Breathtaking!

Way to go Google (Street View) for incorporating immersive-photos of Greenland into this service…

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YouTube Kids!

Let’s hope that Monday’s planned rollout is a great success (and not the troll-fest that YouTube itself has far too often devolved into being!)

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‘Seeing into Mobile’

The latest Snowden allegations regarding US/UK firms hacking SIM-cards is yet another Orwellian-example of the post-NSA world humanity finds itself experiencing (that’s also surreal regarding the degree that it is being largely accepted versus protested…)

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A New Low?

Lenovo’s pre-installing adware on their latest laptops / PC is seemingly another Orwellian-step in greater (consumer) surveillance period (versus the bogus notion of pop-ads based on browsing habits!)

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Happy Chinese New Year!

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Testing?

Perhaps Carnegie-Melon’s computer-glitch that sent 800 bogus letter of acceptance emails  calls into question… think about it, how would any given student feel if they thought they were accepted only to find out later (via email no less) that it was an error!@#$%^&*()

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No-Fly Zone…

As it now stands, FAA-rules will prohibit ‘Amazon and you’re drone‘ (i.e., the firm’s plans to deliver with said medium) to become a reality…

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The ‘Digital’ Dark Age?

Akin to how NASA mistakenly allowed their Apollo Space Mission data to not be read (due to hardware / software obsolescence) Vint Cerf (an ‘net pioneer) has raised concerns of a parallel event for today’s data.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Happy Friday the 13th!

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