Like many of you I watched last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, and I was struck by the fact that they seemed to be more about the Democrats fighting with Republicans to see which party could corrupt the Supreme Court more effectively than they were about senators doing their jobs. What bothers me most about […]
Smart speakers are becoming a more common platform for controlling connected entertainment due to a rapid increase in popularity and ease of use. Household penetration of smart speakers is expected to reach 47 percent among U.S. broadband households by 2022, based on Parks Associates estimates. New entrants in the connected consumer electronics market, including Samsung, […]
An interview with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, conducted earlier this month by Walter Isaacson for Amanpour & Co. on PBS, is worth watching. Ginni is one of the most successful CEOs in the United States. One of the questions that jumped out at me had to do with why the number of female CEOs has […]
Every child who’s ever played a board game understands that the act of rolling dice yields an unpredictable result. In fact, that’s why children’s board games use dice in the first place: to ensure a random outcome that is (from a macro point of view, at least) about the same likelihood each time the die […]
Amazon will unveil eight new Alexa-powered devices for the car and home before the end of the year, CNBC reported Monday. They include a microwave oven, an amplifier, a receiver, a subwoofer and an in-car gadget. Amazon is expected to reveal some of the devices at an event later this month. All the devices will […]
Google took on French lawyers at the European Union Court of Justice this week, in an effort to fend off expansion of the EU’s “right to be forgotten” judgment. The EU’s attempts to broaden the scope of that judgment would be “completely unenvisagable,” and it could result in impositions on the values of different countries […]
Apple on Wednesday unveiled three new iPhones at an event held in the Steve Jobs Theatre on its Cupertino, California, campus. Along with the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and iPhone XR, Apple introduced the Apple Watch 4. “Our mission started with personalizing technology for the desktop,” CEO Tim Cook told the audience, and it’s […]
It should be pretty clear by now that the level of effort devoted to manipulating our opinions is unprecedented at the moment. Granted, a lot of this has to do with the fact that most of the “free” online services we use aren’t free at all. They are trading our ability to make measured opinions […]
As summer winds die down here’s hoping one of the season’s most ridiculous and unnecessary fads goes with them. Bird and Lime e-scooters — the vehicles for the two rival companies’ Mobility as a Service scheme — are just the latest twist on the foot-powered Razor Scooters that took America by storm in 2000. Unlike […]
Bias is a nasty beast. A market research class I took in graduate school focused on the identification and elimination of bias. My final paper was on an intentionally biased piece of research. It was far easier to introduce bias and then talk about the bias than it would have been to attempt to do […]