Technology

A year and a half with Alexa

Overall, if success means that my family regularly uses Amazon’s voice-enabled concierge, then yes — this product is a success. If success means that we’ve used Alexa to purchase things from Amazon, then the answer is also yes. We’ve spent about $30 on spontaneous music…

A Typical Morning in Silicon Valley

It’s Friday. You wake up to your alarm app that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you up at…

Managed services killed DevOps

DevOps, as we know it, is dead. Perhaps not many people agree with me, but the age of DevOps is just…

I Have A Confession To Make About My Rift

I have a confession to make: my Rift CV1 arrived 10 days ago and I haven’t opened it…

AI’s Future in Work and Industry

Note: This is the first post of a longer series exploring the role machine intelligence will play in the backbone industries that constitute the vast majority of global GDP. In this first post, I will situate the present age in historical and theoretical context, before…

Help Your Grandma With Her Kindle, Dammit!

the Digital Divide Between Generations

Why going from College->Career = Risky

Have you considered starting your own company?

by Matthieu McClintock, Serial Entrepreneur & Product Manager at Solodev

The automation — job loss fallacy

For years, technology has been viewed as a substitute for labor. Employing a robot is viewed as ‘not…

Regulatory Reporting for Financial Institutions: The Technology Challenge — Hexanika

While we have previously analyzed the impact of regulations on banks due to various key issues (see related articles at the end of the blog), implementation of new technology and the…

On Tapping with Thumbs

Tapping on screens ain’t so fancy. It’s pretty darn video-gamish. Something I’d never thought would ever help me in life. I used to lament the waste of muscular strength. My parents, I’m sure, did too. Nothing is worse than sitting in a spine-curved-cross-legged hump on the ground with…

In Between

“The future ain’t what it used to be,” observed Yogi Berra, capturing as only he could the ambivalence of change.

Berra’s wry observation aptly describes the mood in the US. We are mired in a Tale of Two Cities narrative, a clash between the seemingly exponential growth in…

(5) Expectations

In past installments here it was suggested that the speed of recent technology-driven change (as much as its magnitude) has had a…

Google Logo Zentangle

Inspired by my 10-day Zentangle practice, now I want to find opportunities to continue this little fun activity in my…

5 Places where you can buy VR headsets in Pakistan

List of online stores where you can buy VR HMDs easily in Pakistan

Diversity isn’t about hiring equal number of people base on gender or ethnicity. The best candidate should get the job.

Diversity IS about giving everyone equal opportunity to be that best candidate.

LIFE WITHOUT INTERNET

“I gotta do something mom.I am getting addicted to that wretched phone.” So I decided I will not be using my…

Tech to End Domestic Violence Against Women in Moldova using SMS Services, Mobile and Web Application

Ewaste: A synthetic soup of cast off tech poisoning the world

Every business has one. The junk closet or storage area where old computers, once lusted-after-now-thrown-over laptops, boxes of outdated phones, broken keyboards with missing e’s or shattered space bars and, of course, box…

Shopping make-up virtually

Snapchat face filters have take over for a long time. From the screaming bunny to the licking dog; its fun to…

In the old days, when telephones had yet to be invented, the general store served as the center of communication.

It was here that folks would come to resupply. Dry goods, tools, and such. But, a forgotten aspect was the human connection. People did not just come in to but stuff and go home. They also came to here the latest…

A Quick Interview with a Female Journalist

Journalism is such a big career choice for students nowadays. Every day we are subjected to some form of journalism or media, be it the radio in your car or kitchen, the newspaper you buy every evening or happen to have in the home. According to the American Press Institute…

Tech and More

Its around 4:00 AM in the morning. I am trying to stay awake as I need to catch an early morning flight. I have been thinking about blogging my thoughts about technology, products, ideas, philosophy, music, dance. Blogging would be a way for me to give my thoughts a concrete shape. I have some…

Derek Westerman’s World Record: 25 Hours in VR

How to Increase NH82801HO SL9MM Page Sales?

Selling Chipsets on an online e-commerce platform has its own benefits, not only you have less competitors, you also have very good profit rates. No doubt it is a profitable niche, but still it doesn’t mean that anyone can dive and make his revenue…

Oops Samuel… n * log(n) > n for all n > base-of-the-log.

I’d prefer the O(n) algorithm ☺

Thanks for the share!

on change

most people fear change with the exception of change that:

• they make themselves (however bad it sounds to someone else)
• makes them money

The issue is still with us.Twitter devs had one job.Because you need to read every new tweet immediately. That’s how they annoy.We should start a campaign.

The great thing is, any fan can be a produser. Fans can create fanfictions to reshape scenes in their preferred form. The only limit for these creators is their imagination. I can understand why fans would prefer the original media to shape the story to the way they hoped, but since some fanfics have thousands of readers, they are not an uncommon…

Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: The Unstoppable Facebook
 By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC

 The (relative) decline of Apple, the ascendance of Amazon and the continuing dominance of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network.

 Published: April 30, 2016 at 06:00PM

 via NYT Technology…