionaire with questionable judgement hellbent on running the platform into the ground. Doing as one
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Quantum Engineers or Wizards?
One of my favorite story tropes is where the main character is magically transported back in time, enabling them to use their “modern-day” scientific knowledge to appear powerful and gain advantage over the relatively primitive denizens of their new surroundings. The most famous, well-known example would be the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, but
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Double-edged Sword of Automation
The news is aflutter with Artificial Intelligence bots doing things like writing job descriptions, college essays, passing Bar exams and apparently various other menial tasks that we humans would clearly rather have someone else doing, especially if that someone else doesn’t need to get paid, or at least paid a living wage. Both Microsoft and
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More bad news from LastPass
If you were confused about what exactly was stolen in 2022’s LastPass breach – join the club. I think much of the confusion is stemming from the damage control LastPass is attempting to do around their massive data exposure that happened in August and was revealed to the public in December. We know that much
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