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Technology News for Busy People

I regularly receive calls from clients, family and friends that follow a familiar pattern, “My internet is slow|broken|acting weird, and yes, I just rebooted my device.” My cohorts and I in the technology industry will take full credit for finally ingraining in our clients the (oftentimes) self-healing mantra of “reboot, reboot, reboot,” but when powering

Despite the fact that fixing broken technology and fighting internet pollution puts food on the table at Casa C2, I don’t take (much) pleasure in delivering technology tales of woe and doom to you, so it’s refreshing when I can update you on a technology that I am keenly interested in, especially when it intersects with my

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Companies jumping on the cryptocurrency hype train is relatively old news. You’ve all heard about companies changing their name to some variant of “blockchain” just to cash in on the trading frenzy surrounding the hot new tech, regardless of whether they had anything at all to do with the industry or technology. As a nice follow

Cryptocurrency mining seems to be all the rage right now. While it wouldn’t be unusual for my clients in the finance industry to be keeping close tabs on technology’s “hottest” trend, I’ve been asked about cryptocurrency by just about everyone, including stay-at-home parents and retirees, mostly because a younger family member is either an avid

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After months of denying it had any significant role in the 2016 Presidential elections, Facebook finally admitted that its platform had been exploited by Russian propaganda agencies with the express intent of spreading “fake news” and creating division among Facebook users. Five months later, it seems they haven’t made any progress on this front, and have

Over the years since the internet has come to dominate the technology and business landscape, I’ve often compared the growing tide of malware and general bad behavior found online to pollution. Like its physical manifestation, the source of internet pollution can’t be tied to a single cause or factor or even several of them. The

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